Conrad Heese

Conrad Heese (born February 12, 1872 in Stargard in Pomerania , † December 1, 1945 in Görlitz ) was a lawyer and counselor .

Life

He studied in Berlin Law and married as Assessor Elisabeth Hartig in Hannover . He then worked as a lawyer in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Königswinter . In 1907 he settled in Görlitz. Conrad Heese was a captain in the First World War , was wounded and received the Iron Cross 1st Class in 1917 .

He was appointed a notary after the war and a judicial councilor in 1920. He rebuilt his practice in Görlitz and lived at Jakob-Böhme-Straße 12.

After his expulsion from the eastern part of the city in June 1945, he lived with his wife on a makeshift basis in his office in Görlitz on Marienplatz .

Services

As a Prussian lawyer, he was a politically incorruptible legal person and in the period before 1945 had kept any political arbitrariness out of his legal practice and always paid attention to compliance with general human rights . When the cannon thunder of the front approaching from the east could be heard in Görlitz at the beginning of February 1945 and hundreds of thousands of Silesian refugees marched across the western Silesian city , Conrad Heese began his diary .

His diary records the political and ethnic division of the more than 900 year old city of Görlitz. Likewise, what the Soviet city commander, Colonel of the Red Army, A. Nesterow, appearing with his staff on the western bank of the Neisse at the end of May 1945, shouts to the Polish soldiers: "Not this Neisse - mistake!"

His diary entries ended on November 24, 1945. Due to his physical condition, weakened by malnutrition and unusual physical exertion, he was unable to resist his cold. He died of pleurisy on December 1, 1945 in Görlitz.

literature

• From the diary of Justizrat Conrad Heese, Görlitz 1945 , Oldenburg - Görlitz, 2002 ISBN 978-3-00-025160-3 , 2nd edition 2008,