Wolfgang Pohle
Wolfgang Pohle (born November 28, 1903 in Erfurt , † August 27, 1971 in Munich ) was a German business lawyer, industrialist and politician of the CDU , later the CSU .
Life
Pohle studied law at the universities in Göttingen , where he was a member of the Corps Hannovera , as well as in Leipzig and Heidelberg . In 1925 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and became a trainee lawyer, later an assessor in Erfurt. Pohle began his activity in the central associations of the Ruhr mining industry and in 1940 became chief legal advisor, later general representative and 1954–59 member of the board of management of Mannesmann AG . From 1959 he was a general agent of Friedrich Flick KG and from 1965 its personally liable partner. As a lawyer, he defended 1946-48 German industrialists at the Nuremberg follow-up processes : the Krupp process was Friedrich von Bulow his client, he was back in the Flick Trial and represented Hermann Reusch as witnesses at the IG Farben process .
Pohle was married to Ingeborg Kölle, their daughter is the photographer Karin Székessy .
Political party
Pohle joined the NSDAP in 1933 . After the war, Pohle was originally a member of the CDU. After moving to Bavaria , he joined the CSU. He was treasurer of the CSU.
MP
Pohle was a member of the German Bundestag for a total of 10 years from 1953 to 1957 and from 1965 until his death in 1971. From 1969 on he represented the district of Kempten (Allgäu) in parliament. His specialty was budget and financial policy. From 1965 until his death he headed the budget, tax and finance working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .
From December 10, 1953 to October 29, 1957, he was also a member of the European Parliament .
Awards
Pohle had been the recipient of the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star since 1968 . He was also bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit , the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , the Grand Cross of the Cisnero Order (Spain) and the Almerito Grand Cross with shoulder ribbon and star of the Knightly Order of the Holy Grave in Jerusalem .
Fonts
- with Werner Mansfeld: Commentary on the Reichsknappschaftsgesetz. 1931.
Literature and Sources
- Barbara Gerstein: Wolfgang Pohle. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 587 f. ( Digitized version ).
- The Pohles estate is kept in the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland Department , where it forms part RWN 0218.
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 649-650.
- Hubert Seliger: Political lawyers? The defenders of the Nuremberg trials. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-2360-7 , p. 549.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Pohle in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Tape. 9 (= Green Series Volume 9). United States Government Printing Office, District of Columbia 1950, p. 6 ( ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: mazal.org )).
- ^ Pohle (Düsseldorf), Wolfgang, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Pabst to Pytlik] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 948 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 221 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Werner Biermann: Strauss rise and fall of a family. Rowohlt Verlag, 2006, p. 231 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pohle, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business lawyer, industrialist and politician of the (CDU, CSU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1971 |
| Place of death | Munich |