Bernhard Willers
Bernhard Hermann Friedrich Willers (born May 9, 1881 in Oldenburg ; † February 20, 1941 there ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DNVP and NSDAP ).
Life and work
Willers was born as the son of the upholsterer Johann Christian August Willers and his wife Christine Wilhelmine Katharina born. Kruger was born. After attending school at the Old High School in Oldenburg , he began studying law at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin . After the two legal state exams, the doctorate to Dr. jur. In 1903 and the legal preparatory service in 1907, he finished his training. He then entered the Oldenburg judicial and administrative service. From 1910 he was a government assessor at the Rüstringen office , became official governor in Jever in 1919 and worked in the same position in Cloppenburg from 1920 . There he was particularly committed to the expansion of the road network and the electricity supply by founding the Cloppenburg Electricity Association and also taking over the chairmanship of its supervisory board.
In June 1924 he moved to the Oldenburg Ministry of the Interior as a ministerial advisor and lecturer . In 1932 he became state commissioner at the state financial institutions and at the same time official governor in the city of Oldenburg.
Public offices
After the reorganization of the official government of the Oldenburg Prime Minister Eugen von Finckh as a candidate of the German National People's Party and the German People's Party, from June 23, 1925 to June 16, 1932, he served as Minister of State for Finance and Social Welfare in Finckh II's cabinet . He kept this position under the subsequent Prime Minister Friedrich Cassebohm ( Cassebohm cabinet ) from November 1930.
In the interests of the bourgeois parties, Willer's tax and economic policy was characterized by continuing borrowing and foregoing tax increases despite the budget deficit of millions. Since the advancing economic crisis left no room for maneuver, from 1930 on there was no longer any question of an independent financial policy in the Free State. The financial dependence of the states on the Reich limited Willer's activity to the implementation of the measures prescribed by the Reich government.
After the election victory of the National Socialists and the formation of the government under the new National Socialist Prime Minister Carl Röver in June 1932, Willers was the only previous minister who did not retire, but was appointed State Commissioner at the state financial institutions. The reason for this was that Willers, who had only joined the DNVP in June 1932 and the NSDAP in May 1933, had been classified by the new rulers as being politically right-wing. In October 1932, however, he had to vacate the post because of his criticism of Röver's half-baked loan-taking plans. Instead, he temporarily took over the management of the reorganized Landesbrandkasse in November 1933 and finally in January 1934, which he held until his death.
family
Willers was married to Else, born in Carolinensiel . Nordhoff (* 1888). The couple had a daughter.
literature
- Hans Friedl: Willers, Bernhard Hermann Friedrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 796-797 ( online ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willers, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willers, Bernhard Hermann Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (DNVP and NSDAP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1941 |
| Place of death | Oldenburg |