Bernhard Velthuysen

Heinrich Wolff : Bernhard Velthuysen

Bernhard Hieronymus Velthuysen (born September 10, 1881 in Hamburg , † November 19, 1969 ) was a German municipal official in Halle and Hamburg.

Life

During his studies he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity in 1902 . During the Weimar Republic he was the legal counsel in Halle and later also the second mayor. When the Lord Mayor Richard Robert Rive , as already envisaged in the summer of 1932, retired on March 31, 1933 at the age of 67, the city council elected Velthuysen as his successor. Velthuysen was unable to take up this office because, after the NSDAP had won a majority in the city council in the local elections in early 1933, its functionary Johannes Weidemann was appointed mayor on April 1, 1933 . Velthuysen was on leave and retired on June 1, 1933.

In 1936 he became mayor of Altona and, after merging with Hamburg in 1938, became a Senate Syndicate there. When Hans Nieland was appointed Lord Mayor of Dresden in February 1940, Velthuysen became his successor in the office of City Treasurer of Hamburg and also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the new Hamburgische Landesbank.

Velthuysen was also a treasurer in the post-war Senate Petersen until he was released from his duties on July 26, 1945 and retired on September 30, 1945 "for health reasons". Perhaps doubts about his unencumberedness had also arisen. Anyway, he was indicted in the fall of 1948, in November 1942, a fed entrusted to it message about wehrkraftzersetzende statements of an employee of the finance department to the Gestapo passed and thereby contributed to the imprisonment have this employee. The jury acquitted Velthuysen, however, because the delivery ruling he had allegedly signed was no longer available and the court did not want to regard the present copy as sufficient evidence.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 118-119.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ulrich Krieter p. 295 books.google
2. ↑ Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann , Mathias Tullner p. 24 f. books.google
3. ↑ Ursula Büttner , Angelika Voss-Louis: New beginning on ruins: The diaries of Bremen Mayor Theodor Spitta 1945-1947. Walter de Gruyter, 2014, p. 174 fn. 180 ( books.google.de )
4. ↑ Michael Werner (Diss. Frankfurt / M.) P. 423 f. books.google
5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, November 20, 1948.