Edmund Noortwyck

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Edmund Oskar Noortwyck (born May 24, 1890 in Witten , † June 17, 1954 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician .

Life

Edmund Noortwyck grew up in Witten an der Ruhr. After graduating from high school in 1910, he studied law and political science at the universities of Jena , Munich , Berlin and Münster . He passed the first state examination in law in 1914 and then took part in the First World War as a soldier . Following the war, he completed his legal clerkship in Westphalia , Berlin and Cologne from 1918 to 1922 . From 1920 he worked for lawyers and industrial companies before he passed the second state examination in 1922. Noortwyck entered the Prussian civil service as a government assessor in 1923, moved to the Reichsfinanzverwaltung as a councilor in 1925, and in 1933 took up a position at the Berlin-Brandenburg regional tax office. During the Nazi era , he was a member of the National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps (NSKK). From 1934 to the beginning of May 1945 he worked as general advisor for corporation tax at the state tax office / regional tax office in Berlin.

A few days after the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Germany, Noortwyck was appointed to the magistrate of Berlin by the Soviet military administration in May 1945, and was appointed to the city council on May 19, 1945 as head of the finance and taxation department of Greater Berlin . In addition, he took over the function of Chief Finance President. He was one of only 3 of the 18 magistrate appointed in May 1945 who had already worked in high administrative positions; In addition to him, this included the former Reich Food and Finance Minister Andreas Hermes and the former Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry of Economics, Hermann Landwehr .

Grave of Edmund Noortwyck in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Noortwyck became a member of the KPD , which initially had "decisive political weight" in the newly installed Magistrate Werner . Due to his earlier membership of the NSKK, he was removed from his offices on October 15, 1945. Subsequently, until June 1947, as Ministerial Director, he was Head of Department III Taxes and Customs of the German Central Finance Administration in the Soviet zone of occupation . Noortwyck, who had meanwhile joined the CDU , worked as a lawyer and tax advisor after leaving the civil service.

Edmund Noortwyck died in West Berlin in June 1954 at the age of 64 . His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Schilde: Bureaucracy of Death. Life stories of Jewish victims of the Nazi regime reflected in tax office files. (=  Documents, texts, materials / Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin , Volume 45). Metropol, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-932482-70-0 , p. 204.
  2. ↑ Werner Breunig: Constitution in Berlin 1945–1950. (=  Contributions to Political Science , Volume 58). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-06965-X , pp. 57–58 (also dissertation , University of Heidelberg 1989; online at Google books ).
  3. ^ Theo Pirker (Ed.) :: Court of Auditors as an object of contemporary historical research. Development and importance of the audit offices in the 20th century. (=  Historical Research , Volume 31). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-06142-X , p. 134.
personal data
SURNAME Noortwyck, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noortwyck, Edmund Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1954
Place of death Berlin