Berthold Walther

Berthold Walther (born May 28, 1905 in Oldenburg ; † August 24, 1978 there ) was a German lawyer and district administrator of Meppen .

Life

Walther studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . There he became a member of the Holzminda fraternity in 1924 . In 1929 he completed his legal clerkship in Celle and passed his exam in Oldenburg in 1934. After that he came as assessor to the police headquarters to Gleiwitz and went in 1936 to the District Office in Trier before until 1939 when he 1937 Government Permanent Representative of the district administrator in Osnabrück was. From June 1940 he then worked as the deputy district administrator in Meppen, where he was finally appointed district administrator in October 1941 and held this office until 1945, interrupted by some military service.

After the end of the war he was interned in British camps in Esterwegen and Fallingbostel until 1946 , from which he no longer recovered and as a result applied for his retirement due to illness. In 1965 he then worked in his father's book printing and publishing house. He died in his hometown of Oldenburg in 1978.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 416.
• Obituary in: Karl-August Franke (ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity of Holzminda Göttingen. Seelze 1979, pp. 44-45.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 524.
2. ^ Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Part 1. Munich 1983, p. 744.
3. ↑ See: http://territorial.de/hannover/meppen/landkrs.htm (accessed: February 21, 2011)