Dietrich von Oertzen

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Dietrich Arnd Karl Adolf von Oertzen (born September 20, 1887 in Briggow , † September 19, 1970 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Dietrich von Oertzen was born as the son of the Mecklenburg landowner and Fideikommissherrn Arnd von Oertzen (1851-1918) and his wife Ottilie, b. von der Lühe (1863–1947), born. After graduating from the Pädagogium Putbus in 1906 , he began studying law and political science at the universities in Göttingen , Munich and Greifswald , which he completed in 1909 with the first state examination in law in Stettin . He then entered the Prussian civil service. In 1910 he was at the University of Greifswald to Dr. jur. PhD (dissertation: The share capital of a limited liability company ). The second state examination in law followed in 1913. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier , most recently as a first lieutenant.

Oertzen worked as a consultant in the Reich Ministry of Food in 1919/20 , where he was appointed to the government council. In 1921 he worked as a local court advisor in Schivelbein and from 1921 to 1924 he was in charge of the head office of the Mecklenburg Knighthood Credit Association (Landschaft) and a board member of the Knighthood Fire Insurance ( fire society ) in Rostock . From 1927 he worked as a lawyer and notary. As such, he worked from 1927 to 1944 in the administration of the Graeflich-Schwerin possessions in East Prussia and Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Oertzen took part in the Second World War as a soldier since 1940 , was deployed as a lieutenant colonel in the reserve with the German Army Mission in Bucharest and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944. He was then detained in a Moscow prison for four years . In 1948 he was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison in Moscow. In the following years he served his sentence in Vladimir . In 1955 he was pardoned and then moved to West Germany as a returnees .

From 1956 to the spring of 1970, Oertzen was head of the budget department of the “Finances and Taxes” institute based in Bonn. He was also a member of the legal committee of the Federal Compensation Office in Bad Homburg . He also worked as a legal advisor for the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft and the Central German Federation .

Dietrich von Oertzen was married to Ruth von Hackewitz .

politics

Oertzen joined the German National People's Party (DNVP) after the November Revolution and was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1924 to 1933 . From March 18, 1924 to April 21, 1926 he was Minister of State for Finance and Agriculture, Domains and Forests in the government of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin led by Prime Minister Joachim Freiherr von Brandenstein .

Honors

See also

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden : The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 , p. 52/53.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His place of death is not Bad Godesberg , which was incorporated a good year earlier.

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personal data
SURNAME Oertzen, Dietrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertzen, Dietrich Arnd Karl Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (DNVP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Briggow
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 1970
Place of death Bonn