Mark von Wietersheim

Mark Bertold Hans August von Wietersheim (born October 25, 1897 in Neuland , district of Löwenberg in Silesia , † 1969 ) was a German farmer , landowner and politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

He was the son of the mayor and owner of the Neuland manor, Walter von Wietersheim (1863-1919). His younger brother was later Lieutenant General Wend von Wietersheim (1900-1975).

Wietersheim attended grammar schools in Lauban and Brandenburg an der Havel until 1914 and then took part in the First World War as a soldier . He was first a lieutenant in the Guard Cuirassier Regiment and later an aircraft observer in the Field Aviator Department No. 14 . In 1918 he was taken prisoner by the English, from which he was released in 1919. In the same year he also resigned from the army. During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class.

Wietersheim began studying law and economics at the University of Breslau in 1920 , then switched to forest science, which he studied at the Eberswalde Forest Academy and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1923 he was appointed agricultural and forestry representative in Neuland, where he subsequently lived as a manor owner and farmer.

Wietersheim joined the NSDAP in 1929. From March to October 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament .

Wietersheim ran on the nomination for the NSDAP in the election to the German Reichstag on November 12, 1933, but did not enter the National Socialist Reichstag . From 1933 to 1945 he was the district administrator of the Löwenberg i. Schles. active. During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

In 1957 he lived as District Administrator a. D. in Friedrichsaue near Zierenberg .

literature

• Walter Greiff: The Boberhaus in Löwenberg / Silesia 1933-1937, Sigmaringen 1985, p. 132.
• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 399.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume 17, 1957, p. 231