Kurt Woelck

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Kurt Woelck (1902)

Kurt Woelck (born November 12, 1882 in Thorn , West Prussia , † September 7, 1958 in Gütersloh ) was a German administrative and business lawyer. As a municipal official, he was the last Lord Mayor of Spandau .

Life

After graduating from high school in Thorner , Woelck studied law at the University of Leipzig . As Woelck III he became a member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig in 1902 . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . After he had passed the legal traineeship there in 1904, he entered the administration of justice in the Kingdom of Prussia . After the assessor examination he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD .

Local government

In 1909 he switched to the Prussian municipal administration as a government assessor and became a city ​​councilor in Frankfurt (Oder) . On April 1, 1914, he was appointed to the city council in Spandau. With the end of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles , the city lost its function as a center of the German armaments industry . The consequences were high unemployment and severe housing shortages. At this critical time, the USPD and the SPD competed as the strongest parties in the Spandau city ​​council . Woelck's German Democratic Party had won 17% of the vote. Nevertheless, the city council elected the proven expert Woelck almost unanimously in 1919 as Friedrich Koeltze's successor as Lord Mayor .

As the last mayor of the independent Spandau, Woelck had to join the newly formed urban community of Greater Berlin in 1921 . He rejected the election of the simple mayor of the new Spandau district .

Board member in business associations

At the time of the Weimar Republic he sat on the boards of important business associations . In 1929 he became a managing board member of the German Book Printers Association in Leipzig. After the victory of the NSDAP in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , he had to give up the office. He returned to Berlin and did not find a job in private transport until 1937 . After the Second World War , in which his two sons fell, he devoted himself to building up the private railway system . He became a managing board member of the Association of German Non-Federal Railways .

Since April 1, 1955 he has been living in retirement in Lette (Oelde) and most recently in Gütersloh.

His brother Carl Woelck was mayor of Weißensee near Berlin from 1905 to 1919 .

Honors

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Bannasch: Dr. Kurt Woelck - last Lord Mayor of Spandau (1919–1921) . Bulletin of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg 99 (1998), pp. 6–12
  • Matthias Kunert: embezzlement of a Lord Mayor . Berliner Zeitung of March 26, 1997 (about an exhibition in Berlin-Spandau)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3/725
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Is the consent of the person employed as a quasi-pupillary substitute before January 1, 1900 required in order to cancel a paid estate mortgage? .
  3. ^ Christian Hanke: Self-administration and socialism: Carl Herz, a social democrat (= Hamburg working group for regional history [Hrsg.]: Publications of the Hamburg working group for regional history . Volume 23 ). LIT Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9547-5 , p. 145, 146 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ M. Kunert (1997)
  5. ↑ Own handwritten information on the curriculum vitae in the Corps Lusatia archive.
  6. ↑ Berlin memory (luise)
personal data
SURNAME Woelck, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woelck, Kurt Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative and business lawyer; Lord Mayor of Spandau
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1958
Place of death Gütersloh , East Westphalia