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Paul Stolze (born May 1, 1874 in Dienstedt , † November 7, 1958 in Weimar ) was a German lawyer , ministerial official , finance minister and politician ( DVP ).

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Stolze was born the son of a pastor. After graduating from high school in 1895, he studied law in Berlin, Leipzig, Munich and Jena until 1898. After completing his doctorate at the University of Jena , interrupted his military service as a one-year volunteer , from July 1898 to June 1903 the legal preparatory service in Roda , Eisenberg and Altenburg followed with the second state legal examination in Jena.

Stolze first worked for three months as an assessor at the local court in Schmölln , until the end of 1905 as an assistant judge at two local courts, then as an unskilled worker at the local court in Ronneburg and finally from October 1907 as a government assessor at the Roda district office . In early 1909 he was transferred to the ducal ministry in Altenburg, where he first worked as an unskilled worker and from October 1911 as a lecturer . From May 1918, Stolze took part in the First World War as an officer . In October 1920 he was transferred to the Thuringian Ministry of Finance in Weimar, where he rose from government councilor to ministerial councilor within three and a half years .

On February 24, 1924, Stolze became State Minister for Finance in the Thuringian state government under the direction of Richard Leutheußer . Due to a personnel question, he resigned after two months on April 25, 1924 and worked as a ministerial director in the Ministry of Finance. From 1925 to 1930 he was tax syndicus at the Central Thuringian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Weimar and from March 1930 to August 1933 again as ministerial director in the Ministry of Finance. He had secondary employment as state commissioner and chairman of the board of directors of the Thüringische Staatsbank and chairman of the board of directors of the Thüringische Landeshypothekenbank.

Stolze was a member of the German People's Party between 1928 and 1931, and on May 1, 1933 he joined the NSDAP . On September 1, 1933, he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economics. He held this office until his retirement on May 1, 1939. From April 20, 1938 to April 12, 1945, Stolze held the title of "Council of State" of the Thuringian state government.

Between July and August 1945, Stolze was imprisoned in Weimar at the instigation of the Thuringian District President Hermann Brill . After his release he lived as a pensioner in Weimar.

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 631.