Franz Willuhn

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Franz Friedrich Willuhn (born October 24, 1885 in Triaken , Kr. Insterburg , † February 17, 1979 in Milspe ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official .

origin

Willuhn came from an old Prussian family ( Welune ) in Galinden . On the northern edge of the Mauersee was an ancestor as Reik , ie chief of the Prūsai there . His son was baptized in 1239 in the Balga order castle . The maternal ancestors were boyars in Lithuania . Willuhn's great-grandfather fled to East Prussia and bought an estate near Angerburg . The following generations lived here and in the Insterburg district.

Life

After attending the schools in Triaken and Angerburg, Willuhn first made a commercial apprenticeship, but switched to the grammar school in Insterburg . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He later settled in the Friedrichs University Halle , at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and at the Institute of Shipping and World Economy in Kiel on economy one. After the state examination at the Higher Regional Court Naumburg doctorate he in 1913 at the University of Greifswald to Dr. iur. Willuhn was a member of the Corps Masovia (1908) and the Corps Palaiomarchia (1960).

First World War

Since 1913 lieutenant in the (1st East Prussian) Grenadier Regiment No. 1 "Crown Prince" , he took part in the First World War. After being wounded several times, he served in Königsberg and Saarbrücken . In 1917 he came to the Great General Staff and in 1918 to the Balkans Military Plenipotentiary. Shortly before the end of the war, he was transferred from Sofia to Metz . After all, he had a command for the return transport of Army Group Duke Albrecht from France. He received the highest awards. "He was particularly fond of wearing the highest order of the Kingdom of Bulgaria ".

Weimar Republic

After taking his second exam in Berlin, he was an assessor at various public prosecutor's offices . In 1921 he was hired as a government councilor in the industrial and trade policy department of the Reich Ministry of Economics . In the same year he married Charlotte Wirth († 1973), the daughter of a factory owner in Milspe, Westphalia. Since 1931 he has been a senior government councilor and has been a ministerial adjutant and member of the delegation for trade agreements with Yugoslavia , Bulgaria and Romania . With special assignments he often took part in meetings of the League of Nations in Geneva and Paris .

National Socialism

In 1933 Willuhn joined the Reich Chancellery as a ministerial advisor . At the funeral service for Paul von Hindenburg in the Tannenberg Memorial on August 7, 1934, he took part as an official guest. When it came to the continuation of the student associations in 1935 , Willuhn was at the side of State Secretary Hans Heinrich Lammers . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP and in the same year was appointed Reich Cabinet Councilor, responsible for the areas of economy and transport. He and Johannes Popitz saved his corps brother Rolf Grabower from being deported to an extermination camp.

On April 21, 1945 Willuhn received the delegation to Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz in Plön . Since he did not take part in the Dönitz government's move to Flensburg - Mürwik , he escaped being arrested there. In 1948 he was summoned to witness the Nuremberg trials for a long time .

The family archive in Willuhn's house in Schlachtensee was taken over by the commander of the American sector in Berlin .

New beginning

Since the late summer of 1945 Willuhn worked in the Milsper Gustav Wirth OHG, hammer mill, rolling mill and drop forge . It had two subsidiaries, the Ostdeutsche Maschinenfabrik Rud. Wermke AG in Heiligenbeil , where Willuhn sat on the supervisory board, was destroyed in 1945. The other subsidiary is today's INDAG Maschinenbau GmbH in Borsfleth near Glückstadt. When the Milsper factory closed in 1956 because of a lack of sales, Willuhn took care of the liquidation.

Willuhn died in a diabetic coma without knowing about his illness. He left two sons who took part in World War II . One was the smeltery director at Klöckner in Bremen. The other is a lawyer and owner of INDAG Maschinenbau Borsfleth .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Liability for the costs of medical treatment of a minor without the will of the parental authority in accordance with the rights of the German Civil Code .
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 87/974
  3. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
  4. ^ Dietrich Willuhn, 2011
  5. ^ Dieter Rebentisch: Hitler's Reich Chancellery between Politics and Administration. In: Dieter Rebentisch and Karl Teppe (eds.): Administration versus leadership in the state of Hitler: Studies on the political-administrative system . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, p. 78.
  6. ↑ H.-H. Müller-Dieckert: Obituary for Franz Willuhn . Corps newspaper of the Altmärker-Masuren 64, p. 1659 f.
personal data
SURNAME Willuhn, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willuhn, Franz Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Triaken , East Prussia Province , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1979
Place of death Milspe