Max Wallraf

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Max Wallraf

Ludwig Theodor Ferdinand Max Wallraf (born September 18, 1859 in Cologne , † September 6, 1941 in Oberstdorf ) was German State Secretary of the Reich Office of the Interior (Minister of the Interior) , politician ( DNVP ) and President of the Reichstag .

Life

Max Wallraf graduated from the Apostle High School before studying law in Bonn, Heidelberg and Leipzig from 1878 to 1881. In Bonn he was treasurer of the K.St.V. from 1878 to 1879. Arminia Bonn in KV . Because of his glowing enthusiasm for Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , he had to leave Arminia, but in his memoirs he expressly referred to his membership as a student at Arminia. In the summer semester of 1880 he returned to Bonn and joined a powerful association, the “Academic Jurists Association” (from 1932 Academic Association Rheno-Colonia - today: Bonn - in Miltenberger Ring) and was “first.” In the winter semester 1880/81 he was “first "Of the" young club brothers ". Max Wallraf was married to Emma Kesselkaul († 1892) in his first marriage. His second wife was Anna Pauli († 1932). He had three sons.

Political activity

After his traineeship in Upper Silesia and Berlin, Wallraf was a government assessor in Aachen from 1887 to 1888 and district administrator in Malmedy from 1889 to 1894 . He held the same office one more time in St. Goar from 1896 to 1899. Eventually he became police chief in Aachen from 1900 to 1903 and from October 1, 1907 to August 8, 1917, Lord Mayor of Cologne . He was also a member of the 1st Chamber (mansion) in Prussia from 1907 to 1917 .

During the First World War, Max Wallraf and Princess Viktoria handed over the 3 meter high wooden figure of the “Kölsche Boor” (Cologne farmer) created by Wolfgang Wallner in front of the Gürzenich. For the benefit of Cologne war widows and war orphans, you could drive a nail into the wooden figure for at least one mark. Almost 1.6 million marks were raised and the wooden “Kölsche Boor” became “ Dä kölsche Boor en Iser ” (the Cologne farmer in iron).

Max Wallraf - family burial site

From October 23, 1917 to October 7, 1918, Max Wallraf was State Secretary in the Reich Office of the Interior . Wallraf joined the DNVP when it was founded in 1918. From 1921 to 1924 he was a member of the state parliament in the Prussian state parliament for his party. In May 1924 Wallraf was elected to the German Reichstag for the DNVP in constituency 20 Cologne-Aachen and was its president until 1925 . Until 1930 he had a seat in parliament as a member of parliament.

Since May 1, 1933, he was a member of the NSDAP .

Wallraf died in 1941 a few days before his 82nd birthday and was buried in the family grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (MA, between HWG and Lit. P).

family

Max Wallraf was the uncle of Emma Weyer , the first wife of the future Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . District Administrator Friedrich Gorius was a nephew.

Naming

In Oberstdorf ( Allgäu Alps ) a hiking trail is named after Max Wallraf. Max Wallraf was often a guest in Oberstdorf during his lifetime and suggested creating a high-altitude path on the west side of the Rubihorn . This was realized and is still used today as one of the most popular hiking trails in Oberstdorf, which at medium altitude repeatedly provides sustainable views of Oberstdorf, its districts and the upper Illertal.

literature

  • Carl Dietmar: The Chronicle of Cologne. Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991, ISBN 3-611-00193-7 .
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991.
  • Robert Steimel: Cologne heads. Cologne 1958.
  • Max Wallraf: From a life in the Rhineland. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg and Berlin 1926.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Adenauer: Wallraf, Max. In: Soénius, Ulrich S. and Wilhelm, Jürgen (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen Lexikon . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2008, p. 562
  2. ↑ Max Wallraf: From a life in the Rhineland. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg and Berlin 1926, p. 29
  3. ↑ Pulheimer Totenzettelsammlung: Totenzettel for Max Wallraf on www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de, seen on July 27, 2016
  4. ↑ Brief information on NSDAP membership
  5. ^ Oberstdorf, Allgäu: Via Wallrafweg to Gaisalpe
personal data
SURNAME Wallraf, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallraf, Ludwig Theodor Ferdinand Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1941
Place of death Oberstdorf