Adolf Schlettwein

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Carl August Fritz Emil Georg Adolf Schlettwein (born May 24, 1872 in Dömitz , † December 18, 1939 in Wismar ) was a German lawyer and civil servant.

Life and activity

Adolf Schlettwein was one of the sons of the bailiff Carl Schlettwein in Dömitz. After attending school, Schlettwein studied law at the universities of Tübingen and Rostock. In Tübingen he became a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen in 1894 . After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90 , he became a lieutenant in the reserve.

On March 11, 1903, he was appointed court assessor in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In the same year he joined the colonial service from the Mecklenburg judicial service . Between 1904 and 1908 he was a district judge in Togo ; his brother Curt Schlettwein succeeded him in Lomé . During this time, a waterfall newly discovered in the Togo Mountains was named after him as the Adolf Schlettwein Fall. Subsequently, from 1909 to 1913, Schlettwein officiated as district judge, then district officer in Apia , Samoa .

In 1913, Schlettwein was appointed provisional first speaker in German New Guinea . After the beginning of World War I , he was first assigned to serve in the General Staff. From 1915 he did front service as a company commander with the rank of captain of the Landwehr in the Landwehr Infantry Regiment 24 .

In 1918 Schlettwein was transferred to the service of the Reich Colonial Office, where he took over the post of advisor to the government of German New Guinea.

In the course of the November Revolution of 1918, Friedrich Ebert took Schlettwein as a lecturer in the Reich Chancellery , where he remained active until autumn 1919. In September 1919 he then moved to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry of the Interior , where he remained until his provisional retirement in 1925. During this time he was promoted to Ministerial Counselor (1920) and Ministerial Director (1921).

After his reactivation in 1929, Schlettwein was again active as ministerial director in Mecklenburg-Schwerin until 1932.

In addition to his work in the civil service, Schlettwein distinguished himself through publications on legal topics, in particular on colonial law. For example, he wrote the section on Togo in the two-volume work The Native Law, edited by Erich Schultz-Ewert and Leonhard Adam . Morals and customary rights of the natives of the former German colonies in Africa and the South Seas from 1929.

Since 1918 he was with Marie Anna Emma Hedwig, geb. Kuhrt (1888–1979) married. In addition to two daughters, the couple had a son, who later became an expert on southern Africa and founder Carl Schlettwein .

Awards

Fonts

  • Togo, Cameroon, South-West Africa, the South Sea colonies (= indigenous law, volume 2). Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1929.

literature

  • Britt Ziemsen, Daniela Schlettwein: The life of Adolf Schlettwein 1872-1939. [without publisher], [without location] 2009.
  • Bettina Zurstrassen: "Creating a piece of German soil": Colonial officials in Togo 1884-1914 (= Campus Research, Volume 931). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38638-6 , also: Dissertation, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, 2005 under the title: The management and control of the colonial administration and its officials using the example of "Protected Area" of Togo.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8727 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 127 , 522
  3. ↑ Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army 1903, p. 600
  4. ^ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar 1904, p. 216
  5. ↑ Deutsches Kolonialblatt 19 (1908), p. 279
personal data
SURNAME Schlettwein, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlettwein, Carl August Fritz Emil Georg Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Doemitz
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1939
Place of death Wismar