Gerhard Wandschneider

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Memorial for Gerhard Wandschneider on the cathedral courtyard in Ratzeburg

Gerhard Wandschneider (born September 29, 1906 in Christinenhof ; † August 27, 1981 in Ratzeburg ) was a German lawyer and local politician.

Life

Wandschneider, the son of a tenant, studied law and political science at the universities of Munich and Rostock after attending the village school in Christinenhof and the secondary school in Malchin . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Munich fraternity in 1925 .

He first entered the Mecklenburg administrative service and in 1935 became mayor of Stargard Castle . Wandschneider joined the NSDAP in 1937 . From 1941 to 1945 he was acting district administrator for the district of Wismar .

After fleeing the Soviet occupation zone in 1945, he first came to Meldorf . In 1948 he was appointed the first full-time managing director of the Schleswig-Holstein Local Council and held this office until mid-1950. From 1950 to 1969, Wandschneider was a non-party district administrator for the Duchy of Lauenburg . Wandschneider became known nationwide in 1954 because of his local political contacts to the neighboring districts of Gadebusch and Hagenow in the GDR and to the Rostock-Land district . Cooperated with the district of Hagenow in the maintenance of the Boize and Delvenau border waters . The Federal Minister for Pan-German Issues, Jakob Kaiser , had already published a decree on dealing with East German local politicians because he feared that such visits by East German local politicians in the Federal Republic would undermine the people's struggle for freedom in the GDR. The Minister of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein, Paul Pagel, as the responsible municipal supervisor for Wandschneider, completely forbade contacts at the municipal level and the Prime Minister of the State Kai-Uwe von Hassel ordered Wandschneider to report to Kiel after the Rostock delegation had left . Wandschneider cultivated inner-German relations during his entire tenure as district administrator. He also suggested the establishment of the Alte Salzstraße tourist association.

In retirement, Wandschneider became a member of the CDU in 1970 and, as a founding member of the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft (1951), with its founding in 1973, was chairman of the foundation council of the Mecklenburg Foundation in Ratzeburg until his death . Until September 1974 he was deputy chairman of the administrative board of Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein . He was involved in the founding in 1952 of the Ratzeburger rowing clubs as a basic requirement of the 1966 incurred rowing Ratzeburg Academy .

A memorial stone with a relief by the Berlin sculptor Gertrud Bergmann (1910–1985) was erected for him on the cathedral courtyard in front of the manor house of the Dukes of Mecklenburg , today's district museum .

Awards (selection)

Fonts

  • Municipal code for Schleswig-Holstein: text edition , 1950
  • A stake in the flesh of Germany in: Journal for Geopolitics in Community and Politics , Heidelberg: Inst, ZDB-ID 11048505. Volume 2 (1956) 10, pp. 43-51

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10535 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 207-210.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. S. 525.
  3. ↑ Gras im Grenzgraben in Der Spiegel, issue 47/54
personal data
SURNAME Wandschneider, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Christinenhof
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1981
Place of death Ratzeburg