Horst von Restorff

Horst von Restorff

Horst von Restorff (born December 8, 1880 in Lindenau , East Prussia , † April 27, 1953 in Lübeck ) was a German officer , landowner and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Horst von Restorff came from the old Mecklenburg noble family von Restorff . He was born on December 8, 1880, the son of the landowner Detlev Cord von Restorff (1840–1909) on Gut Lindenau near Braunsberg . After attending the secondary school in Dessau between 1894 and 1899, he initially embarked on a military career and was an active soldier in the Guard Jäger Battalion in Potsdam from 1899 to 1907. He left the service as a lieutenant. From 1907 to 1909 he was the tenant of the Koppenow and Bonswirt estates in the Lauenburg district (Pomerania). From 1907 he managed his father's Lindenau estate and became the owner in 1909. He took part in the First World War as a soldier , most recently as captain of the reserve. After the Second World War he moved to West Germany as a displaced person and settled in Holstein .

politics

Restorff, who had joined the DNVP and was chairman of the provincial association of the DNVP in East Prussia from 1920 to 1929, was a deputy member of the Prussian State Council during the Weimar Republic , a member of the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia and a member of the district council and district deputy of the Heiligenbeil district . In the Reichstag election in July 1932 he was elected to the German Reichstag , to which he belonged until November 1933. In parliament he represented constituency 1 (East Prussia).

During the time of National Socialism he was a supporter of the Confessing Church . In June 1939 he was recorded in the SD overview "leading men of the system time (right opposition and reaction)".

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 13.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 131.
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 46, digitized

Web links

• Horst von Restorff in the database of members of the Reichstag