Karl Kleikamp

Karl Ferdinand Kleikamp (born August 28, 1894 in Fiddichow on the Oder , Greifenhagen district , † June 11, 1952 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Karl Kleikamp was a son of the doctor Karl Kleikamp and his wife Anna, geb. Kletzin. He passed his Abitur in Belgard an der Persante in 1912 and then - like his younger brother Gustav Kleikamp - started an officer career in the Prussian army . In World War I he was wounded in 1915 and came at the end of the war in Russian captivity . Kleikamp retired as a captain from the army and studied law and political science at the universities of Berlin and Greifswald . In 1925 he married the future politician Katherine Kleikamp (1897–1988). In 1928 he joined the SPD and in 1931 the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . After the second state examination in law in 1929, he worked in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior .

In the course of the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists , Kleikamp was initially transferred and retired in 1934, citing the “ Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ”. In 1939 he became legal clerk at the C. Lorenz company in Berlin-Tempelhof and in 1942 he was assigned to the raw materials business office.

After the Second World War , Kleikamp became a judge at the Tiergarten District Court in May 1945 . Alongside Erich Gniffke , Otto Grotewohl , Gustav Dahrendorf and others, a month later, on June 15, he published the call to found the " Central Committee of the SPD " in the Soviet-occupied part of Germany. From August of that year, Kleikamp was Vice President of the German Central Administration of Justice in the Soviet zone of occupation . In 1947 he was elected District Councilor for Finance and Deputy District Mayor in the ( West Berlin ) district of Tiergarten .

When the Free University of Berlin was founded in July 1948, Kleikamp was commissioned to organize a new law and political science faculty (“Kleikamp Committee”). He was able to win over well-known lawyers, for example Siegfried Loewenthal , Gerhard Nehlert (1912–1990), Johannes Eylau , Ernst Knoll (1889–1965) and Ernst Strassmann .

In the Berlin election in 1950 , Kleikamp was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, but due to increasing health problems he resigned in March 1952. He held the office of district councilor until his death.

The funeral speech was held by the chairman of the SPD Berlin, Franz Neumann .

literature

• Heinz Rieter: The Faculty of Law, Economics and Economics and Social Sciences in the first decade of the Free University of Berlin. Pp. 125-132. In: Karol Kubicki , Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The ancient and art studies at the Free University of Berlin. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0427-8 .
• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 144 (331 pages).