Hermann Petzke
Hermann Petzke (born April 21, 1907 in Schlochau , West Prussia , † unknown) was a German national politician of the NSDAP . From 1936 to 1940 he was the district mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf .
Life
Petzke attended high school in Marienburg and came to Berlin in 1925, where he became a member of the NSDAP in 1926. He studied law in Berlin , Jena and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1929 . The topic of the dissertation was The Influence of the Bankruptcy of the Buying and Sales Commissioner on the Commission Ratio with Regular Commission Execution . In 1934 he became deputy mayor of Spandau and in April of the same year provisional district councilor of the Steglitz district office . On January 16, 1936, Petzke took over the function of a new first district councilor in Wilmersdorf. He was responsible for personnel matters (Personnel City Council) as well as for the garden department including the cemetery and crematorium matters. He also became head of the press department. In 1936 he became head of the Gau legal office of the NSDAP.
District Mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf
After Emil Franke's term of office had ended , State Commissioner Julius Lippert appointed the then 28-year-old National Socialist mayor of the Wilmersdorf administrative district on December 23, 1936. Petzke played a major role in the “de-Jewing campaign”, the implementation of the ordinance to eliminate Jews from German economic life in Wilmersdorf.
Further career
In 1940 he was appointed to the main administration as a city councilor and entrusted with the management of the main economic and main food office. A year later, Petzke also took over the management of the Landeswirtschaftsamt Berlin and in 1942 the management of the war economic staff at the Reich Defense Commissioner. In May 1944 he was entrusted with the management of the state administration for the Reich capital (district president of Berlin).
literature
- Hainer Weißpflug: Petzke, Hermann . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7759-0479-4 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
- Berlin's district mayor . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 1997, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 120–127 ( luise-berlin.de - here p. 124).
Web links
- Picture from Petzke at gettyimages.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Inaugural dissertation by Hermann Petzke in the Google book search
Karl Augustin (1921–1924) | Emil Franke (1924–1936) | Hermann Petzke (1936–1940) | Hans Hättasch (1940–1943) | Bruno Willenbücher (1945) | Gerhard Lichter (1945–1946) | Otto Ostrowski (1946) | Walter Rieck (1946–1951) | Wolfgang Rect (1951–1955) | Ottomar Batzel (1955) | Wilhelm Dumstrey (1956–1964) | Gerhard Schmidt (1965–1971) | Heribert Baumann (1971–1979) | Henning von der Lancken (1979–1981) | Horst Dohm (1981-1996) | Michael Wrasmann (1996-2000)
Since January 1, 2001, the Wilmersdorf district has been part of the new Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petzke, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), former district mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlochau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |