Ernst Walz (politician, 1888)

Ernst Walz (born February 14, 1888 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 5, 1966 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer . He was Vice-President of the Württemberg-Baden Administrative Court and, after the Second World War, briefly Lord Mayor of Heidelberg. Because of his uncle Ernst Walz of the same name , who was the predecessor in office, he is sometimes called "Ernst Walz II".

Life

Walz attended elementary school and the humanistic grammar school in Heidelberg and studied law in Paris, Heidelberg and Munich until 1910. He passed the first state law examination, completed military service and was a reserve officer in World War I. In 1919 he passed the second state examination in law in Karlsruhe and began working in the internal administration of Baden. In the Interior Ministry, Walz was promoted to head of the department for constitutional law, administrative organization, municipal and savings bank supervision and in 1932 to the ministerial councilor. Because of his mother, who was American of German-Jewish descent, he was transferred to the Court of Audit in 1935. In 1937 he had to go into temporary retirement and in 1942 into final retirement.

After the Second World War, Walz was appointed by Hermann Heimerich to the provincial government of the Middle Rhine-Saar , which only existed for a short time . He then belonged to the North Baden government until he was appointed Mayor of Heidelberg on September 18, 1945 (until May 31, 1946). In this function he was a member of the provisional parliament for Württemberg-Baden . In 1946 he moved to the newly established Karlsruhe branch of the Administrative Court of Württemberg-Baden. Until 1953 he was Vice President and Senate President here. In addition, from 1949 he was President of the Karlsruhe Service Penal Senate of the Württemberg-Baden Service Criminal Police Office and 1950–52 member of the State Court of Justice for Württemberg-Baden. After his retirement he was appointed to an administrative reform committee by the Baden-Württemberg government, which he headed from 1956 to 1960.

In 1948 Walz was awarded an honorary doctorate by the law faculty of the University of Heidelberg, and in 1953 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

See also

• List of the Lord Mayors of Heidelberg

literature

• Paul Feuchte in Biographies of Baden-Württemberg, Volume 2 . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-014117-1 .