Kurt Wachsmann

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Kurt Ludwig Erhard Wachsmann (born May 6, 1886 in Doktorowo , Graetz district , Posen province ; † August 31, 1944 in Ružinov ) was a German lawyer and civil servant.

Life

Wachsmann was a son of the Prussian district court director Adolph Wachsmann and his wife Elisabeth, née Schwinning. After attending school, Wachsmann studied law . After passing the first state examination in law, he began his legal preparatory service as a court trainee in 1909. In 1910 he received his doctorate with a thesis on a special issue of civil law to Dr. jur. In 1914 he passed the Great State Examination in Law and was appointed court assessor. In the same year, on May 25, 1914, he married Olga Perlitz (1887–1944), the daughter of a hotelier, in Heinersdorf near Landsberg an der Warthe .

From 1915 on, Wachsmann took part in the First World War. In 1917 he was appointed judge- martial in Lötzen and police judge in Riga . In 1918 he was promoted to district judge there.

After the war, Wachsmann joined the Berlin State Police Office as an unskilled worker. Later that year he moved to the Reich Ministry of Finance as a government assessor , where he was promoted to government councilor in 1920. As a personal advisor to the Reich Minister of Finance Matthias Erzberger , he helped significantly in the implementation of the so-called Erzberger Reform . In 1922 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council and in 1924 to the Ministerial Council.

When the previous Reich Minister of Finance, Hans Luther, was appointed Reich Chancellor in 1925, he took Wachsmann with him to the Reich Chancellery as a personal confidante, where from then on he assumed the post of speaker.

In October 1926, Wachsmann returned to the Reich Ministry of Finance as Ministerialrat, where he was promoted to Ministerial Director in 1928. In 1930 he moved to the Reich Ministry of Food as a department head with the rank of ministerial director . In 1930 and 1931, Wachsmann acted as the representative of the Reich Commissioner for Eastern Aid in the eastern section of the Reich Chancellery. In his study of the late phase of the Weimar Republic, Gerhard Schulz came to the conclusion that, although Wachsmann was not the initiator of Osthilfe, it was nevertheless significantly involved in its “development and organization”.

In 1932 he was put into temporary retirement, but reactivated that same year as acting head of the Schleswig-Holstein state tax office.

Around 1935, Wachsmann can be verified as a member of the board of directors of the German financial institute (Finag) founded in December 1932 . He was also director of the repayment fund for commercial loans (Tilka) at that time . The aim of the two institutes was to increase the willingness of German banks to borrow in order to overcome the consequences of the global economic crisis . Wachsmann was also a member of the supervisory board of the First Bohemian Artificial Silk Factory .

In 1942, Wachsmann became the 494th member of the lawless society in Berlin , which was founded in 1809 .

Wachsmann was shot on a trip on August 31, 1944 together with his wife and seventy other people during the Slovak National Uprising in Rosenheim , Slovakia .

Fonts

  • Is the registration permit of § 19 GBO a disposition within the meaning of civil law? Dissertation, University of Rostock, 1910
  • The new Russian penal code of March 22, 1903, in the version resulting from the criminal law ordinances in the administrative area of ​​Upper East . Publishing house I. Guttentag , Berlin 1918
  • Critical to the new Reich budget plan , in: Der Deutsche Volkswirt 3 (1928/29) pp. 959–962
  • Economic problems of the Neue Osthilfe , in: Deutsche Wirtschaftszeitung Heft 9, 1931, 193–196
  • The Osthilfegesetz and its agricultural problems , in: German agricultural policy in the context of internal and external economic policy , Verlag von Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1932, vol. 2, pp. 136–70

literature

  • Kurt Wachsmann , In: Degeners Who is it? , Vol. 10, Verlag Herrmann Degener , Berlin 1935, p. 1664 f.
  • Maximillian Müller-Jabusch: Handbook of Public Life .: State, Politics, Economy, Transport, Church, Press , 1931, p. 305.
  • Peter Christian Witt: “Conservatism as 'non-partisan'. The officials of the Reich Chancellery between the Empire and the Weimar Republic 1900-1933 ”, in: Dirk Stegmann (Ed.): German Conservatism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Fritz Fischer on his 75th birthday and on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate , Berlin 1983, p. 277.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data and picture in the lawless society in Berlin
  2. ^ Edmund Clingan: The Lives of Hans Luther, 1879-1962. German Chancellor, Reichsbank President, and Hitler's Ambassador , Lanham 2010, p. 56.
  3. ^ Gerhard Schulz: Between Democracy and Dictatorship. Constitutional Policy and Reich Reform in the Weimar Republic , 1992, pp. 211f.
  4. ^ Chronological list of members of the lawless society in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Wachsmann, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachsmann, Erhard Ludwig Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Doktorowo , Graetz District , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1944
Place of death Ružinov