Hans Widera

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Hans Widera

Hans Widera (born February 6, 1887 in Opole ; † November 21, 1972 in Raubling ) was a German business lawyer.

Life

As the son of a royal Prussian customs director , Widera attended grammar school in Landsberg (Warthe) and the old town grammar school in Königsberg . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg from 1906 . In the summer semester of 1906 he became a member of the Corps Masovia . After the first exam, he was a trainee lawyer in Tapiau , Königsberg and cities outside East Prussia from 1910 .

In October 1911 he joined the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 of the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer , with whom he also went to the First World War . As a lieutenant and first lieutenant , he served on the Eastern and Western Fronts . He was platoon and company commander, battalion and regimental adjutant . In 1914 and 1916 he was wounded. In September 1917 he was taken prisoner by the French , from which he was not released until 1920. In Berlin he passed the bar exam with the patent on April 1, 1914. In Konigsberg doctorate he became Dr. iur. For his achievements during the war, Widera was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords and the Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class awarded with the war decoration.

In October 1920 he resigned from the judicial service as a district judge . In 1921 he married Johanna Neubauer , a publisher's daughter. They had a daughter and two sons who died in childhood of heart disease and appendicitis . By the end of 1923, Widera was the managing director of various associations in the paper processing industry in Berlin. On January 15, 1924, he became the syndic of the Aschaffenburg pulp works . During the Nazi era , he had to give up the post, but was able to stay with the company.

Harassed by National Socialist authorities because of his Jewish mother as a "half-Jew" , he also had to fear for the loyalty of his corps brothers . In a letter dated January 22, 1934, Hans Pfundtner - State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and Widera's Leibbursch - asked the leader of the Corps student group, Max Blunck , whether the Aryan paragraph should be applied to Widera, Rolf Grabower and two other Masurians. “With regard to their combatant characteristics, resp. her official character ” , Blunck's personal advisor at Widera and Grabower saw no need for discharge from the corps. In order to spare him trouble, Widera put the tape down in October 1935. Since 1936 he was in Berlin with his company . With him he moved to Raubling / Upper Bavaria in February 1945. In 1948 he declined the offer to resume the tape. It was not until 1956 that Wilhelm Brindlinger changed his mind: “We were the pigs!” In the post-war period, he was promoted to the board of his company, responsible for human resources and taxation. In 1949 he became the first chairman of the newly founded Association of Employers' Associations of the German Paper Industry. V. Widowed since January 1952 and retired in autumn 1952, he stayed at his retirement home in Raubling . He often came to major events of the Corps Palaiomarchia-Masovia in Kiel, was chairman of the AHSC Rosenheim for several years and attended the Kösener congresses in Würzburg . The old gentlemen's association of the Corps Palaiomarchia awarded him the ribbon in 1960. Widera traveled to all continents. He left a daughter and had four grandchildren.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005. Potsdam 2006
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The supply contracts under the influence of the war, the revolution and the peace treaty , Berlin 1921
  3. ↑ Dr. iur. Rolf Weitzmann, Corps Suevia Heidelberg; Kösener corps lists 1960, 67/974
  4. ^ Archives Corps Masovia
  5. ↑ Overview of the chairmen and general managers of the Association of Employers' Associations of the German Paper Industry ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 113/586
  7. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Müller-Dieckert: Hans Widera . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 52 (WS 1972/73), p. 1123 f.
personal data
SURNAME Widera, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1972
Place of death Raubling