Max Wartemann

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Max Wartemann (born April 6, 1905 in (today's) Wuppertal ; † June 30, 1993 in Switzerland ) was a Schleswig-Holstein politician and mayor of Lübeck .

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After leaving school, Wartemann began studying agriculture in Halle , after dropping it, he studied law in Hamburg and Kiel from 1926 . During his studies he became a member of the Cheruskia Hamburg armed forces , the later Corps Irminsul , to which he belonged until his death.

After completing his studies, Wartemann worked from 1934 to 1939 as an in-house officer at the Landesbrandkasse in Kiel. During the Second World War 1939–1945 he did his service in the German Navy (most recently Kapitänleutnant ).

From December 1946 to September 1959 he worked at the Ministry of Finance of Schleswig-Holstein . From 1948 he was head of the office and most recently as a civil servant state secretary.

In 1959, he was temporarily retired, as Wartemann was elected mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck on the proposal and with the votes of the CDU after Walther Böttcher was voted out. The other bourgeois parties supported the CDU proposal. The SPD, on the other hand, voted against Wartemann and always referred to him as "Kiel's governor". The result of the vote in the Lübeck citizenship was 26 to 19 votes. Wartemann remained independent mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck until 1970. During this time he held several additional offices. Wartemann was a member of the supervisory board a. a. of the Howaldtswerke and the Landeszentralbank Schleswig-Holstein as well as honorary chairman of the German Red Cross in Lübeck. He was a member of the supervisory board of the Handelsbank in Lübeck from 1960 to 1971, that of the Schiffshypothekenbank zu Lübeck from 1949 to 1969.

The Catholic “Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” commented on the election of the non-denominational Wartemann as mayor: The liberalization of the CDU / CSU has made rapid progress.

Before the Wall was built, there was a brief "affair" about Mayor Wartemann. He was accused of attempting to give East German officials a bouquet of flowers and Lübeck marzipan as a gift when the " zone crossing point " Lübeck-Schlutup was opened by the GDR authorities . The Federal Ministry of the Interior examined whether disciplinary measures could be initiated against the mayor due to his behavior. However, the Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein, as the responsible supervisory authority, came to the judgment that Wartemann had only brought the presents with him in the event that after the opening of the crossing point, "Germans - who were not allowed to be officials - [...] to greet". Therefore, “there can be no question of the mayor [...] even attempting to get in touch with the border authorities on the other side of the border, let alone that Words would have been exchanged ”. The investigation then petered out.

Wartemann acquired a good reputation during his tenure as mayor and was even able to reduce some of the social democrats' resentments against him. It was through him that the Skandinavienkai in Lübeck-Travemünde was christened in 1959 . Later it was said about Wartemann in Lübeck that he collected ferry lines like other postage stamps.

After retiring, Wartemann and his wife, with whom he had been married since 1935, moved to Kreuzlingen in Switzerland, their home.

Honors

For his services to the city of Lübeck, the state of Schleswig-Holstein and the merger of the Scandinavian countries, Wartemann received an honorary doctorate, the Great Federal Cross of Merit (1971), the Commander's Cross of the Gustav Wasa Order (Sweden), the Commander's Cross of the White Rose ( Finland), the Commander's Cross of the Dannebrog Order (Denmark) and the German Red Cross . In addition, a street in Lübeck was named after him. His portrait hangs in the mayor 's gallery in Lübeck's town hall .

literature

  • 60 years of Lübeck citizenship ed. from the city of Lübeck
  • Notes from Ref. I C5 of the Federal Ministry of the Interior from March 18, 1960, regarding the conduct of Mayor Wartemann. BArch Koblenz, B 106, No. 42036. Letter from the Minister of the Interior of the State of Schleswig-Holstein to the representative of the State of Schleswig-Holstein at the federal government of March 18, 1960. ibid.
  • Issue of "Zeit" from August 21, 1959 and other newspaper articles from various regional newspapers to be found in the relevant archives
  • Hartmut Elers & Andreas Walther: 125 years Corps Irminsul , Hamburg 2005
  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918–2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the Publications on the History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, pp. 246–248

Web links

Commons : Max Wartemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From a human point of view - Hamburger Abendblatt from August 10, 1959 ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Willi Jacob (ed.): Address directory of the German armed forces for 1928/29. Reutlingen, 1928, p. 78.
  3. ^ Gerhard Schneider: Lübeck's banking policy through the ages (1898-1978) , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1979, p. 222
personal data
SURNAME Wartemann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Schleswig-Holstein politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1993
Place of death Switzerland