Dietrich Preyer

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Dietrich Preyer

Wilhelm Dietrich Cornelius Preyer (born May 6, 1877 in Düsseldorf , † March 19, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German officer , university professor and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Preyer was the son of the painter Ernest Preyer and his wife Agnes Laura Carolina (née Busch). After attending grammar school in Düsseldorf and graduating from high school in Dessau , he began studying at the University of Lausanne . Shortly afterwards he left the university, instead entered the service of the Prussian army and in 1895 became an officer in the field artillery in Strasbourg . After an accident at work, he was discharged from the army in 1904. He then took up a degree in law and political science at the universities of Greifswald , Cambridge , Königsberg and Moscow , which he completed in 1907 with the first state examination in law. He received his PhD in 1908 at the University of Königsberg to Dr. phil. and subsequently worked as a research assistant for the financial reform in the Reich Treasury . From 1909 to 1911 he worked as a section head at the International Agricultural Institute in Rome .

After graduating as Dr. jur. 1911 at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald and the habilitation (economics) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 1913 Preyer worked as a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg . Since August 1914 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He suffered a gunshot wound in the Battle of Tannenberg and was discharged from military service in August 1918. A month later he was given a lectureship in economics at the University of Dorpat . In 1919 he moved to the Königsberg Albertina as an associate professor, where he was appointed full professor in 1921. In January 1933 Preyer was elected rector of the University of Königsberg; in April 1933 he was re-elected as rector. In October 1933, after conflicts with the National Socialist student leadership, he was transferred to the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster as a professor . From 1935 he taught as a professor at the University of Greifswald. In addition to his work as a university lecturer, he published numerous publications on economic policy.

According to Soviet archive material, Preyer worked as an industrial spy for Soviet foreign intelligence from 1929 to 1932 . He is said to have supplied internals from circles of the German economy as well as copies of patents and technological processes.

politics

Preyer was a member of the DNVP from 1918 to 1933 and deputy chairman of the DNVP in East Prussia from 1920 to 1933. From 1921 to 1924 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . In the Reichstag election in December 1924 he was elected to the German Reichstag , to which he belonged until 1930.

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 134.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Oleg Čerenin: Špionskij Kënigsberg. Operazii specslužb Germanii, Pol´ši i SSSR v Vostočnoj Prussii 1924-1942 Veče Moscow 2012 (especially p. 232 ff.)
  • Jürgen W. Schmidt: When Königsberg was a spy nest . In: "Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung" No. 27 of July 6, 2013.
  • Norbert Schäfers: In memory of Dietrich Preyer , corridor talks, University of Münster, 2016 (biography, pdf)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: Preyer, Wilhelm Dietrich (Cornelius) . In: German biographical encyclopedia . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. tape 8 : Poethes - Schlueter . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 75 ( books.google.de - excerpt).
  2. ^ Bernhard Koerner: Ernest Preyer . In: German gender book (Genealogical manual of bourgeois families.) . CA Starke, Görlitz 1907, p. 400 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ KA Wieth-Knudsen: History of the development of the international agricultural institute in Rome . In: Festschrift for Lujo Brentano on his seventieth birthday . Duncker & Humblot, Munich / Leipzig 1916, p. 439-460 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Очерки истории российской внешней разведки, Т. 2: 1917-1933. годы, М .: Международные отношения, 1997, ISBN 5-7133-0859-6 (Historical Outline of the Russian Enlightenment Abroad, Volume 2: 1917 to 1933. Publisher: International Relations), p. 224.
personal data
SURNAME Preyer, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preyer, Wilhelm Dietrich Cornelius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, university professor and politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1959
Place of death Berlin