Henning von Winterfeld (District Administrator)

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Henning von Winterfeld (born August 6, 1901 in Krieschow , Niederlausitz , † 1945 ) was a German administrative lawyer. He has been missing at Bautzen since 1945.

Life

Henning von Winterfeld attended the Knight Academy (Brandenburg an der Havel) and joined the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in Potsdam on June 30, 1918 . As a lieutenant in the reserve, he retired from military service. Winterfeld studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1919 he was reciprocated in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . He worked as a government assessor in Görlitz, Gumbinnen and Minden . In 1932 he joined the Sturmabteilung and the National Socialist German Workers' Party . In 1933 he was promoted to government councilor. From 1934 to 1936 he worked as a district administrator in the Wolmirstedt district . After the smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic , he was employed as Land Commissioner in the Graslitz district of the Reichsgau Sudetenland . In 1940 he became a provisional district administrator. At the time of the German occupation of Poland in 1940 he was appointed head of the district in the Lublin District of the Generalgouvernement for the Radzyń , Janow-Lubelski and Krasnystaw districts. In 1942 he worked again as district administrator in Graslitz . In 1944 he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) as a first lieutenant in the reserve and has been missing at Bautzen since April 19, 1945 , where he probably fell into the hands of the Red Army on a business trip. Winterfeld was married to Baron Armgard Laur von Münchhofen and had five children. Instead of Winterfeld, the eldest daughter was sent to prison in Czechoslovakia. The mother was finally able to get her daughter out of prison in Czechoslovakia and fled to live with relatives, the Naumburg cathedral preacher Wilhelm Möhring (1877–1966). She went to the West Zone with the children who were still alive .

See also

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 71/1311
  2. ↑ VEJ 4/168, p. 393. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  3. ^ Matthias Schmettow, Ingrid Schmettow: Gedenkbuch des Deutschen Adels , CA Starke, 1980, p. 55. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
personal data
SURNAME Winterfeld, Henning von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Krieschow
DATE OF DEATH 1945