Hartwig Schlegelberger

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Hartwig Schlegelberger at the lectern of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein, June 1963

Hartwig Schlegelberger (born November 9, 1913 in Berlin , † October 6, 1997 in Flintbek ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a Nazi military lawyer , finance minister from 1961 to 1963 and interior minister from 1963 to 1971 and also deputy to the prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein .

Life and work

After graduating from a humanistic grammar school , Schlegelberger studied law and political science in Tübingen and Berlin . In 1934 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen . After the first state examination in law and his legal clerkship , he passed the assessor examination in 1940 . 1941 doctorate he at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen for Dr. iur.

From 1943 to 1945 he was chief staff judge at the Naval War Office in Berlin and participated as a prosecutor in death sentences for degradation of military strength and petty offenses . From 1946 he worked at the district welfare office and later as a district syndic in Flensburg .

Hartwig Schlegelberger's father Franz Schlegelberger was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1931 to 1942 , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes in the Nuremberg legal process , but was released early because of incapacity for prison. His older brother, Günther Schlegelberger , joined the Foreign Service after the war and died in 1974 as the German ambassador in Panama. Hartwig Schlegelberger was married to Luise geb. Baroness von Rotberg (1913–1982) and left two daughters, Patricia Aden and Regine Schlegelberger-Erfurth.

politics

Schlegelberger had been a member of the CDU since 1953. For many years he was chairman of the CDU district association in Flensburg .

MP

From 1958 to 1975 Schlegelberger was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein . Here he was from 1958 to 1961 chairman of the finance committee .

Hartwig Schlegelberger always moved into the state parliament as a directly elected member of the Flensburg-Ost constituency .

Public offices

From 1954 to 1961 he was district administrator for the Flensburg district .

On November 6, 1961, he was appointed finance minister to the state government of Schleswig-Holstein led by Prime Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel . On May 1, 1963, he moved to the office of Minister of the Interior in the government now headed by Prime Minister Helmut Lemke . From February 14, 1963 Schlegelberger was also Deputy Prime Minister. After the state elections in 1971 he left office on May 24, 1971.

Honorary positions

Schlegelberger was President of the German Red Cross , Schleswig-Holstein State Association , for many years . From 1979 to 1991 he was Vice President of the DRK, most recently President of the DRK Berlin. In 1993 Schlegelberger's personality was honored on his 80th birthday: “Our youth need role models like you.” (Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl ), “Their whole life was dedicated to serving the common good”, (Berlin's Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen ), “Schlegelberger's The way of life is characterized by the commitment to a peaceful, tolerant coexistence of people ” ( Berliner Morgenpost ) .

His resignation followed in 1995 after allegations of SA membership, three applications for NSDAP membership and being present at executions for minor offenses.

As chairman of the German Border Association e. V. Schlegelberger was already committed to improving German-Danish relations as a district administrator in Flensburg.

Honors

Publications

  • CDU - ahead of the times. The CDU and the employee. A speech in front of the working group CDU and workers at the state party conference of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein in 1964 in Husum , Hanover 1964
  • with Johannes Hoffmeyer: The European awakening. Limit as a question and answer. Studies on the relationship between Germany and Denmark , Flensburg 1969
  • The modern health policy of the CDU , Kiel 1971
  • with Gerhard Schmidt: Perspectives of German cultural work in Schleswig-Holstein and North Schleswig , Sankelmark 1981
  • with Wolfgang Böning and Albert von Mutius : Financial Control in the Federal State , Heidelberg 1982

See also

literature

  • Paths to democracy and the rule of law in Prussia, Schleswig-Holstein and the Federal Republic of Germany. For the 70th birthday of Minister a. D. Dr. Hartwig Schlegelberger . Institute for Regional Research and Information (Ed.), Flensburg 1983

Web links

Commons : Hartwig Schlegelberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 39 , 1035
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The legal basis of the protection of legitimate expectations in commercial law
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. 538f, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007
  4. ↑ Decomposing elements. The German Red Cross in Berlin stands by its president, a former judge from the Nazi era . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1995, p. 94, 96 ( online ).
  5. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 8, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Schlegelberger, Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the State Parliament, State Minister in Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1997
Place of death Flintbek