Otto Uhlitz

Otto Uhlitz (born January 5, 1923 in Spreeau , † June 19, 1987 in Berlin ) was a Berlin administrative lawyer, SPD politician and Senate Director in the Senate Department for Justice.

Life

family

Uhlitz was the son of a Brandenburg farmer and local politician. His son Manfred Uhlitz is a Berlin state historian.

Uhlitz attended the state high school in Fürstenwalde from 1937 to 1940 and then completed an administrative apprenticeship at the district office of the Niederbarnim district .

job

From February 1, 1941, he worked as a government inspector candidate at the regional council in Potsdam. He was a member of the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1945 and was seriously injured in World War II. In 1944 he passed the matriculation examination at the German High School in Lodz . From 1944 to 1949 he studied law in Berlin and received his doctorate in Cologne in 1953.

In 1946 Uhlitz joined the SPD . In 1953 he became a trainee lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Berlin and since 1954 a court assessor at the Regional Court. In May 1954 Uhlitz was transferred to the House of Representatives and had been legal counsel there since 1956. 1958 and 1959 he worked as acting director of the House of Representatives. At the same time he was an advisor to the working group of district councilors.

In May 1959, at the request of the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt , Uhlitz was transferred to the Senate Chancellery, which he organized as legal advisor and head of the general department. In the defense of the defamation lawsuit against Brandt, he was significantly involved in legal matters. Due to a serious illness, he carried out his official duties for two years from the hospital in the 1960s, before returning to office with special tasks.

One of his writings became the basis for the reorganization of the district self-government. From 1968 to 1975 he was Senate Director in the Senate Department for Justice. Not least because of his state of health, he was put into temporary retirement.

Grave of Otto Uhlitz in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Uhlitz spent the last decade of his life researching local family, art and legal history. He underpinned this with a few art history semesters at the Free University of Berlin .

Otto Uhlitz died after years of illness in June 1987 at the age of 64 in Berlin. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend . The grave monument in the form of a stump of a column is the work of the sculptor Günter Anlauf and bears the motto of the Association for the History of Berlin , in which the deceased was involved: "What you researched, you experienced."

Honors

• 1987: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• Grave monument of the Berlin sculptor Günter Anlauf

Works

• The legal status of the Berlin districts (= dissertation), Cologne 1953.
• Constitution of Berlin of September 1, 1950 (with a historical description of Berlin's constitutional law), Berlin 1961.
• Deconcentration and decentralization - or dependent and independent decentralization? , in: H. Conrad, H. Jahrreiß u. a. (Ed.): Festschrift Hans Peters , Salzwedel u. a. 1967, p. 248ff.
• Reform of the Berlin district constitution. At the same time a contribution to municipal constitutional law (= studies on public law and administrative theory, Volume 8), Berlin and Frankfurt a. Main 1968.
• Brief constitutional history of Berlin. The historical foundations of Berlin's constitutional law , in: Berliner Forum, Heft 6/69, Berlin 1969.
• The Berlin coin frieze. History and fate of an important work of classical sculpture , in: Yearbook “The Bear of Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 27th year, Berlin 1978.
• The Berlin coin frieze and the new building of the Reichsmünze on Molkenmarkt (addendum to vol. 27/1978) , in: Yearbook “Der Bär von Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 28th year, Berlin 1979.
• On the history of Berlin district constitutional law. A review with special consideration of Charlottenburg , in: Wolfgang Ribbe (Ed.): From the Residenz to the City. 275 Years of Charlottenburg , Berlin 1980, pp. 317-426.
• On the history of the Neptune Fountain in Berlin. On the 150th birthday of its creator Reinhold Begas , in: Yearbook “The Bear of Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin, 30th year, Berlin 1981.
• Assumptions about the deputations in Berlin's constitutional history , in: Yearbook “Der Bär von Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin, 31st year, Berlin 1982.
• The founding of Friedrichshagen. The historical and economic prerequisites for the founding of Friedrichshagen as a spinner village , in: Yearbook “Der Bär von Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin, 32nd year, Berlin 19832.
• The Berlin master builder Heinrich Gentz ​​and the mint on the Werderscher Markt , in: Yearbook “The Bear of Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin, 34th year, Berlin 1985.
• Friedrich the Great, Watteau, Wilhelm von Bode and the Hohenzollern comparison , in: Yearbook "The Bear of Berlin", ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin, 35th year, Berlin 1986.
• Who do the remains of Frederick the Great belong to ? , in: Yearbook “The Bear of Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin, 37th year, Berlin 1988, pp. 73–99.

literature

• Gerhard Kutzsch : Otto Uhlitz (with portrait and bibliography), in: Yearbook "The Bear of Berlin", ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin, 37th year, Berlin 1988, pp. 71–72.
• Estate in the Berlin State Archives, E Rep. 200-56 [2]

Web links

• Uhlitz on the 1969 judge election, Spiegel Online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (...) Dr. Manfred Uhlitz, art historian and son of our long-time member Dr. Otto Uhlitz (...) [1]
2. ↑ The Bear of Berlin. Yearbook of the Association for the History of Berlin . 37th episode, 1988. p. 72.