Peter Matthiessen (politician)

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Peter Matthiessen (born January 17, 1907 in Kiel ; † May 20, 1995 in Itzehoe ) was a German administrative lawyer and member of parliament in Schleswig-Holstein.

Life

Matthiessen attended the Realschule and the Reform-Realgymnasium . After graduating from high school, he began to study law and political science at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1927 he became active in the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg zu Marburg . In 1928 he moved to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . There he was also active in the Corps Franconia Jena . As an inactive he finished his studies at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He was a government clerk in the regional council Schleswig , Regierungsassessor and Government . In 1932 Matthiessen joined the NSDAP , and from 1939 worked in civil administration, later also in the occupied eastern territories. Here he was subordinate to the Reich Commissioner Hinrich Lohse in the Reich Commissioner Ostland in Riga . In 1943 (officially until May 1945, represented by Hans Kolbe and Walter Mentzel ) he was district administrator of the Eckernförde district , until 1945 UK, he moved to the Eastern Front as a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht. At the end of the war he and his Wehrmacht Association were arrested by the Americans and extradited to the Soviet Union as a " reconstruction worker ". This was followed by 9 years of imprisonment in a POW camp near Stalingrad. Like many Russian prisoners of war, Matthiessen was sentenced to many years of forced labor in sham trials by the Stalinist judiciary. In 1954, Matthiessen returned to Germany via the Friedland reception camp.

From 1955 to 1972 Peter Matthiessen was district administrator in the Steinburg district . Matthiessen became a member of the CDU in 1957 . He was chairman of the district association of the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany and the European Union , the German Red Cross , the adult education center, the home association, the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald , the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge and the German Olympic Society in Itzehoe as well as a member of the supervisory board of Schleswig-Holstein Power supply company. From 1967 to 1975 he was a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein .

Matthiessen was married and had a daughter.

literature

  • Wulf Pingel: From Kiel to Riga. Schleswig-Holsteiner in the German civil administration of the Reichskommissariat Ostland. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History Volume 122 (1997). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1997, ISBN 3-529-02322-1 , pp. 439-466, 453
  • Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Eckernförde - a walk through the city's history . Publisher: Manfred Goos, Horn-Bad Meinberg, 2nd edition 2002, pp. 421 ff., 426 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Gnauck: The Federal Republic , Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1956, p. 1052
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 100 , 337; 26 , 720
  3. ↑ March 15, 1943 to December 31, 1943
  4. ↑ January 1, 1944 to January 4, 1945
  5. ↑ January 5, 1945 to May 10, 1945
personal data
SURNAME Matthiessen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1995
Place of death Itzehoe