Kurt Matthaei

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Kurt Matthaei (born February 4, 1886 in Nienburg / Weser ; † March 19, 1974 in Lüneburg ) was a German lawyer, municipal civil servant and right-wing politician ( NSDAP / SRP / DRP ).

Life

Kurt Matthaei was the son of the Lord Mayor of Hamm Richard Matthaei . After graduating from high school in Hamm, he studied political science and law at the Universities of Göttingen and Münster . As a one-year volunteer , he did military service and took part in the First World War from 1914 . After the end of the war he worked in the Dortmund local government, from which he left in May 1930. Then he was an official representative in Marl .

From 1926 he belonged to the DVP. From the DVP he switched to the NSDAP in early November 1932 . He was elected to the Provincial Parliament for Westphalia in 1933 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he took over the post of Reich Commissioner for Schaumburg-Lippe in March 1933 and became an authorized representative at the Reichsrat . As early as April 1933 he became district administrator in the Recklinghausen district . From 1933 to 1935 he was the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare . In June 1933 he moved to Münster , where he was initially acting and then officially as district president. In October 1934 he was transferred to Lüneburg as district president , where he held this position until the beginning of 1943. In Lüneburg he also took over the chairmanship of the NSDAP party court from 1936 to 1938 and from December 1939 to March 1941 the post of Commissioner of the Racial Political Office .

During the Second World War in July 1943 he was appointed special representative of the Kiev headquarters. In March 1944 he was put on hold.

After the end of the war he was interned in the UK, from which he was released in October 1947. He was for a denazification process first end of October 1948 as a minor-loaded denazified and as relieved in March 1951st After joining the SRP, he was a candidate for the state parliament in Lower Saxony and district leader for this party . In 1952, when the SRP was banned, he was banned from speaking. After the SRP ban in 1952, he took over the chairmanship of the working group for truth and justice and was involved in the founding of the SRP substitute organization Independent Communal Political Unit (KEB) in Lüneburg; After running for this party, criminal proceedings were initiated against him in 1954. In 1953 he joined the German Construction Association (DAV). For the Bundestag elections in 1953 and 1957 he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the DRP in the Bundestag constituency of Lüneburg - Dannenberg (No. 35). In 1958 he was a founding member of the Free Socialist People's Party (FSVP). Finally he joined the NPD. In November 1958 he fought for the pension of a district administrator before the Higher Administrative Court.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernd Haunfelder: The Münster government presidents of the 20th century. District government Münster 2006, p. 40 ff.
  2. ^ A b Evangelical Working Group for Church Contemporary History (Ed.): Documents on Church Policy of the Third Reich: Vol. V: 1939-1945 The time of the Second World War (September 1939 – May 1945). Volume 5, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008, p. 619 f.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 394.
  4. ↑ Hedwig Schrulle: Administration in dictatorship and democracy: the district governments of Münster and Minden / Detmold from 1930 to 1960. Schöningh, 2008, p. 668.
personal data
SURNAME Matthaei, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and municipal civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg / Weser
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1974
Place of death Luneburg