Ernst Ziehm

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Ernst Ziehm

Ernst Ziehm (born May 1, 1867 in Damerau , Marienburg district , West Prussia ; † July 7, 1962 in Timmendorfer Strand ) was a German administrative lawyer , judge and politician ( German National People's Party of the Free City of Danzig ).

Life

After he had passed the Abitur in 1887, Ziehm began to study law and political science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He became active in Corps Suevia Tübingen in October 1888 and only reciprocated after a year, on November 27, 1889 . Inactivated at Easter 1890, he moved to the University of Leipzig . In the same year he also joined the Corps Misnia Leipzig there. Until his death he was the last remaining member of the Misnia. As an inactive he finally went to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . After his first state examination he underwent in West Prussia , the trainee education in Strasburg in West Prussia and Kwidzyn . 1892 doctorate he in Leipzig for Dr. iur.

After the assessor examination (1896) he was given leave of absence to go abroad in 1897. In 1898 he came to the West Prussian Provincial Administration in Danzig. Since 1899 district judge in Strasburg (Uckermark) , he was transferred to the higher regional court in Marienwerder in 1900 . From 1905 to 1914 he was Councilor at the government in Opole in Upper Silesia . In 1914 he was appointed Administrative Court Director in Gdansk . Until 1920 he was also the deputy district president . After giving up his office as judge, he was a member of the Danzig DNVP (not identical with the Reich German DNVP ) in the People's Day from 1920 and deputy Senate President (head of government) until 1925 . From 1922 to 1930 he also served as President of the Danzig Higher Administrative Court. He was instrumental in drafting the constitution guaranteed by the League of Nations for the Free City of Danzig .

When Senate President Heinrich Sahm was unable to form a new coalition, Ziehm took over the Senate presidency in 1931. The Senate Ziehm from German Center Party and DNVP was in Volkstag of the NSDAP tolerated. After the victory of the NSDAP in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , Ziehm had to resign his office to the National Socialist Hermann Rauschning in the summer of 1933 . Ziehm withdrew from political life. With his wife Olga geb. Hardt he had the son Günther (* 1902) and the daughter Wiltrud (* 1910).

Works

  • Danzig, a problem in European politics . Gdansk 1932.
  • From my political work in Danzig 1914–1939 (autobiography). JG Herder Institute, Marburg 1956, 1960.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 130 , 421; 94 , 274
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Can a person of Roman Catholic denomination and not of German nationality, whose marriage was separated in France in 1872 by the separativ perpetua of canon law, now be admitted to marriage in Germany?
  3. ↑ a b Reich Manual of the German Society (1931)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Ziehm, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziehm, Ernst Bruno Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Danzig politicians
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Damerau , Marienburg district , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1962
Place of death Timmendorfer beach