Dietrich Wilde

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Dietrich Wilde (pseudonym Dietrich Güstrow ; born March 26, 1909 in Suderode , † March 29, 1984 in Peine ) was a German lawyer , criminal defense attorney in the trials against the Hitler attackers and city ​​director in Peine.

Life

After graduating from the Melanchthon High School in Quedlinburg in March 1927 , Wilde studied law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . There he belonged to the Franconia fraternity since 1927 . In the summer of 1929 he moved to the University of Freiburg and in the winter of 1929 to the University of Göttingen . After his legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Celle in 1931, he was a legal trainee in Güstrow, Ballenstedt, Halberstadt and at the Berlin Higher Regional Court. In May 1935 he passed his assessor examination and was then a lawyer assistant and later a lawyer in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Since 1939 he has had his own practice as a lawyer during World War II, and was also a defender at special courts, courts-martial and the People's Court - including for those accused of the Hitler attack on July 20, 1944.

After his practice was completely destroyed by Soviet troops in the spring of 1945, Wilde was appointed acting mayor of Gernrode by the American military government in April 1945 . From mid-June 1945 he lived in the house at Burgstrasse 1 in Gernrode. However, he was dismissed from this position in October 1945 by the Soviet military government and was then city and district judge in Quedlinburg and from 1946 regional court director in Magdeburg and from 1947 in Halle (Saale) . In 1947, in addition to his work as a judge, he was appointed to the university syndic of the Martin Luther University by the Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt and the incumbent Minister of Justice, Erhard Hübener , and he worked closely with the Halle university curator Elchlepp , a former friend.

At the beginning of 1948 Wilde moved to West Germany and was elected city director (mayor) in Peine near Hanover in March 1948 . In 1974 he retired. In 1981 Wilde published under the pseudonym "Dietrich Güstrow" the report Deadly everyday life - criminal defense lawyers in the Third Reich .

family

Wilde married Hildegard Hamel on October 2, 1937. The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son.

Public offices

Awards

Fonts

  • Peine: the way to the Mittelstadt 1945–1955. Brilon / Westf. : Landesdienst-Verlag, 1956.
  • Peine, the creative city. (with Werner Raddatz), Mimos Verlag, Hameln 1960.
  • District town of Peine. City of Peine, Peine 1962.
  • District town Peine - a situation report. City of Peine, Peine 1971.
  • Heinrich Hauer, a life in the spirit of Pestalozzi: e. Ostharzer as a pioneer d. Special education. In: Our Harz. Volume 24, 1976.
  • Everyday life - criminal defense lawyer in the Third Reich. (Güstrow, Dietrich), Berlin 1981. Siedler Verlag 1986, ISBN 978-3886800094 .
  • Sophia Albertina, Princess of Sweden: the last (39th) abbess of the imperial monastery in Quedlinburg (1753-1892). In: Our Harz. Volume 30, 1982.
  • In those years: Notes from a “liberated” German. (Güstrow, Dietrich), Severin u. Siedler, Berlin 1983. Siedler 1986, ISBN 978-3886800490 .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 313-314.
  • Hubert Rottleuthner in: Critical Justice. Issue 1/1988, 81–91.
  • Hubert Rottleuthner, Johannes Tuchel: Who was Dietrich Wilde alias Dietrich Güstrow? An addendum in: Critical Justice. Issue 1/1991, 76-83.
  • Judaism and Law. Supplement to the journal Die Judenfrage. published by the Anti-Semitic Action (1930s).
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 655-656 .

Web links

  • Death sentences became a cheap commodity . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1981, p. 51 ff . ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Sternal (Ed.) In those Years - Volume 2: Recordings of a Liberated German , Volume 2 (2011), pp. 93ff. ; ISBN 978-3-8423-8119-3
  2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 103, June 5, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Güstrow, Dietrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, city director in Peine
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Suderode
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1984
Place of death Torment