Hans Wilbert Petri

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Hans Wilbert Petri (born January 7, 1901 in Hilchenbach ; † August 8, 1944 ) was a German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Wattenscheid .

Personal data and training

Hans Peter Wilbert was the son of a royal seminar teacher and study Council and studied after high school at a Bochum high school economics and heads of state and law at the University of Marburg . In the summer semester of 1921 he became a member of the Marburg fraternity Germania . In 1921 he also became a member of the Freikorps Oberland and worked with it in Upper Silesia . After his first state examination in 1926, he also passed the trainee examination and then the assessor examination in 1927. He was also in 1938 by the University of Bonn to Dr. jur. PhD (topic of the dissertation: constitutional law and political theory with Konrad Heresbach ).

Professional career

After passing both state exams, Petri was appointed court assessor at the Bielefeld Regional Court. As an avid NSDAP member ( No. 1.018.112) he was appointed provisional lord mayor on April 16, 1933 as state commissioner of the then independent city of Wattenscheid, after the previous mayor of Ueberhorst was removed from his office on April 3, 1933 and taken into " protective custody " because he refused to hoist the swastika flag . Then he was appointed Lord Mayor of this city for 12 years.

In fact, he only held this office until 1939. With the establishment of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Volkstum (Reich Commissioner was Heinrich Himmler ), as he was a member of the SS (No. 382535), he was convened to this new authority and appointed as the deputy head of the staff main office. In 1940 he was transferred to the Waffen SS and took part in the 1944 battles for Warsaw as Hauptsturmführer of the SS Totenkopf Division . He was killed on August 8, 1944.

Hans Wilbert Petri was married, his son Klaus Petri, later a lawyer and notary in Lippstadt , also a member of the Germania Marburg fraternity , was the cause and cause of the so-called Petri affair .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 299-300.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 369.
  2. ↑ Hans Saßenhausen: Directory of all living, deceased and former members of the Marburg fraternity Germania, private print, 1999.
  3. ^ DNB, Petri Hans
  4. ↑ Wiki article Wattenscheid
  5. ^ Federal Archives NS (personal staff of the Reichsführer SS ) No. 19/1114.
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Hans Wilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor of Wattenscheid
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilchenbach
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1944