Hermann Emil Kuenzer

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Hermann Emil Kuenzer (born April 18, 1872 in Eppingen ; † June 7, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German officer and ministerial official. In the Weimar Republic he was Reich Commissioner. After 1945 he participated in the establishment of the judiciary in the Soviet occupation zone.

Life

He was the son of the chief forester Emil Kuenzer († 1883) and his wife Emma Katharina, née Wittmer (1851-1917). Kuenzer grew up with four siblings. Since October 1, 1891, one year old volunteer in the infantry regiment "Kaiser Friedrich, King of Prussia" (7th Württembergisches) No. 125 , he became a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen in the winter semester 1891/92 . Discharged from the Württemberg army , he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . According to his own admission, he never attended a college during the entire course . After the trainee examination (1895) and the assessor examination, he was a public prosecutor in Karlsruhe at the turn of the century . In 1901/02 he was a magistrate in Engen , where he married and in 1903 had a daughter. He was later a public prosecutor in Waldshut , Mannheim and Karlsruhe (1911).

Prussian Army and Baden

Kuenzer was called up as captain of the reserve at the outbreak of the First World War and took to the field as a company commander in the 1st Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 in Baden . For almost four years he was battalion commander . Promoted to major in the reserve in 1918 , he led the regiment towards the end of the war. Wilhelm II thanked him the day before his abdication with a personally dedicated picture. Kuenzer led the regiment home and immediately campaigned for the restoration of peace and order in the Republic of Baden . The reorganization of the Baden People's Army was temporarily entrusted to him . In 1919 he organized the Baden gendarmerie , which gave him the rank of colonel .

Berlin

In the Weimar Republic in 1920 he became Reich Commissioner for Public Order Monitoring . The authority, which is subordinate to the Reich Ministry of the Interior , had to observe left and right-wing extremist political movements. Friedrich Ebert valued and protected him. As Carl Severing his monocle complained, said Kuenzer in konziliantem Schwäbisch ". In this eye I'm nearsighted, Minister" Most recently, Kuenzer as ministerial political office of the Interior Ministry. In 1927 Kuenzer represented the Reich government and the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg at the 450th anniversary of the University of Tübingen. In his speech he said:

"Long before the establishment of the German Empire, I may say, from its foundation onwards, the University of Tübingen was a link for all the tribes of the German people."

- Emil Kuenzer

Disliked by the National Socialists , he was put into temporary retirement in 1933 . After the attack on Poland began , he was not kept at home. For some time he was named Major d. R. used in an office of the Wehrmacht High Command . In 1940 he came as a judge- martial at the second instance central court of the army in Berlin. After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht and the collapse of the German Reich , the aged former Minister of Justice Eugen Schiffer drew the liberal Kuenzer to his side. In the Soviet occupation zone , Kuenzer was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany and headed the Public Prosecutor's Office of the German Central Administration of Justice until June 1946 . He died unexpectedly a few weeks after his 74th birthday.

corps

Kuenzer as Tübingen Franke (1893)

In 1945, Kuenzer wrote his life story , which was printed as a three-part excerpt in the Frankenzeitung in the 1970s . Kuenzer played a prominent role in his corps all his life. From 1929 to 1935 he represented his corps at every Kösener Congress . As chairman of the weapons committee of the Kösener he fought in the judicial, political and media disputes for the preservation of the scale . The local branch in Berlin elected him unanimously as chairman in June 1930. He was deputy chairman of the Alter Tübinger Franken association . On 9/10 January 1932 he represented Franconia Tübingen at the regular weapons student day in Goslar . "This is where the sharp contrasts between the old student corporations, including the Waffenring (ADW) and the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB), emerged for the first time ." During the Nazi era , Kuenzer did everything he could with his extensive connections to the corps students and the student associations to obtain. In December 1933 he was elected to the Supreme Honorary Council of the Kösener . The honorary council also included Carl Heyer and Count Alvensleben as non-party members and Hermann Sabath as party members ; however, the decisions were free of Nazi influences. Under increasing pressure from the Nazi organizations, he and Friedrich Landfried , Hermann Sabath, Ulrich Kersten and other influential Corps students suggested Max Blunck as the leader of the KSCV: “He disappointed us shamefully. He led the negotiations with the national government and the party and gave step by step. "When he since February 1934 itself Chairman of the old boys' club was and the Corps of finishing off was made, entered Kuenzer in resolutely for the Aryan paragraph one affected Corp brothers. He bowed to majority decisions and (like his father before him) became an honorary member in February 1935 . At the last Kösener Congress in early June 1935, he gave the commemorative speech at the Lion Monument in honor of the fallen corps students. In a memory 30 years after his death it says:

“He was the ideal of a representative of corps students in the best sense of the word. Fearless and fearless, proud and unshakable. "

- Martin Blank

Party memberships

Awards

swell

  • Bundesarchiv Berlin, personnel file Kuenzer DP1 SE No. 91 (not evaluated)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Martin Blank: AH EM Hermann Emil Kuenzer in memory . Frankenzeitung, No. 91, p. 22 f.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 127/508.
  3. ↑ a b Kuenzer, Part I, No. 155, pp. 81–93.
  4. ↑ Kuenzer, Part II, No. 156, pp. 52–59.
  5. ↑ a b Deesen II, Frankenzeitung, No. 157, pp. 134-136.
  6. ↑ a b c Kuenzer, Part III, No. 157, pp. 121-134.
  7. ↑ Ulrich Kersten. Association for corps student historical research, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuenzer, Hermann Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuenzer, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Eppingen
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1946
Place of death Berlin