Emil von Wedel

Count Emil Eugen Erhard Alfred Oskar Fritz Edzard von Wedel (born September 14, 1886 in Weimar , † December 18, 1970 in Wiesbaden ) was a German electrical engineer and administrative officer .

Life

Emil Graf von Wedel was a son of Ernst-August Graf von Wedel and Leonie von Wagner and had four siblings, including the Potsdam Police President Wilhelm von Wedel . He had been married to Elisabeth Arnold since 1921 and had a son, the Bad Driburg spa director Peter Graf von Wedel (1926–2014).

After graduating from the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in 1907 he was one-year volunteer in the railway Regiment. 1. After an electrical engineering internship he studied from 1909 at the technical universities in Aachen, Dresden and Wroclaw electrical engineering . Because of the World War he was only able to complete his studies in 1919. In 1915 he was promoted to lieutenant. Between July and November 1918 he worked in the submarine department of the Reichswerft in Kiel and from December 1918 to June 1919 in the demobilization department of the War Ministry.

Politicized by the Kapp Putsch , he took over the district office of the Steinau district in Steinau an der Oder in Lower Silesia in 1920, on the advice of the Social Democratic Reich Commissioner for Silesia, Fritz Voigt . After his departure in 1923 he was legation councilor in the Saxon foreign ministry and from 1924 government councilor in the Dresden administration. In 1929 he was appointed district administrator for the Hersfeld district. He resigned from this office after the election victory of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) on March 5, 1933. From March 1933 he worked as a businessman in Berlin and from 1937 worked there for the electrical industry group. In 1945 he became a representative of Hesse in the state council of the American zone of occupation and between 1949 and 1951 was deputy regional president at the regional council in Wiesbaden.

In 1932 he signed the " Urgent Appeal " for tactical cooperation between the SPD and KPD in the July 1932 Reichstag elections . He was a board member of the "German League for Human Rights", which is why in November 1933 an investigation was made against him. In 1967 he was one of the founding members of the "Hessian Committee for Political Amnesty and Repeal of the KPD Ban".

literature

• Wolf Christian von Wedel Parlow : East Elbian nobility under National Socialism. Family memories using the example of the fronds. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8470-0758-6 .

Web links

• Wedel, Emil Eugen Erhard Alfred Oskar Fritz Edzard Graf von. Hessian biography. (As of March 27, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).