Hermann Landwehr

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Hermann Landwehr (second from left) in 1945 in the Berlin magistrate Werner

Hermann Landwehr (born June 21, 1884 in Nuremberg ; † January 23, 1955 in East Berlin ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official , resistance fighter against National Socialism in the vicinity of Carl Goerdeler , city councilor in Berlin and vice-president of the German central bank .

Life

After obtaining his university entrance qualification, Landwehr studied law in Erlangen , Berlin and Leipzig from 1904 . In 1913 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . He then worked as a ministerial official at the authorities of the German Reich , initially at the Reich Insurance Company for Salaried Employees in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . From 1920 he worked in the Reich Ministry of Economics (RWM), where he was promoted to Ministerial Director. At RWM, he initially headed Department VI Foreign Exchange and the Reich Office for Foreign Exchange Management until its dissolution. From 1936 he was a member of the Currency Allocation Commission. He later became Reich Commissioner for import and export permits. Most recently, he headed the foreign exchange department with the rank of ministerial director.

His criticism of the politics of the Nazi regime brought him into contact with Carl Goerdeler, whose friendship he won. When he feared arrest after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Landwehr took him in for a short time. In August 1944, Landwehr was arrested by the Gestapo . In January 1945 he became a six-year prison sentence condemned and in the penitentiary Brandenburg-Gorden transferred.

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When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he was released from prison in May 1945. He was appointed to the magistrate of Berlin in May 1945 and was head of the economic department there until 1947. In 1945 he became a member of the main committee of the victims of fascism and was chairman of the preparatory committee of the VVN Berlin from 1946 to 1947 . Landwehr was later Vice President of the German Central Bank.

After his death he was buried on the Pergolenweg cemetery in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .

publication

  • Claim, lawsuit, judgment and enforcement on legal procurement , Würzburg, 1913

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 574

Web links

Commons : Hermann Landwehr  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sozialistenfriedhof.de/61.html Retrieved July 18, 2011
  2. ↑ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 . Volume 2, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0 , p. 324
  3. ^ Ralf Banken: The German Gold Reserves and Foreign Exchange Policy 1933-1939 . In: Peter Hampe, Albrecht Ritschl: New results on the NS upswing. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 67
  4. ↑ Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 574
  5. ↑ http://www.sozialistenfriedhof.de/61.html Retrieved July 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Landwehr, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, ministerial official and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1955
Place of death East Berlin