Kurt Janthur

Kurt Janthur (born August 27, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 23, 1995 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer , forester and politician .

Life

As the son of a drugstore owner, Janthur studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Frankfurt after attending the Goethe-Gymnasium in Frankfurt. During his studies in 1927 he became a member of the Freiburg fraternity of Teutonia . In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SS . After exams and legal clerkship, he became assessor and later personal assistant to Reich Governor Jakob Sprenger at the Hessian state government in 1935 . In 1938 he was Councilor . In the Wehrmacht he became a telecommunications officer and intelligence officer , and in 1939 he was a lieutenant in the reserve in the 263rd Infantry Division , with which he took part in the Second World War from 1939 . He became governor of Poltava and in 1942 district administrator in the Büdingen district . In 1944 he was promoted to captain of the reserve and major . He became company commander of the 2nd Intelligence Department and was taken prisoner by the Americans after the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 .

In 1946 he was released to the French zone and then worked as a forest worker in the Saiger forest cooperative. In 1946 he began studying forest science in Freiburg, which he finished in 1949 as a qualified forest manager. Until 1951 he worked as a businessman at the Freiburg branch of the French occupation, before founding his own company COMEUROP . He later became managing director of the Hessian Forest Owners Association for the non-state Hessian forests. He became forest director. He was involved in the traditional association of the 263rd Division, with which he organized, among other things, meetings with the former opponent of the 32nd French Infantry Brigade.

Honors

• Silver plaque of honor from the Hessian Forest Ministry

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 15-16.