Helmuth von Wedelstädt
Helmut (h) of Wedelstadt (* 9. November 1902 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † 12. April 1988 ibid ) was a German jurist and local politicians .
Life
Wedelstädt grew up as the son of city councilor Erich von Wedelstädt (1858-1915) in Mülheim an der Ruhr. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Münster and from 1925 worked as a trainee lawyer at the district court of Mülheim an der Ruhr and for the governments of Münster and Cologne . In 1929 he joined the NSDAP with membership number 539.040 . From 1929 to 1932 he was employed as a government assessor at the Koenigsberg district office and the Koenigsberg district government . From 1932 to 1936 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, most recently as a senior councilor . In August 1936 he moved to the provincial administration of East Prussia as governor . From 1941 to 1943 he was Senior Councilor and Head of Main Office I (Politics) in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine under Reichskommissar Erich Koch . As governor he was represented in Königsberg by Reinhart Bezzenberger .
After the Second World War , Wedelstädt worked as a lawyer from 1957 and also as a notary in Mülheim an der Ruhr from 1974 . According to the British secret service, he had contacts with the Naumann circle . In the local elections in 1952 he won a direct mandate in Mülheim-Holthausen as a candidate for the Independent Local Political Association (UKV). In 1956 Wedelstädt was set up for the CDU and until 1979 was a CDU city councilor on the city council. He was chairman of the Audit Committee and the Council Decision Committee. The city of Mülheim honored him with the golden ring of honor in 1975 for his many years of membership in parliament.
Web links
- Ralf Meindl: East Prussia's Gauleiter. Erich Koch - a political biography . Osnabrück 2007, ISBN 978-3-938400-19-7 , p. 113. ( Online )
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer. 16048). Updated edition, 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Ralf Meindl, p. 113.
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 658.
- ↑ Götz Aly, Federal Archives, Institute for Contemporary History: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Volume 2, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2009, p. 102.
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedelstädt, Helmuth von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wedelstaedt, Helmuth von; Wedelstädt, Helmut von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (NSDAP, FDP), governor of the province of East Prussia (1936–1941) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1988 |
| Place of death | Mülheim an der Ruhr |