Justus consecration

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Justus August Jacob Alexander Hellmut consecration (* 10. March 1891 in frets ; † 4. January 1980 in Siegen ) was a German jurist and district administrator of the district of Siegen .

Life and work

Weihe was born as the youngest son of the Prussian judge and Conservative MP Hermann Weihe and his wife Laura Maria Emilie Henriette, née Steinmeister, in the Westphalian town of Bünde. There he attended elementary school, then Latin school and, after his father got a position as a local judge in Kassel, the Wilhelmsgymnasium . A grandfather was also a judge, and his mother's brothers were senior government officials. Weihe followed the guidelines of male relatives after graduating with a law degree in Lausanne , Munich and Marburg . The men represented a homogeneous professional milieu, the family in the social hierarchy the upper educated, conservative middle class and thus a classic Prussian-Protestant civil servant and legal milieu overall.

Weihe passed the legal traineeship exam in 1913, then worked at a local court and, after volunteering, took part in the First World War from the beginning to the end . In December 1919 he passed the second state examination in law. In 1921 he became a Regierungsassessor the district president in Koblenz adjusted, moved in 1923 to a temporary government president in Wetzlar and 1929 to Oberpräsident in Koblenz, where he worked as a government and head of the department for police matters by the end of the 1930th In 1921 he married Anna Klara Karoline Bertelsmann. His wife was the daughter of the deceased former owner of the Ravensberger spinning mill in Bielefeld, Conrad Bertelsmann, an important entrepreneur from one of the Bielefeld “patrician families”, co-founder of the Langnam Association . He had two children with her. His widowed mother-in-law married again, now the Gelnhausen District Administrator Conrad Delius. Professionally, from October 1931, a position as district administrator for the Simmern district followed . The Rhine province was Catholic, and in the southern half there were only four predominantly Protestant districts, one of which was Simmern .

In the central party archive of the NSDAP it is documented for a possible "appointment of comrade Justus Weihe" for the 1920s or also for 1930 that he had "proved himself politically and characteristically through his commitment". Context and date are unclear. It is certain that Weihe joined the national liberal German People's Party (DVP) when he moved to Simmern . It is not known whether he had an active role and / or functions there. At the same time he became a member of various social associations such as the Hunsrücker Wanderverein, the Kreisfischerverein, the elite German Hunters' Association or the Kyffhäuserbund . Here he was elected district chairman.

On May 1, 1933, consecration in Simmern was accepted into the NSDAP . He became a supporting member of the SS and the professional organization National Socialist Legal Guardian Association (NSRB) as well as the Reich Association of German Civil Servants and the National Socialist People's Welfare .

In February 1936 he acted as the temporary successor to the district administrator of the Siegen district, Gerhard Melcher (1935/36). From mid-September 1936 to 1945 he officially held this position. It was a move to the top of a region that was more important in terms of population, economic structure and relevance. In the Siegerland, Weihe took over the party office of the district office leader right and at the same time the district chairmanship of the NSRB.

In 1938, his wife's Jewish ancestors became public at least within the party. His membership in the NSDAP was thus called into question. Adolf Hitler personally confirmed to him in an exceptional decision (“Führer's Decree”, December 20, 1938) that despite “his wife's non-Aryan descent ... he could continue to belong to the NSDAP without restriction of membership rights”. In October 1938 his transfer to the Magdeburg government, planned for September 1937, had finally failed, as local district and district leaders protested against it.

Shortly after the beginning of the Second World War , Weihe took on provisional functions in German-occupied Poland until 1940 : in the seat of the government in Kalisch im Warthegau, that of the district president, in Radom , capital of the district of the same name in the general government, that of the district chief .

From there he returned to his previous position in the Siegen District Office and also took over the representation of District Administrator Herbert Evers in Olpe from January to May 1941 and also the duties of District Administrator Heinrich Jansen in Berleburg from mid-January to early February 1942 . In 1941 he was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd Class.

Consecration becomes a topic there for the final phase of National Socialism and war. Weihe described himself and his activities as the heroic savior of the people and towns in these two or three days before the occupation by the US Army in his denazification process. His contemporary Wilhelm Münker , co-founder of the German Youth Hostel Association , strongly contradicts this . Together with Weihe, Münker visited Generals König and Enge, about whom the regional historical literature reports only little, in his car, to tell them about the senselessness and danger of further military actions, but above all of the state “Nero order” to deport the regional ones To convince people and to scorched earth in Siegerland. During these two journeys Weihe was afraid for himself and, as it is said, his car. In evaluating the sources, the historian Rainer S. Elkar describes him as a courageous, powerless and unsolicited companion Münker, who had to be "forced" by him to accompany him.

After the war ended, Weihe was arrested and interned by the British military government as contaminated by the Nazis . His accounts were blocked and he was fired. For the subsequent denazification process he was initially provisionally classified by the military government in Category III, the most unfavorable classification in the mass proceedings . In the further course and with the transfer of the categorization to German committees, the classification was improved step by step until it ended with the follower category IV at V (“exonerated”). However, consecration was not allowed back into service. He was now working as a lawyer in Siegen.

He was succeeded by Fritz Fries .

The contemporary historian Rainer S. Elkar , who dealt intensively with the Nazi history of the region, counted in 1992 as a result of a comprehensive presentation together with some senior party, SS and SA leaders as the regional "particularly prominent representatives" of the NS Regimes.

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 , zugl .: Jena, Univ., Diss., 2008, p. 509. Roth calls it Albert [sic!] Weihe.
  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46): Biographisches Handbuch . Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 , p. 306
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 805 .
  • Reinhold Zilch, Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38 . Vol. 12, April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938 (= Acta Borussica, New Series . Ed. By the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Vol. 2). Hildesheim 2004, p. 725

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , No. 2469, p. 408.
  2. ^ A b Thomas Ormond: Dignity and loyalty to the government: service law, political activity and disciplining of judges in Prussia, Baden and Hesse 1866-1891 . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main p. 631.
  3. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch , Münster 2004, p. 306.
  4. ↑ a b c Ulrich F. Opfermann: Justus Weihe (1891-1960). District Administrator of the Siegen District 1936-1939 and 1941-1944 , 2014.
  5. ^ LVR: Portal Rhenish History . Culture and society. The development in the religious field, see: Portal Rheinische Geschichte .
  6. ^ A b VVN-BdA Siegerland-Wittgenstein: Justus Weihe . In: Regional Personal Lexicon on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein , 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , 2009, p. 509.
  8. ↑ Rainer S. Elkar (arrangement and ed.): People, Houses, Fates. Hilchenbach between monarchy, dictatorship and republic . The Wielandschmiede, Kreuztal 1992, p. 284.
  9. ^ Rainer S. Elkar: People - Houses - Fates. Hilchenbach between monarchy, dictatorship and republic. Kreuztal 1992, p. 291.
predecessor Office successor
Gerhard Melcher (substitute) District Administrator of the District of Siegen
1936–1939 		Heinrich Jansen
personal data
SURNAME Consecration, Justus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Consecration, Justus August Jakob Alexander Hellmut (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Frets
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1980
Place of death Wins