Paul Waltz

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Paul Walzer (born June 19, 1879 in Grodziczno , West Prussia province ; † May 17, 1936 ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer and district administrator in the Oletzko district (1919–1921) and in the Danziger Niederung district (1921–1934).

Life

In the spring of 1934, Walzer, who belonged to the German Christian faith movement , was appointed President of the Evangelical Consistory of the Mark Brandenburg in Berlin and remained in office until his death. With his appointment as Consistorial President , Walzer was also appointed as an authorized representative in the exercise of the highest management of the administration of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union (APU) and chairman of its legal committee and, at short notice (February to April 1934), with the position of legally qualified member of the German Spiritual Ministry Evangelical Church (Reichskirche) entrusted.

In October 1934 Walzer traveled to Munich and briefly usurped, appointed by August Jäger , the so-called legal administrator of the Reichskirche, as administrative commissioner , management tasks in the regional church office in Munich . The imperial church failed due to resistance from regional bishop Hans Meiser and the church people and gave up its attempt to bring the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Bavaria on the right of the Rhine into line after two weeks.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c “Walzer, Paul” (entry; limited preview on Google Book Search ), in: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 , Hannelore Braun and Gertraud Grünzinger, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, p. 268. ISBN 3 -525-55761-2 or ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 .
  2. ↑ Heinz Boberach , Carsten Nicolaisen , Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs, Offices, Associations, Persons , Volume 1: 'Supraregional Institutions' (= work on contemporary church history / Series A; Vol. 18). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 77. ISBN 978-3-525-55784-6 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Huber: Friedrich von Praun, co-worker with Regional Bishop Meiser, opponent and victim of National Socialism. Notes and texts on his biography. In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte , Volume 81 (2012, published 2013), pp. 227–284 (including attachments), here pp. 261 and 263.
  4. ↑ See Helmut Baier : The German Christians of Bavaria in the context of the Bavarian church struggle (= individual works from the church history of Bavaria; vol. 46). Association for Bavarian Church History, Nuremberg 1968, pp. 128–131.
  5. ↑ Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 , p. 268.
personal data
SURNAME Waltz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative lawyer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Grodziczno , West Prussia Province
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1936