Curt Christian Helm

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Curt Christian Helm , also Kurt Helm (born November 5, 1900 in Gnoien , † May 14, 1936 between Schwerin and Ludwigslust ) was a German lawyer and politician of the NSDAP.

Life

Helm attended elementary school and high school in Rostock, the large city school in his home town . In 1917 he was a soldier and a participant in the First World War and on October 10, 1918 he was named a flag boy . In August 1919, Helm was discharged from military service. He studied law at the universities of Rostock, Freiburg / Br., Berlin and Munich. In Rostock he became a member of the Corps Vandalia in 1922 . On April 17, 1923, he passed the first state examination in law and began his legal preparatory service in Gnoien and Rostock, where he passed the second state examination on July 5, 1927 and was admitted to the bar and notary in January 1928. Helm was a member of the NSDAP and became, in the course of the Gleichschaltung, on May 31, 1933, Lübeck State Councilor and head of the presidential administration's press office. In February 1934 Helm became head of Department II of the Lübeck Senate , the financial and economic administration under Senator Friedrich Völtzer . From August 3, 1933 to February 14, 1934, he was Herbert Dullien's deputy representative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck at the Reichsrat . He died in a traffic accident in Mecklenburg and received a state ceremony in Lübeck's Marienkirche as a memorial service.

Helm was part-time chairman of the board of directors of the Economic Association of Rye and Wheat Mills in Berlin. The National Socialists in Lübeck named Glashüttenweg and the street An der Hafenbahn after him as Curt-Helm-Straße ; With these, large armaments factories built in the Karlshof district from 1934 to 1936 , including the Berlin-Lübeck machine factory Bernhard Berghaus , were opened up for traffic. The naming was reversed after the Second World War.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : The representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck in the Federal Council, State Committee and Reichsrat (1867 to 1934) . In: ZVLGA 86 (2006), pp. 153-182, here p. 173
  • Joachim Lilla: The Reichsrat. Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919–1934. A biographical manual. With the involvement of the Federal Council November 1918 – February 1919 and the State Committee February – August 1919. Düsseldorf 2006, no. 275

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in 1919 in the Rostock matriculation portal ; ditto entry 1921
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 183 , No. 480
  3. ↑ Uwe Müller: St. Gertrud. Chronicle of a suburban residential and recreation area. Issue 2 of the small booklets on city history published by the Lübeck city archive in 1986, p. 65/66 ISBN 3-7950-3300-4
personal data
SURNAME Helm, Curt Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helm, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Gnoien
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1936