Erich Wende

Erich Wende (born September 14, 1884 in Stargard , Pomerania , † September 29, 1966 in Baden-Baden ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer .

Life

Erich Wende was born on September 14, 1884 as the son of a high school teacher in Stargard, Pomerania. After high school he studied law at the universities of Breslau and Munich in which he awarded the degree of Dr. jur. finished. He had worked as a judge since 1910 and in 1913 became legal advisor to the Westphalian provincial school council in Münster .

Wende's career began in 1917 in the Prussian Ministry of Culture , where he worked closely with long-time minister Carl Heinrich Becker during the Weimar Republic . From 1923 to 1926 temporarily active as the first full-time curator of the University of Kiel , he then returned to the ministry and took over the management of the school department (from 1927 as ministerial director , from 1932 finally ministerial director ).

In 1933 Wende was dismissed by the National Socialists on the charge that he had "worked as a disguised center man " and also lost his teaching position at the law faculty of Berlin University , which he had also held since 1927. Through the mediation of the new State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart , Wende later achieved his "further use" as district court director in Berlin, where he was responsible for marriage, appeal and complaint procedures and most recently for patent and trademark matters until the end of the war. Although he joined the NS-Rechtswahrerbund and the NS-Volkswohlfahrt , but not the NSDAP .

After the end of the war, Wende held a brief post as head of the training department in the Central Justice Administration of the Soviet Zone of Occupation ; but left this in 1946 to become State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture of the newly formed Lower Saxony (under the SPD Ministers Adolf Grimme and Richard Voigt ).

After the founding of the Federal Republic was turning, even though he had already reached the retirement age, in 1950 the first head of the cultural department (Div. III) in the Interior Ministry and has held this position until 1953. During this time he was instrumental, among others, the establishment of the Institute for Contemporary History involved . He was also President of the German Society for Eastern European Studies from 1954 to 1961 .

Honors

• 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• Current Problems of School Law , 1929
• Basics of Prussian university law 1930
• The pedagogical academy as a university , 1930
• Tasks of popular education in our time , 1959, together with Theodor Pfizer and Harmen de Vos
• CH Becker - man and politician. A biographical contribution to the cultural history of the Weimar Republic , 1959

swell

• Bundesarchiv Koblenz: Cabinet minutes online [1] and [2] as well as autobiographical report (class acquisition no. 116)
• Hans-Christian Jasch: The Prussian Ministry of Culture and the "elimination" of "non-Aryan" and politically disliked professors at the Berlin University in the years 1933 to 1934 due to the law to restore the civil service of April 7, 1933 (FN 72) [3]
• Anna-Maria Countess von Lösch: The naked ghost. The law faculty of the Berlin University in transition from 1933 , Tübingen 1999 ISBN 3-16-147245-4 (p. 64) [4]
• Hermann Wentker: Justice in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945-1953. Transformation and role of their central institutions , Munich 2001 ISBN 3-486-56544-3 (pp. 66f. And 75) [5]
• Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar : Hermann Brill and the founding of the Institute for Contemporary History , In: Information from the Fritz Bauer Institute 29 (autumn 2006) PDF; 65.6 kB

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Wende in the catalog of the German National Library