Helmuth Maier

This article deals with the district administrator and genealogist Helmuth Maier . For other people with similar names, see Helmut Maier .

Helmuth Maier (born May 8, 1892 in Hohenheim (Stuttgart) ; † August 22, 1976 in Nürtingen ) was a German district administrator and genealogist .

Life

Born as the son of the chief bailiff Wilhelm Friedrich Maier , he studied law in Tübingen after attending elementary school in Heilbronn and grammar schools in Ulm and Esslingen as well as his time as an intern at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Urach . During his studies he became a member of the Normannia Tübingen Association in 1910 . In 1914 he was a war volunteer in the infantry regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" (2nd Württembergisches) No. 120 and later with the field artillery regiment "König Karl" (1st Württembergisches) No. 13 in Ulm and with the replacement field artillery Regiment No. 65, with which he took part in the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme , among others . He received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Frederick with Swords. In 1918 he suffered a serious wound, which ended the First World War for him .

After his exams and at the end of his legal clerkship, he became deputy public prosecutor in Göppingen in 1920 and deputy magistrate at the Nürtingen regional office in 1921 and at the Laupheim regional office in 1922 . In 1923 he went as a bailiff, and Councilor to the upper office Oberndorf . From 1923 to 1929 he was several times administrative clerk at the Sulz Oberamt , then from November 1929 to August 1935 Oberamtverweser at the Oberamt Spaichingen , where there was no scheduled appointment as district administrator due to the planned dissolution of the Oberamt . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP (No. 3144980) and the NSKK . From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Nazi legal guardians' association , and in 1935 an assessor at the Spaichingen district court and chairman of the Spaichingen district administration of the Württemberg State Office for Monument Preservation .

In August 1935 he moved from the district office Spaichingen to District Office Nuertingen and was there first Temporary Administrator before in December 1935, district administrator of the district Nürtingen was appointed. During his tenure as Nürtingen District Administrator, the district reform took place on October 1, 1938, during which the neighboring Kirchheim district was dissolved and largely added to the Nürtingen district. From 1938 to 1945 Helmuth Maier was a volunteer district leader of the DRK district association Nürtingen-Kirchheim.

On April 23, 1945, he was arrested and interned by the security service of the American military government . He then did not return to public service. The retirement gave Maier the opportunity to devote himself even more intensively than before, now also commercially, to family research. Maier was also an active member of the Nürtingen local group of the Swabian Homeland Federation and from 1948 an advisory member of the Nürtingen district maintenance authority of the Württemberg State Office for Monument Preservation.

Create

His genealogical contribution in the Heimatbuch des Kreis Nürtingen (1953) and the representation of the established Sindelfingen families with 188 lineages from 1500 to 1950 (1962) were exemplary in their schematic arrangement and with the consideration of the population changes after the Second World War . Maier also made a special contribution to the then Association for Family and Heraldry in Württemberg and Baden eV , which is why it made him an honorary member at its 40th annual meeting in 1963.

Publications

• The owners of the two small castles in Oberensingen. The owners from construction to the present. In: Nürtinger Tagblatt from December 24/29, 1944.
• Family history sources in Nürtingen. In: Genealogy and Heraldry 1, 1948/49, pp. 129–131.
• The Wohlhaupter, an old Nürtingen lathe family. In: Nürtinger Zeitung of June 11, 1949.
• Old gravestones in the Nürtingen cemetery. In: Nürtinger Kreisnachrichten from August 20, 1949.
• Considerations about family studies. In: Heimatbuch des Kreises Nürtingen, Volume I. On behalf of the Kreisverband Nürtingen, published by Hans Schwenkel , Würzburg 1950, pp. 500–504.
• The families of the district of Nürtingen In: Heimatbuch des Kreises Nürtingen, Volume II. Published by Hans Schwenkel, Würzburg 1953, pp. 1303–1444 on behalf of the Nürtingen district association.
• Württemberg pharmacists of the 16th / 18th centuries Century. Nürtinger and Kirchheimer pharmacists. In: Contributions to the history of pharmacies in Württemberg, Volume 2, edited by Armin Wankmüller, 1953, pp. 16-19.
• Sindelfingen families. 188 family tables from 1500 - 1950. Verlag Adolf Röhm, Sindelfingen 1962.
• Family file Dettingen unter Teck. Copy and compilation by Werner Gebhardt, self-published, Esslingen-Berkheim 1980.

literature

• One of the most capable genealogists. For today's 70th birthday of District Administrator i. R. Helmuth Maier. In: Nürtinger Zeitung of May 8, 1962.
• Hans-Ulrich von Ruepprecht : District Administrator a. D. Helmuth Maier 80 years old. In: Südwestdeutsche Blätter for family history and heraldry . Volume 13 / Heft 12, Stuttgart 1972, pp. 371-372.
• Obituary for former District Administrator Helmuth Maier by Dr. Summer. In: Südwestdeutsche Blätter for family history and heraldry. Volume 15 / Issue 5, Stuttgart 1977, p. 201.
• Werner Gebhardt: Contributions and registers for the family file Dettingen under Teck . Self-published, Esslingen-Berkheim 1994.
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 395 .
• 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. 13-14.