Georg Schulz (Ministerial Councilor)

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Georg Schulz
Christening ceremony Reichswehr Minister Groener
Stolperstein , Leibnizstrasse 86, Berlin-Charlottenburg

Hans Georg Oskar Schulz (* August 5, 1882 in Speichrow ; † April 21, 1937 in Berlin ) was in managerial responsibility for the Olympic Village Berlin at the 1936 Summer Olympics .

Life

Schulz was born as the son of the brewery owner Emil Oskar Schulz and his wife Juliane Franziska, b. Reglitz, born. After studying law in Heidelberg and serving in the military with the foot artillery regiment “General-Feldzeugmeister” (Brandenburgisches) No. 2 , he was employed as chief directorate at the headquarters of the V Army Corps in Posen . In World War I served Schulz as a captain and was awarded the Iron Cross and I. Class II awarded..

Activity in the Reichswehr Ministry

Schulz joined the Reichswehr Ministry in 1920 and has been there since 1921 in the ministerial office under the Reich Ministers Otto Geßler , Wilhelm Groener and Werner von Blomberg, first as a senior government councilor and then as a ministerial councilor . In 1921 he was a co-founder, partner and since 1926 chairman of the supervisory board of Wohnbau GmbH. In 1928 Schulz was appointed "Commissioner for the settlement of individual funds that were still in the administration of departments of the Army Command that were not approved under budget law" and was thus responsible for clearing up the Lohmann affair . On June 30, 1934, the day of the so-called Röhm Putsch , he was removed from the ministerial office and transferred to the Army Administration Office.

Work for the Olympic Village in Berlin

Schulz was in the building committee of the Olympic Village in Berlin responsible for the cooperation between the army administration and the executing companies. At the topping-out ceremony on September 25, 1935, Schulz gave the speech on behalf of the building committee. In recognition of his special achievement, Schulz was awarded the Olympic Medal of Honor 1st Class .

suicide

On April 21, 1937, Schulz committed suicide at the headquarters of the Army Administration in order to avoid being arrested by the Gestapo for his homosexuality . A stumbling block in front of his last house in Leibnizstrasse 86 in Berlin-Charlottenburg has been remembering him since 2005 .

honors and awards

literature

  • Hürter, Johannes : Wilhelm Groener. Reichswehr Minister at the end of the Weimar Republic (1928–1932). Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55978-8 .
  • Drost, Susanne: The Olympic Village 1936 through the ages. Neddermeyer Verlag, Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3933254124 .
  • Hübner, Emanuel: The Olympic Village from 1936. Planning, construction and history of use. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 3506779885 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Georg Oskar Schulz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ebel family archive http://www.goldesel-rendering.de/familienarchiv-ebel .
  2. ↑ a b War Ministry, Secret War Chancellery: "Ranking list of the royal Prussian army for 1912". ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1912. p. 67.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1931. p. 67.
  4. ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trauermeldung_Hans_Georg_Oskar_Schulz.png
  5. ^ Hürter, Johannes: "Wilhelm Groener - Reichswehr Minister at the end of the Weimar Republic", p. 113 f.
  6. ^ Berliner Lokalanzeiger, September 26, 1935.
  7. ↑ a b Bulletin Association for Body Culture, year 1937, No. 2, p. 2 f.
  8. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/ueber-den- Bezirk/geschichte/stolpersteine/ artikel.179377.php
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulz, Hans Georg Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and officer, most recently major and department head of the Army Administration Office
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Speicherrow
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1937
Place of death Berlin