Max Kolter

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Max Kolter (born January 16, 1900 in Luttom , West Prussia , † December 27, 1945 in Jena ) was a Thuringian politician ( center , CDU ) and in 1945 briefly 3rd Vice President of the Thuringian state administration as well as the first Thuringian CDU state chairman.

Life

Kolter was born as Max Serowicki . After 1933 he took his mother's maiden name, Kolter. After graduating from high school in Heiligenstadt, Thuringia, in 1922 , Kolter earned his living as a miner and factory worker to finance his studies. He studied law in Göttingen , Halle and Münster . During this time he joined the Christian trade unions and in 1926 joined the Center Party. It was not until 1938 that Kolter finished his studies in Halle with a degree in economics. He then worked in various professional positions, for example at the Reich Commissioner for Pricing in Berlin , at the government's price monitoring office in Poznan and at the price office of the Thuringian Ministry of Economics in Weimar . During this time he was in 1944 with the thesis "The classical theory of wages and wage formation in the state social orderly economic" Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

Kolter experienced the end of the war in Weimar. As early as April 26, 1945, he was appointed to the political advisory council of the provisional Weimar Mayor, to which the Reich and state authorities in Thuringia were subordinate to an order of the American military government of April 19, 1945. After Hermann Brill had been entrusted with the management of the business of the Thuringian State Ministry (state government) on May 7, 1945, he appointed Kolter on May 19, 1945 as acting head of the previous Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs. On June 21, 1945, Brill appointed Kolter, in his current role as District President for the Province of Thuringia, as Government Director of the new State Office for Agriculture and Forestry in the first Thuringian post-war government.

After the change of occupation, the Soviet military administration in Thuringia (SMATh) set up a new state administration on July 16, 1945, under the direction of Rudolf Paul . Kolter became 3rd Vice President and again took over the State Office for Agriculture and Forestry. As a Christian trade unionist and former center member, he represented the future spectrum of Christian parties, alongside Ernst Busse (KPD) and Georg Appell (SPD) as other vice-presidents. The Thuringian CDU was only founded on July 22, 1945 in Weimar. Kolter was elected first state chairman at this founding meeting.

On November 5, 1945, Kolter was dismissed from the government on the orders of the head of the SMATh, Colonel General Tschuikow . Officially, the dismissal was justified with a lack of supervision by his authority, a staff consisting of 96% “Nazi elements”, and sabotage. At the same time, however, Kolter was also in poor health at this point. This led to his being admitted to the Jena University Clinic , where he was under Soviet guard until his death and died on December 27, 1945.

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SURNAME Kolter, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thuringian politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Luttom
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1945
Place of death Jena