Otto Hoevermann

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Otto Hoevermann (born November 11, 1888 in Bonn ; † December 13, 1953 ) was a German administrative lawyer and in the post-war period the penultimate senior president in the province of Schleswig-Holstein . It was known that he - like other high officials - was a member of the NSDAP ; the fact that he was confirmed in his post by the British military government in August 1945 was considered a one-off event in the British zone of occupation .

Life

As a Rhinelander and a doctorate in administrative law, Hoevermann was district administrator of the Saarland remainder of St. Wendel-Baumholder in the Weimar Republic from 1920 . As DVP -member he was in 1933 by the Nazis removed from office and for six months in -waiting added. When the general ban on membership of the NSDAP was relaxed, he received the NSDAP party book . As a municipal department head of government in Koblenz Senior Government become, he was in September 1939, Prefect of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel appointed. As a government director, he headed the general department.

Chief President

On May 6, 1945 two days before the unconditional surrender of the armed forces , who dismissed in Flensburg - Mürwik incumbent Chancellor Karl Doenitz the Oberpräsident Hinrich Lohse from office. The business of Schleswig-Holstein's highest administrative officer was temporarily taken over by Waldemar Vöge , who had been district administrator in the Zauch-Belzig district from 1935 to 1939 . On May 14, 1945, the British Military Governor Gail Patrick Henderson appointed Hoevermann as acting chief president. As he explained in an interview with the Kieler Kurier on August 22, 1945, he wanted to rebuild the administration, revive the economy, solve the refugee problem, fight the impending unemployment and reopen the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel as soon as possible. Initially in vain, he warned of the consequences of the hostile rejection of the expellees from East Prussia and Pomerania by the Schleswig-Holsteiners . The Danish side protested against the fact that he had deployed East Prussian administrative officials in the Flensburg-Land district , in the Südtondern district and in Kappeln . In Kiel , Lübeck , Flensburg and Schleswig , criticism of the occupation of the senior presidency with Hoevermann was loud. In July 1945, middle-class circles around Ernst Kintzinger and Willi Koch urged Hoevermann to be replaced before the pending confirmation; they proposed the Lord Mayor of Kiel, Max Emcke . The Kiel trade union committee, formed by communists and social democrats , initially advocated Albert Billian . "After agreements about the occupation of further managerial administrative functions by anti-fascists had been agreed in return," he also spoke out in favor of Emcke.

affair

When the Danish and southern Schleswig press sparked a storm of protest against Hoevermann's appointment, the Political Intelligence Division of the British Foreign Office took notice. Despite his “very good cooperation” with the military government, she assessed him as “anything but politically reliable”. Lieutenant Colonel M. G. Rees said that “not everyone can assume a position of responsibility just because they are non-Nazi and a competent administrator. Rather, it is necessary to appoint people who have a positive attitude towards the intentions and aims of the British military government, as set out in the Potsdam decisions ” ; but at the Political Intelligence Division neither the head of CE Steel nor his deputy ITM Pink wanted to join such “ideological” discrediting. Citing orders from the Allied Control Commission and without giving any reason, the Military Governor Henderson (now Brigadier General ) dismissed Hoevermann on November 15, 1945.

After he had become a curator at Kiel University in September , he was deposed on November 16, 1945. Because the Social Democrats could not name their own candidate, the Christian Democrat Theodor Steltzer Hoevermann's successor as the last Upper President of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein and the first Prime Minister of the State of Schleswig-Holstein .

Calm end

In 1946, the Steltzer I cabinet and the military government mutually approved Hoevermann's pension . In 1951 he returned to the state service and headed the state supply office in Neumünster for two years . He died in office at the age of 65.

family

Otto Hoevermann was the second of two children of the quaestor of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Otto Friedrich Hoevermann (1852-1925), and his wife Ferdinande, née Menzen (1860-1939). Otto Hoevermann founded his own family in 1922. His marriage to Elisabeth Zix (1896–1939) had three children.

Memberships

Works

  • 10 years of the border and remaining district of St. Wendel-Baumholder , manuscript. Baumholder [district committee], 1930
  • The ancestors , from family papers , self-published, Kiel 1943
  • East Asia trip (travel report 1911/12). Husum 1990

literature

  • Kurt Juergensen: Hoevermann, Otto , in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Vol. 2, pp. 176-180
  • Holger Martens : Hoevermann's appointment was a mistake. The British military government corrects the occupation of the senior presidency , in: Democratic History - Yearbook of the Advisory Council for History in the Society for Politics and Education Schleswig-Holstein e. V., Vol. 12 (1999), pp. 191–206, online version (2008) (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  • Jessica von Seggern: Old and New Democrats in Schleswig-Holstein. Democratization and formation of a new political elite at district and state level 1945 to 1950 . HMRG supplements 61, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08801-6 , online version

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kieler Kurier , November 17, 1945.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Holger Martens : Hoevermann's appointment was a mistake. The British military government corrects the occupation of the senior presidency , in: Democratic History - Yearbook of the Advisory Council for History in the Society for Politics and Education Schleswig-Holstein e. V., Vol. 12 (1999), pp. 191–206, online version (2008) (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  3. ↑ a b c d Members of the Schleswig-Holstein State Governments (GoogleBooks)
  4. ↑ Refugees in Schleswig-Holstein ( Memento from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Otto Hoevermann: The ancestors . Self-published, Kiel 1943.
personal data
SURNAME Hoevermann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, district administrator and senior president
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1953