Friedrich Völtzer

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Friedrich Völtzer

Friedrich Völtzer (* 27. August 1895 in Altona ; † 22. September 1951 in Großhansdorf ) than Reichskommissar instrumental in the DC circuit of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck involved.

Life

Völtzer attended high school in his hometown and received his certificate of maturity in 1914 . As a war volunteer he fought with the local regiment on the Western Front until 1917 and was seriously wounded twice and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class.

During his convalescence , Völtzer studied philosophy , history and German at the University of Rostock (winter semester 1917/18, summer semester 1918) before spending seven months of the war in the east ( Kiev ) again. Two more semesters followed in Rostock and Hamburg . Since the winter semester of 1919/20, Völtzer has been studying law and political science at the University of Hamburg .

From September 1920 to April 1923, Völtzer was the syndic of the German Book Printers Association (District X). He passed his doctoral examination, a treatise on a topic from Lübeck's history, on May 17, 1924 with the grade “very good”. In the same month he became managing director of the association of employers of the fishing and transport industry in Cuxhaven and from May 1925 he was managing director of the Fischwirtschaftliche Vereinigung ( trade association of the wholesale and industrial companies of the Cuxhaven sea fish market). At the instigation of the State Fisheries Directorate in Hamburg , he was also editor of the magazine “Der Fischmarkt” from May 1926 . In 1927 he made a study trip to the British fishing ports. In addition, he had been a member of the Cuxhaven city council since October 1927 and was active in both local and economic policy.

From October 15, 1928, Völtzer was the syndic of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce . The Reich government, in the person of Wilhelm Frick ( Reich Minister of the Interior ), appointed Völtzer on the basis of the ordinance of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State of February 28, 1933 as Reich Commissioner for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. He took over the office on the same day and appointed a number of State Commissioners on March 13th , whom he signed on the following day on behalf of the Reich President and the Reich Government .

As Reich Commissioner, Völtzer tried to find a common Reich governor for the three Free Hanseatic Cities . Lübeck, however, had long since become the plaything of the future governors Hinrich Lohse and Friedrich Hildebrandt and on May 26, 1933, it was subordinated to Mecklenburg Friedrich Hildebrandt. He moved into Lübeck on June 8, 1933 with great pomp and appointed his comrade in arms, the dentist Otto-Heinrich Drechsler , as Lübeck's mayor and Friedrich Völtzer as Senator for Finance and Economics . Other senators were the National Socialists Emil Bannemann (Senator for Labor and Welfare), Walther Schröder (Interior Senator ), Ulrich Burgstaller (School and Theater) and Hans Böhmcker (Justice Senator). For a time he was a member of the supervisory board of the Lübecker Hypothekenbank.

From 1934 Völtzer was Reich trustee for work in Berlin and Kiel .

literature

  • Dr. Friedrich Völtzer, Reich Commissioner for Lübeck. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Year 1932/33, No. 13, edition of March 18, 1933.
  • Meyer, Gerhard, From the First World War to 1996: Lübeck in the force field of rapidly changing conditions. in: Antjekathrin Graßmann (Hrsg.), Lübeckische Geschichte. Lübeck, 1st edition 1988, p. 864 (note on p. 712). ISBN 3-7950-3203-2
  • Lübeck Volksbote from June 2, 1933
  • Bärbel Holtz (edit / ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925–1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)
  • Gerhard Schneider : Endangering and Loss of Statehood of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its Consequences ; Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1986, pp. 79-82 (on 1933) ISBN 3-7950-0452-7
  • Joachim Lilla : The Reichsrat: Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919-1934 a biographical handbook with the involvement of the Bundesrat Nov. 1918 - Febr. 1919 and the State Committee Feb. - Aug. 1919. Düsseldorf: Droste 2006 ISBN 3 -7700-5279-X , pp. 126-127
  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918–2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the Publications on the History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 244 ff
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich area , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 985 ( biographical information )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Lübeck's economic situation in the time of the continental blockade. Published in print by Schmidt-Römhild in 1925 among the publications of the Lübeck City Archives .
  3. ↑ Cuxhaven was Hamburg at the time.
  4. ↑ Völtzer succeeded the senior Senator Georg Kalkbrenner, who retired early in May .
  5. ^ Gerhard Schneider: Lübeck's banking policy in the course of the times (1898–1978), Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1979, p. 221
personal data
SURNAME Voltzer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1951
Place of death Großhansdorf