Herbert Ziemer

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Herbert Paul Wilhelm Leopold Ziemer (born August 9, 1888 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † November 26, 1975 in Kiel ) was a German administrative lawyer . He was the last district administrator in the East Prussian district of Johannisburg . In 1945 he managed the Flensburg-Land district office .

Life

As the son of a wealthy brandy manufacturer , Ziemer studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1909 he became a member of the Corps Hansea Königsberg . Dissatisfied after his first exam as a court trainee in Saalfeld (East Prussia) , he preferred to become a reserve and if possible a professional officer.

Siberia

He took leave of absence from the judicial service for a year and was commanded by the highest cabinet order to the Teutonic Order Infantry Regiment No. 152 in Marienburg . Wounded in the battle of Waplitz less than four weeks after the outbreak of World War I , he was taken prisoner by Russia . For three and a half years he came to Moscow and Siberia , to Tomsk , Schkotowo , Chabarowsk and Kansk . In his unpublished memoirs, he pays tribute to the good, almost friendly treatment of the captured German officers. With the October Revolution it turned to hostility.

East Prussia

After his dismissal, Ziemer entered the civil service of the Free State of Prussia , first at the district office of the Fischhausen district , then with the district government in Königsberg . In June 1930, the Prussian State Ministry appointed him to succeed the deposed District Administrator Georg Gottheiner in the Johannisburg district. The district council had previously voted unanimously for him. At that time, more and more farms had to be auctioned, which led to unrest. The administration “had its hands full to intervene in the implementation of the Eastern Aid Acts in a protective and preserving manner. The action raised some doubts, since unworthy people also slipped into the care ”. Ziemer recognized that subsidies aimed at individual operations are an evil, as they endanger morale and it is almost impossible for the administration to be absolutely fair.

Belonging to the right wing of the German People's Party , Ziemer was also tolerated by the National Socialists after 1933 , who fought primarily against “the reaction” in the districts. When the fighting in East Prussia broke out in 1944/1945 , he received the order to evacuate from the NSDAP on January 19, 1945 .

Schleswig-Holstein

Ziemer fled to West Germany and came to the Flensburg-Land district , where he managed the district office at the end of the war.

From 1948 he worked in the Schleswig-Holstein State Office for Asset and Debt Management. From 1955 to 1967 he was, first as a custodian according to occupation law , then after the enactment of the Legal Entities Liquidation Act 1965 as the Federal Commissioner for the fiduciary management of the Mecklenburg properties in the communities of Ziethen and Bäk and the domains of Römnitz and Mechow , which were managed by the barber -Ljaschtschenko agreement had come to the Duchy of Lauenburg district , responsible. His successor as trustee was Klaus von der Groeben .

Ziemer became a knight of honor in 1957, later a legal knight of the Order of St. John and state representative for St. John accident relief in Schleswig-Holstein . The Corps Albertina Hamburg and the Corps Saxonia Kiel awarded him the ribbon in 1952 . He was awarded the War Merit Cross 1st Class and the Federal Merit Cross 1st Class.

He played a decisive role in the sponsorship of the Flensburg-Land district from 1954 (from 1974 Schleswig-Flensburg district ) for the expellees from the Johannisburg district and was an honorary member of the Johannisburg district community in the East Prussian Landsmannschaft .

He died at the age of 87 and was buried on December 3, 1975 in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Works

  • Heroes' graves in the Johannisburg district from the World War 1914–1918 . Compiled by Herbert Ziemer and Wilhelm Hubert. Preuss, Johannisburg / East Prussia 1937

literature

  • Obituary . In: The Ostpreußenblatt . December 6, 1975, p. 23
  • Obituary, in: Johannisburger Heimatbrief 1976 , p. 8 ( digital version ; PDF file; 7.05 MB)
  • Klaus von der Groeben : District Administrator Ziemer , in: Administration and Politics 1918–33 using the example of East Prussia . 2nd, expanded edition. Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel 1988, pp. 479–487
  • Ziemer, Herbert Paul Wilhelm Leopold , in: Christian Krollmann : Old Prussian Biography . NG Elwert, Marburg 1995, p. 1541

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 85/20
  2. ↑ Klaus von der Groeben: Herbert Ziemer - last German district administrator in the Johannisburg district. In: Johannisburger Heimatbrief 1969/70 ( digitized version ; PDF file; 946 kB), pp. 9–13
  3. ↑ In the district council of Johannisburg sat 1 Völkischer, 11 DNVP, 1 DVP, 1 DDP, 1 business party, 7 SPD, 3 different groups (von der Groeben)
  4. ↑ Ziemer, Lebenserinnerungen, p. 133; quoted from von der Groeben (1988)
  5. ^ Ryszard Wojciech Pawlicki: Herbert Ziemer. In: Znad Pisy 7 (1998), pp. 171–174 (based on bibliography portal on the history of East Central Europe - LitDok East Central Europe )
  6. ↑ See Klaus von der Groeben: The Mecklenburg property assets in the municipalities of Ziethen, Mechow, Bäk and Römnitz. 1983, p. 25
  7. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 58/289; 77/348
  8. ↑ a b obituary
personal data
SURNAME Ziemer, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziemer, Herbert Paul Wilhelm Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1975
Place of death Kiel