Helmuth von Maltzahn (administrative lawyer)

Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn (* December 22, 1870 in Validz ; † June 1, 1959 in Bückeburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and landowner.

Life

Born as the son of the later President Helmuth von Maltzahn and his wife Anna, b. von Rohrscheidt, Helmuth von Maltzahn studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Vandalia . In 1893 he passed the trainee exam in Berlin . In 1896 he entered the administrative career and became a government trainee in Kassel , in 1899 a government assessor in Prenzlau , in 1901 in Hildesheim , then in the Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. In 1904 he became district administrator of the Prenzlau district , and in 1914 senior president in Potsdam. During the First World War , Maltzahn took part in 1914/15 as Rittmeister of the Reserve of the Cuirassier Regiment "Queen" at General Command XXIII in Flanders . In 1919 he resigned from the civil service and settled as a manor owner on Schossow near Treptow on the Tollense .

He was arrested on July 21, 1944 as an opponent of National Socialism . On October 12, 1944, he was released on the basis of a medical certificate. He stayed on his Schossow estate until October 1, 1945, then was taken to the dispossessed camp in the Tützpatz manor and released on October 26, 1945. He then fled from the Soviet occupation zone to West Germany , as he was threatened with arrest again .

His daughter Arianne married Kurt von Plettenberg in 1934 , who was arrested in 1945 for participating in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 and who committed suicide in the Gestapo prison.

literature

• The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935 . Berlin 1936, p. 199

Web links

• Literature about Helmuth von Maltzahn in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Gut Schossow in Tützpatz near Altentreptow. In: Manor houses and castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .