Johannes Weidemann

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the mathematician of the 15th century, alternatively written in this way, see Johannes Widmann (mathematician) .

Johannes Weidemann (born August 15, 1897 in Pförten , † August 21, 1954 in Hamm ) was a German lawyer, politician ( NSDAP ) and SS leader . From 1933 to 1945 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Halle (Saale) .

Life

As the son of a senior post office manager, Weidemann attended school in Kassel and, after graduating from high school, took part in the First World War from 1915 to 1919 . He was discharged from the army with the rank of non-commissioned officer, and during the war he was also awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class . He then studied law and political science , philosophy and art history at the University of Marburg and then in Berlin .

In 1922 he received his doctorate in political science, a year later he passed the first state examination in law and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He passed the second state examination in law in Berlin in 1926 and was then a court assessor. He then worked as a lawyer in Kassel.

Weidemann joined the NSDAP on August 1, 1931 ( membership number 593.845). In 1931 he became head of the district organization in Kassel, headed the legal department and the department for race and culture in the district of Hessen-Nassau and was a district leader in the National Socialist Lawyers' Association .

On April 1, 1933, Weidemann was appointed Lord Mayor of the City of Halle as the successor to Richard Robert Rives , who had been relieved of his duties "for reasons of age". Weidemann held this position until he was dismissed in 1945. From 1936, Weidemann was the deputy chairman of the German Municipal Association . He also chaired the committee for local law at the Academy for German Law . He was also deputy head of the main office for local politics in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP.

Weidemann was involved in the publication of a commentary on the German municipal code and was the sole editor of the "Writings on German municipal policy". In 1937 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . After he was already a sponsoring member of the SS , he was accepted into the SS as Obersturmbannführer in 1937. In the SS he reached the rank of standard leader in 1941.

After the end of the Second World War , Weidemann was arrested and later released from his professorship at the University of Halle. In 1948 in Bielefeld , Weidemann was denazified by a conviction in an arbitration chamber .

In Bad Berleburg he worked after the war as a lawyer.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Weidemann, Johannes, Dr. rer. pole. Dr. iur. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of Health Care" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, p. 511.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Weidemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Johannes Weidemann in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 Heads - Who Was Was in the Third Reich , Kiel 2000, 440
2. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 661