Alfred Dedekind

Alfred Richard Julius Dedekind (born April 22, 1875 in Wolfenbüttel , † March 20, 1947 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) was a German lawyer , ministerial official and politician ( BNP ).

Life

Alfred Dedekind was born as the son of the lawyer and later Braunschweig regional court president Adolf Dedekind . He attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig, where u. a. Karl Steinacker , Heinrich Jasper and Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg were among his classmates and passed the Abitur there at Michaelis in 1893. He then completed a law degree in Heidelberg and did military service as a one-year volunteer . In 1906 he entered the service of the Duchy of Braunschweig as a civil servant , had worked in the State Ministry from 1914 and in 1916 became chairman of the Braunschweig State Food Office. In 1922 he was promoted to Ministerial Counselor.

Dedekind joined the Welfisch- oriented Braunschweig-Lower Saxony Party (BNP) and was elected to the Braunschweig State Assembly in 1920, from which the Braunschweig State Parliament later emerged. At first he was a member of the parliamentary group of the Braunschweigische Landes Wahlverband and after its dissolution in May 1922 became a member of the parliamentary group of the civil association (BV). On July 21, 1922, he resigned from the BNP and the parliamentary group because he did not support the anti-social democratic stance of the civil association. He was a non-attached MP until he left parliament in 1924.

At the end of the 1920s, Dedekind supported an imperial reform to create a state of Lower Saxony . After the DNVP submitted an application to the state parliament in 1929 to incorporate Braunschweig into Prussia , it published the article The enemy stands on the right in Vorwärts , which politically removed him even further from the bourgeois camp.

Dedekind was appointed district director of the Blankenburg district in 1931 as the successor to Kuno Rieke . Due to his negative attitude towards National Socialism, he was given early retirement at the end of 1933 for political reasons. During the time of National Socialism he was a member of the Confessing Church .

Alfred Dedekind was married to Hedwig von Veltheim (1886–1977) and had five children.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 78–79.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ducal New High School in Braunschweig: Annual report of the Ducal New High School in Braunschweig. From Easter 1893 to Easter 1894. Johann Heinrich Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig, 1894, p. 19.