Karl Wiehe

Karl Friedrich Maximilian Wiehe (born June 6, 1882 in Braunschweig , † August 6, 1947 in Bückeburg ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( DNVP ).

Life

Karl Wiehe was born as the son of the architect and building officer Ernst Wiehe (1842-1894) and Luise Vetterlein. After attending a secondary school in Braunschweig, he began studying law, which he completed in 1903 with the first state examination in law. With an interruption from 1904 to 1905, during which he did military service as a one-year volunteer , he completed his legal clerkship. In 1909 he passed the second state examination in law. He then joined the Brunswick civil service as a government assessor. He first worked at the district directorate in Wolfenbüttel and later worked as a legal advisor to the city administration in Helmstedt . On September 16, 1912, he was elected mayor of the city of Bückeburg as the successor to Wilhelm Külz . From 1914 until his discharge from army service in 1918, he took part in the First World War as a soldier . First he was deployed on the Western Front, then moved to the Eastern Front in 1915 .

During the November Revolution , Wiehe was a member of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Bückeburg. From there he was elected to the state assembly of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe in 1918, of which he was a member until 1919. In the state election in May 1925, he ran on the unified list of DVP , DNVP and Landbund . He won a mandate in the Schaumburg-Lippische Landtag , but had to resign one year later, as he was a member of the state government from June 22, 1926 to October 6, 1927.

In the state elections in April 1928, Wiehe, as a candidate on the DNVP and Landbund list, won another mandate as a member of the state parliament. Although he supported the connection of Schaumburg-Lippe to the Free State of Prussia , he resigned his mandate on February 18, 1930, shortly before the third state parliament vote on the affiliation agreement. For him, the opponent Conrad Heinrich Bothe moved up. As a result, the treaty lacked the necessary parliamentary majority.

In the period that followed, Wiehe was sharply criticized in the media, in particular by the editor-in-chief of the Schaumburg-Lippische Landeszeitung and NSDAP parliamentarian Adolf Manns . He lost his mayor's office in Bückeburg in 1935 when he was given leave of absence for political reasons. He took early retirement in April 1936.

Honors

• The street Wieheweg in Bückeburg was named after Karl Wiehe .

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 391.

Web links

• Karl Wiehe in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic