Helmuth von Oertzen

Helmuth von Oertzen (born September 26, 1888 in Ludwigslust , † April 27, 1952 in Erfurt ) was a German military official and politician ( CDU ). He was the Thuringian Minister of Transport .

Life

Helmuth von Oertzen, son of a forest master, attended preschool and secondary school in Mecklenburg , Holstein and Berlin . In 1911 he passed the Abitur at the secondary school in Malchin . Between 1911 and 1930 he completed a career as an officer , mainly in the military transport sector. From 1914 to 1918 von Oertzen took part in the First World War. In 1930 he was retired from the military as captain d. R. dismissed. From 1930 to 1937 he worked as a civilian employee in the military administration in Heide (Holstein) . He was then from 1937 to February 1950 administrative director of the Tannenfeld sanatorium near Nöbdenitz in Thuringia.

In 1945 von Oertzen joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). From 1947 he was active as a representative of the CDU in the people 's congress movement and was a member of the executive board of the CDU Thuringia until 1952. From February 25 to November 20, 1950, von Oertzen - as successor to Wilhelm Bachem - was Minister of Transport in the Eggerath I cabinet .

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 990.
• Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (ed.): Thuringia manual. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia from 1920 to 1995 . Böhlau, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 612.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Partly also Helmut.