Karl Heinz Kaltenborn

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Karl Heinz Kaltenborn (born May 12, 1906 in Schwerin ; † unknown) was a German business lawyer and CDU politician.

Life

Karl Heinz Kaltenborn attended grammar school in Schwerin and, after graduating in 1925, trained as a businessman in Hamburg . He then studied law and economics in Göttingen, Munich and Rostock . The 1930 legal traineeship was followed by a doctorate at the University of Rostock in January 1931 . After the assessor exam in 1934, Kaltenborn worked as an in-house counsel at the Deutsche Rentenbank-Kreditanstalt in Berlin. A promotion to director was not due to his refusal to join the NSDAP . In 1937 he moved to the legal department of the business group outpatient trade in the Reichsgruppe Handel. Kaltenborn took part in the French campaign as a simple soldier and was then obliged to serve as a consultant at the Heereswaffenamt in Berlin. In July 1945 Kaltenborn moved to Schwerin and took over the management of the legal and financial department in the state administration. The department was later attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Karl Heinz Kaltenborn joined the CDU in December 1945 . Due to the above-average performance of the Mecklenburg CDU in the state elections in 1946, he entered the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and was elected deputy parliamentary group chairman. Since 1946 he was also a member of the state executive committee of the Union. Together with Economics Minister Siegfried Witte , Kaltenborn fought against the abuse of denazification for the purpose of nationalizing larger companies. He therefore quickly came into conflict with the communist interior minister Johannes Warnke , who organized the social transformation in the north of the Soviet occupation zone. Warnke feared the business lawyer Kaltenborn because of his expertise, but was able to get his discharge from the state service at the end of 1948. Kaltenborn settled in Schwerin as a lawyer and remained a sharp critic of the burgeoning SED regime in the state parliament. He tried in vain to endure the erosion of parliamentary rights and the politicization of the judiciary. Kaltenborn finally resigned from the state parliament and the CDU as part of the party purge in 1950. He fled to the Federal Republic and resettled in Krefeld as a lawyer. After Werner Jöhren's death , Kaltenborn took over the office of spokesman for the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft in the CDU in exile .

Works

  • The claim secured by a note. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Rostock . Rostock 1931

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Karl Heinz Kaltenborn in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

  • Klaus Schwabe: State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Booklet accompanying an exhibition in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament from August 28 to October 20, 1996 . Schwerin, p. 91
  • Damian van Melis: Denazification in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: rule and administration 1945–1948 . Munich 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Kaltenborn, Karl Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaltenborn, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business lawyer and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH after 1950