Anton Wallroth

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Anton Wallroth (born August 14, 1876 in Birkenfeld , † February 23, 1962 in Lübeck ) was a German politician in the German National People's Party , district administrator of the Flensburg-Land district and government president of the province of Schleswig-Holstein .

Life

Anton Wallroth was the son of the lawyer Peter Wallroth (1844–1895), who at the time of his birth was a public prosecutor in Birkenfeld in Oldenburg and later became a district judge in Bad Schwartau . The Eutin superintendent Anton Friedrich Christoph Wallroth was his grandfather. He studied administrative law. On October 28, 1910 he became district administrator of the Flensburg-Land district. Wallroth was considered a capable administrative officer and gained great trust among the rural population during the First World War . As an excellent specialist, he remained in office during the revolutionary period of 1918/19 . Wallroth maintained exemplary contact with his superiors and managed to ensure that the Flensburg district was always provided with sufficient financial resources.

In 1919/20 Wallroth played a leading role in the “voting campaign” in Schleswig-Holstein over membership of the German Empire or Denmark. He worked on the German Committee, which was in charge of all German activities, and he was one of the sponsors of numerous national rallies such as the German Day on the Scheersberg in May 1919. Speakers who sharply criticized the Weimar Republic appeared. Among other things, his brother-in-law Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck spoke at the personal invitation of Wallroth . Wallroth also worked alongside other personalities from the Flensburg-Land district as an initiator in the establishment of the "German-Schleswig-Holstein Protection and Defense Association", the forerunner of the Schleswig-Holstein Confederation founded on July 6, 1919 in Sörup. Because of these activities and connections, Wallroth was to be transferred to the government president in Lüneburg in August 1919, although he was considered a capable civil servant. However, his transfer was withdrawn at the end of August 1919. This came about after numerous protests, because the Prussian Ministry of the Interior bowed to the pressure of the conservative district council majority and did not want to take any measures that could negatively affect the mood among the population.

In the Kapp Putsch in March 1920, Wallroth was not one of the active participants, but came under considerable suspicion in preventing the agricultural workers' strike in eastern Angling , so that investigative proceedings were initiated against him too, which ultimately only stopped because of his position in the voting dispute has been.

As a result of the Prussian strike, Wallroth, a DNVP member, succeeded Waldemar Abegg (SPD) as district president of the province of Schleswig-Holstein in autumn 1932 . Although not a member of the NSDAP Wallroth, he remained in his post. Despite being a sustaining member of the SS , he found himself under particular pressure to adapt as the district president. Wallroth cooperated with the new rulers. He also flanked the Nazi persecution with administrative measures such as the transfer of "protective prisoners" to concentration camps in 1933.

When Anton Wallroth was retired in February 1938, Ober-President and NSDAP Gauleiter Hinrich Lohse attested that he had “always endeavored” to “show understanding for the new times and the new state”. Lohse emphasizes this because Wallroth does not have a NSDAP party book and many National Socialists therefore regard him with suspicion.

Honors

The "Wallroth-Haus" on the Scheersberg is named after Anton Wallroth , today a listed building of the International Education Center Jugendhof Scheersberg.

literature

  • Matthias Schartl: District administrators and Kapp Putsch 1920 in northern Schleswig-Holstein . In: Yearbook "Democratic History" . tape 8 , 1993.
  • Hans Friedrich Schutt: Anton Wallroth . In: The district of Flensburg. A Prussian district in Schleswig-Holstein . Flensburg 1981, p. 236-246 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Wallroth 1876 - 1962 BillionGraves dataset. In: billiongraves.com. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ NLA OL directory Staatsdienerverzeichnis Best. 1 No. 599 P. 68 - Wallroth, Peter Wilhelm Aug ... - Arcinsys detail page. In: arcinsys.niedersachsen.de. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  3. ^ Anton Wallroth. In: vimu.info. Retrieved May 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b 1918 to 1944: Democracy and the Nazi era. In: geschichte-sh.de. Society for Schleswig-Holstein History, accessed on October 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wallroth, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (German National People's Party), district administrator of the Flensburg-Land district and district president of the province of Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Birch field
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1962
Place of death Lübeck