Ludwig Osthelder

Ludwig Osthelder (born November 29, 1877 in Frankenthal ; † February 9, 1954 in Kochel am See ) was a Bavarian lawyer and administrative officer .

Life and work

Ludwig Osthelder, who came from the Bavarian Palatinate, studied law in Munich and entered the Bavarian civil service in 1905. In 1914/15 he served in the First World War. In 1920 he was appointed to the senior government council and in 1923 to the ministerial councilor as legal advisor for elementary schools and vocational schools. In 1932 he became president of the district government of the Palatinate . When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was put into temporary retirement and moved back to Munich. From 1943 he lived in Kochel. On May 23, 1945 he was appointed regional president of Upper Bavaria by the mayor of Munich, Karl Scharnagl , and was confirmed by the Allied military government on May 24 . He retired on December 31, 1948. Osthelder died in Kochel am See in 1954 .

From 1919/20 to 1922 Osthelder was a member of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP), from 1949 to 1951 chairman of the Munich Entomological Society and chairman of the regional association of the Palatinate in Bavaria, which was founded in Munich in 1949 .

Osthelder is the great-grandfather of the asset manager and ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Christian Freiherr von Mauchenheim, known as Bechtolsheim .

literature

• Joachim Lilla: Osthelder, Ludwig , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria 1918 to 1945, online (September 11, 2012).