Richard Duckwitz

Richard Duckwitz (* 28. June 1886 in Bremen , † thirtieth November 1972 in Bremen) was a Nazi Party - DP and GDP - politician and mayor of Bremen .

biography

Duckwitz family grave in the Osterholz cemetery

Beginnings

Duckwitz was born as the son of a businessman and the grandson of the former Bremen mayor Arnold Duckwitz . After graduating from high school, he studied law in Heidelberg , Munich and Marburg . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg . At the end of the course there was a doctorate. In the first year of World War I , he did military service for a short time. Five years later he was appointed Syndicus of the Bremen Senate in the administration for ports, trade and shipping.

Political life

After a short one-year membership in the German Democratic Party from 1919 to 1920, he became State Councilor in Bremen on October 1, 1927, the administration for ports, shipping and transport. In October 1931 he became President of the Financial Administration. A few months after the National Socialists came to power , he joined the NSDAP in May 1933. On April 1, 1943, he was appointed the new Senator for Finance. In the same year he received the rank of Sturmführer (honorary) in the Reiter SA , to which he also belonged.

The following year, on July 1, he became provisional mayor of the city of Bremen . In the last months of the war he campaigned - unsuccessfully - for Bremen to be handed over to the Allies without a fight . He was able to prevent the blasting of port facilities planned in 1945. His term of office ended with the capture of the city on April 27, 1945. In 1948 he was denazified as a fellow traveler and, on the initiative of the Senator for Political Liberation Alexander Lifschütz (SPD) , classified as exonerated in August 1948 .

From 1951 he was a mandate holder in the Bremen citizenship and deputy state chairman of the party for the German party. In 1961 the DP merged with the GB / BHE to form the All-German Party . 1962 Duckwitz resigned from this party and sat in on the CDU parliamentary group.

The grave of the Duckwitz family is in the Osterholz cemetery .

Publications

Rise and prosperity of a Hanseatic city: Bremen's achievement in the world. Mayor Barkhausen and his time. Schünemann , Bremen 1951.
Bremen at the time of democracy and dictatorship: Experienced problems and solutions. Schünemann, Bremen 1950.

swell

Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Bremische Bürgerschaft (Hrsg.), Karl-Ludwig Sommer: The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft. Project study and scientific colloquium (= small writings of the Bremen State Archives. Issue 50). State Archive Bremen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-925729-72-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 766.
^ Bremische Bürgerschaft (Ed.): The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft . P. 66: “His representations (on this) were given by prominent witnesses, among others. a. Theodor Spitta and Wilhelm Kaisen , essentially confirmed. "

personal data
SURNAME	Duckwitz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politicians (DDP, NSDAP, DP, GDP), Member of the Bundestag and Mayor of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1972
Place of death	Bremen

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 766.

[2] Bremische Bürgerschaft (Ed.): The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft . P. 66: “His representations (on this) were given by prominent witnesses, among others. a. Theodor Spitta and Wilhelm Kaisen , essentially confirmed. "