Otto Heipertz

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Otto Heipertz (born August 22, 1884 in Mettmann ; † January 9, 1954 in Homberg ) was a German politician and lawyer. He was mayor of Neustrelitz from 1920 to 1933 and was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1927 to 1930 .

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Training as a lawyer and first employment

Otto Heipertz was the son of the Sparkasse director Karl Heipertz and his wife Emma, ​​geb. Large . After attending elementary school , seminar practice school and higher private school in his hometown of Mettmann, he graduated from high school in 1904 at the Princely State School Schulpforta near Naumburg. He then did his military service in Arolsen as a one-year volunteer . From 1905 to 1908 he studied law in Berlin, Marburg and Bonn. After he had passed the first state law examination in Cologne in 1909, he worked as a court trainee in Mettmann and Düsseldorf. In 1911 he received his doctorate in Marburg with a paper on the requirements for child adoption in German law. In the meantime, he worked as in-house counsel at the chemical factory in Mettmann, Heipertz passed his second state examination and in 1914 began a brief activity as a court assessor . After doing military service in the First World War, he went to Eisleben as a magistrate's assistant .

Mayor, Member of State Parliament and Parliamentary State Council

In Eisleben, Heipertz became town councilor in May 1917 and mayor and deputy mayor in September 1918, which he remained until December 1919. He then moved to Neustrelitz , where he since 1920 including as registrar and from 1923 as a deputy member of the Regional Administrative Court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz worked. In February 1920 he was elected mayor of Neustrelitz, and in 1925 he was re-elected.

At the beginning of his political career, Heipertz was initially a member of the DBAMP (German civil servants, employees and middle class party). After his election to the fourth state parliament of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in July 1927 he acted as deputy to AGHG, in the fifth parliament the DVP . The President of the State Parliament Fritz Foth (SPD) repeatedly appointed Heipertz as Minister of State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz on February 21, 23 and 29, 1928, who was to work on an equal footing with Kurt von Reibnitz . However, due to motions of no confidence by the DNVP and the refusal to hand over the government business by the ministerial directors Erich Cordua and Harry Ludewig , the two ministers of state did not initially take office. On February 29, their confidence was withdrawn again by parliament, but they were allowed to remain in office as Minister of Commerce until March 8, 1928. On the following day, the DNVP submitted an application for the removal of the management, which the state parliament approved in the case of Heipertz, while Kurt von Reibnitz continued the business alone.

On April 16, 1929 Heipertz was elected by the state parliament to the Parliamentary State Council in the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. This office was created on the basis of a mediation proposal by Kurt Häntzschel , the representative appointed by the Reich government to form the government . The position of the Parliamentary Councilors of State was initially controversial; in the end, they were only granted the status of advisers to the Minister of State in Reibnitz.

Resignation and dismissal

On December 8, 1930, Heipertz resigned his state parliament mandate and the office of Parliamentary State Council. He justified this step with health problems. He continued to hold the mayor's office in Neustrelitz. In December 1931, State Minister Heinrich von Michael appointed him as State Commissioner of Burg Stargard for one year and made him manage the city's Sparkasse.

In June 1933, Reich Governor Friedrich Hildebrandt dismissed Otto Heipertz from his position as Mayor of Neustrelitz. Hildebrandt relied on Section 4 of the BBG . Due to Heipertz's previous political activities, there is no guarantee that he will "always unreservedly stand up for the national state". The month before, Heipertz had refused to sign a petition to the Reich President for the appointment of Hildebrandt as Reich Governor. Heipertz's objection to the dismissal, in which he emphasized that he was not an opponent of the National Socialist movement, was unsuccessful.

Military service, lawyer and judge, death and offspring

From 1934 Heipertz worked as a lawyer and notary in Neustrelitz. During the Second World War he did military service until he was dismissed because of a gall disease. He was head of a motor vehicle procurement commission, captain and war administrator, later chief staff director and directorate . In November 1942 he resumed his work as a lawyer in Neustrelitz. At the end of 1945 he fled the Soviet occupation zone and worked as a supervisory judge at the Homberg District Court (Efze) until 1949 . In 1954 he died in Homberg at the age of 69.

Heipertz was married twice. First from 1911 with Emma Sophie, b. Freudewald (* 1889), with whom he had six children. In 1949 he married Else, b. Neubau (* 1887). His children included the diplomat Otto E. Heipertz and the physician Wolfgang Heipertz .

Fonts

  • The prerequisites for the adoption of a child according to the applicable German civil rights. R. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1911.
  • The constitutional law of the German Reich: textbook for use in administrative schools. Heipertz 'preparation books for the local administration service. Volume 1. Galle, Berlin 1914.
  • The Prussian constitutional document: textbook for use in administrative schools. Heipertz 'preparation books for the local administration service. Volume 2. Galle, Berlin 1914.

literature

  • Heipertz, Otto In: Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. A biographical lexicon. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 , pp. 155–157.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of death is not the gest. not: February 3, 1954, as it is called in the literature.
  2. ↑ a b Heipertz, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 155.
  3. ↑ a b c Heipertz, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 156.
  4. ↑ a b c Heipertz, Otto In: Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871 - 1952. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, p. 157.
  5. ↑ On the 80th birthday of Professor Dr. med. Wolfgang Heipertz In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt 6/2002, p. 367.
personal data
SURNAME Heipertz, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettmann
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1954
Place of death Homberg