Albrecht von Wrochem

Albrecht Paul Ernst Karl von Wrochem (born December 10, 1880 in Trier , † June 20, 1944 in Hamburg ) was a German administrative lawyer .

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Born in Trier as the son of a major, von Wrochem graduated from high school in Münster in 1902 . He then initially studied medicine at the University of Freiburg , switched to law in 1903 and attended universities in Berlin , Kiel and Münster. In 1905 he passed the first state examination in law in Hamm . After receiving his doctorate in 1908 jur. in Leipzig he passed the second state examination in Berlin in 1910. From 1911 to 1914 he worked as a research assistant at the seminar for public law and colonial law at the Hamburg Colonial Institute . During this time he organized meetings on colonial and insurance law. The administration of the city of Hamburg employed him in January 1914. There he worked for a short time in the first section of the high school authorities and from March of the same year in the insurance office. Five months later he received the title of assessor .

During the First World War von Wrochem did military service. In 1917 the city of Hamburg assigned him administrative tasks for the scientific institutions of the 1st section of the high school authority. A year later promoted to the government council, he rose to government director of the university authorities in 1928. During the 1930s he participated in this position in a committee for the training of religious teachers and taught canon law in the winter semester of 1932/33. From 1919 to 1930 he taught as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Science for Church, Constitutional and Administrative Law and then received a position as honorary professor. His lectures were very popular. Werner von Melle described von Wrochem in his memoirs as an experienced and extremely competent university professor who was very committed to the educational institution.

Although he was considered "national" and entered the Stahlhelm in June 1933 , von Wrochem lost his teaching position at Hamburg University in May 1933. The main reason for this is said to have been that he did not agree to display the National Socialist flag on the university building on March 8th. Therefore, the National Socialist German Student Union allegedly prepared to kidnap von Wrochem, but could not carry out the plans. After that, the organization campaigned to dismiss the university professor. Despite several advocates within the university senate, von Wrochem had to change jobs several times for political reasons. On May 23, 1933 he went to the labor authority as provisional government director, in November to the financial administration, in April 1934 to the police authority and in the same month as government director to the state authority.

In the following years, Mayor Carl Vincent Krogmann took action against von Wrochem. The lawyer had falsely declared that he had already entered the Stahlhelm in 1929 and made false statements about his religious affiliation. Krogmann wrote that von Wrochem had joined the Protestant church after leaving the Catholic Church in 1926. Although von Wrochem often took part in church services in the St. Gertrudenkirche and its communion, Krogmann's assertion was not true. Nevertheless, he applied for all of Wrochem's retirement benefits to be revoked due to the alleged suppression of documents. On the basis of the law to restore the civil service , von Wrochem had to retire on April 30, 1936 after a first instance decision. In December 1936, the court awarded him a third of his retirement benefits for the first three years. In 1937 he lost his teaching license due to the law. Von Wrochem appealed the judgment and obtained an acquittal in January 1937. Since the dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science had explicitly objected, von Wrochem was not allowed to give any further lectures in the summer semester of 1937 despite the judgment. Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann gave instructions to completely revoke von Wrochem's license to teach in July 1937. Senator Karl Julius Witt and Rector Adolf Rein had previously been critical of Wrochems' other teaching activities. During the Second World War he did military service as an interpreter in France.

Von Wrochem was active as a secretary in the Hamburg Scientific Foundation from 1917 , which consciously appointed him to its board of trustees after his dismissal in 1936. Von Wrochem stood up for the interests of the facility until the end of life. Kürschner's Deutscher Schehrten-Kalender mentioned von Wrochem, who died in June 1944, for the last time in 1935 and did not include him in the necrology of the first post-war edition in 1950.

literature

• Rainer Hering: Wrochem, Albrecht von . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 380-381 .