Curt Schlettwein

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Memorial plaque in the cemetery in Pechov

Theodor Adolf Clemens Ludwig Curt Schlettwein (born July 20, 1879 in Wittenburg , † January 20, 1965 in Coesfeld ) was a German officer, colonial official in Togo and Mecklenburg ministerial official.

Life

Curt Schlettwein was a son of the then governor in Wittenburg Carl Schlettwein and his wife Helene nee. Michaelis (1839-1911). Adolf Schlettwein was his older brother. After his father's death in 1898, he and his four brothers inherited the Bandelstorf family estate (today a part of Dummerstorf ), with the forest assessor Carl Schlettwein selling his share to his brothers in October 1901. In 1904 they sold it to Eilert von Voss.

He started out as an officer and in 1900 became a lieutenant in the 5th West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 148 .

Seal of the Lomé City District Office

In August 1907 he was assigned to serve in the German colony of Togo . Here he worked until 1914, first as one of three officers in the police force and from 1908 as a district officer of Lomé city ​​and country.

During the First World War he returned to Germany. Then he was accepted into the state service of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1922 until 1933 he was deputy authorized representative to the Reichsrat .

In the 1930s he moved to Coesfeld and rented the house of the persecuted journalist Edmund Pesch there in 1937 . He was reactivated as a supplementary officer ( E-officer ) and as a lieutenant colonel (E) became the commander of the military area command in Coesfeld. In 1941 he was promoted to colonel .

He was buried in Coesfeld; on the family grave site at the church in Petschow (Dummerstorf) a memorial stone reminds of him.

estate

After the First World War, Curt Schlettwein maintained his contacts in Togo through extensive correspondence. The more than 350 letters to him from over 40 years as well as his extensive photo collection came to the collection of his nephew Carl Schlettwein (publisher) after his death and were indexed by the Basel Africa Bibliographies .

Awards

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : The Reichsrat - Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919–1934 . Droste Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-5279-0
  • Britt Ziemsen (Hrsg.): Registratur Personen- und Fotoarchiv Curt Schlettwein (1879–1965). Documents on the German and French colonial times in Togo and letters from Africans in West Africa. Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-905758-03-0 .

Web links

  • Entry in the files of the Reich Chancellery online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full name and date of birth after the baptism record, retrieved from ancestry.com; Date and place of birth in its entry in the database files of the Reich Chancellery and the following in the index entry German biography are based on a confusion with Carl Schlettwein (Farmer)
  2. ^ Obituary , Ostpreußenblatt dated January 30, 1965, accessed on July 29, 2016
  3. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1901, Official Supplement No. 45, p. 261; Gut Bandelstorf at www.gutshaeuser.de
  4. ^ Bettina Zurstrassen: "Creating a piece of German soil": Colonial officials in Togo 1884–1914. Frankfurt, M .; New York, NY: Campus 2008 Zugl .: Munich, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Diss., 2005 udT: Zurstrassen, Bettina: The management and control of the colonial administration and its officials using the example of the "protected area" Togo. ISBN 978-3-593-38638-6 , p. 293
  5. ↑ Dieter Westendorf, Hans-Jochen Westendorf: Fates of the Jewish Coesfelder between threat and murder 1919-1945 , p. 144 [1]
  6. ^ Deutsches Kolonialblatt 19 (1908), p. 1146
personal data
SURNAME Schlettwein, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlettwein, Theodor Adolf Clemens Ludwig Curt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, colonial official in Togo and Mecklenburg ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1965
Place of death Coesfeld