Paul Waeldin

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Paul Waeldin (born June 12, 1888 in Lahr / Black Forest ; † November 15, 1969 there ) was a German lawyer , entrepreneur and politician ( DDP , DStP, DemP , FDP ).

Life

Paul Waeldin came from an old tanner family in Lahr and was born on June 12, 1888 as the son of the leather manufacturer Karl August Waeldin and Luise Wilhelmine, née. Flights, daughter of the mayor of Lahr, Wilhelm Flights, was born. He had three siblings.

Waeldin attended elementary school from 1894 to 1897 and the grammar school in Lahr from 1897 to 1906, where he graduated from high school. After attending school he served in 1906/07 as a one-year volunteer in the 4th Baden Field Artillery Regiment No. 66 in Lahr. He then studied law and political science at the universities of Freiburg , where he worked in the Corps Suevia Freiburg entered, and in Heidelberg , where he in 1911 to Dr. jur. doctorate (dissertation: criminal provisions of the Stock Exchange Act of May 8, 1908 ). During his studies and afterwards he devoted himself to a manual training in his father's factory, which he joined after his father's death in 1912 as an authorized signatory and later as a partner. Most recently he was the sole personally liable partner of Waeldin-Huber KG in Lahr. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier , most recently as a first lieutenant. He was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class for his services .

Waeldin described himself as being liberal-democratic from his parents. After his return from the war, he first became a member of the Lahr Citizens' Committee and later its chairman. He was a city ​​councilor and district councilor , joined the DDP Baden (DStP since 1930) and was elected to the state parliament of the Republic of Baden in 1929 , to which he belonged until 1933. During the time of the Weimar Republic he maintained friendly contacts with Reich Minister Hermann Dietrich and the Baden regional chairman of the DDP / DStP Richard Freudenberg .

During the time of National Socialism , Waeldin resigned all party and honorary positions and devoted himself exclusively to his family and his company.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Waeldin was appointed Lord Mayor of the city of Lahr on April 20, 1945 by the French military government . He held this position on a voluntary basis until 1952. In January 1946 he participated in the re-establishment of the Democratic Party (DemP) in southern Baden and was elected its chairman. He then asked the military government for approval of the party, which was approved in May 1946. In April 1948 the DemP was renamed FDP Südbaden. In 1951/52 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee as representative of the state .

Waeldin was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Baden from November 1946 to May 1947 . From December 3, 1946 to June 26, 1947, he served as State Secretary of Finance in the provisional government (State Secretariat) of the State of Baden, headed by President Leo Wohleb . In the state election on May 18, 1947 , he was elected as a member of the Baden state parliament, to which he belonged until its dissolution in 1952. In parliament he was chairman of the liberal faction. In addition, he was President of the Baden City Association from 1951. Waeldin was one of the supporters of the formation of the Southwest State and was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Baden-Württemberg from 1952 until his resignation on January 10, 1953 .

From 1952 until his retirement in 1957, Waeldin acted as district president of the administrative district of South Baden . In this function he took part in Colmar's first German-French mayors' conference in 1956 at the invitation of its mayor Joseph Rey .

Paul Waeldin had been married to Edith Altfelix, daughter of Lahr mayor Gustav Altfelix , who was in office from 1898 to 1928, since 1917 .

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literature

  • Emil Baader: Dr. Paul Waeldin - District President of South Baden. In: Badische Heimat. 32nd year 1952, issue 2/3.
  • Renate Liessem-Breinlinger: Waeldin, Paul. In: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien . New series, Volume 1, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3-17-007118-6 , p. 260 f. ( E-text )
  • Waeldin, Paul, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Waas bis Wynands] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1309 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 393 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

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SURNAME Waeldin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, entrepreneur and politician (DDP, DStP, DemP, FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 1969
Place of death Lahr / Black Forest