Kurt Wagner (lawyer)

Kurt Wagner (born August 8, 1885 in Arnstadt , † October 26, 1962 in Bad Kösen ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Born the son of a senior teacher, Wagner studied law in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Göttingen after attending the Princely High School in Arnstadt . During his studies in 1904 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . After exams and legal clerkship he became a court assessor in 1912 , was employed in the ministry in Sondershausen until 1913 and as a court assessor and district administrator in Gehren until 1914 . From 1914 to 1919 he worked as a government assessor and district administrator. From 1919 to 1922 he was district administrator in Gehren, then until 1923 government councilor and lecturer in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior in Weimar . From 1923 on he was a senior government councilor before he took over the Altenburg district office in 1930 . In Weimar in 1926, among other things, he drafted the state administrative regulations for the new state of Thuringia , for which he also wrote a commentary. In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP (No. 3022071). In 1934 he became a member of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists and the Nazi Legal Guards Association as well as of the Nazi People's Welfare . In 1945 he was released by the Americans.

Honors

• Princely Schwarzburg Cross of Honor , 3rd class with broken oak
• 1914/15: Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid
• Iron Cross II on a white and black ribbon
• Cross of Honor of the Thuringian Fire Brigade Association

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 186-187.