Ulrich von Fresenius

Ulrich Fresenius , from 1910 by Fresenius (born September 1, 1888 in Erfurt ; † November 12, 1962 in Memmelsdorf-Lichteneiche , Bamberg district ) was mayor of Wernigerode .

Life

Fresenius was the son of the royal Prussian Colonel Paul Fresenius and Elsbeth von Wolffersdorf. He attended high schools in Hildesheim , Graudenz , Konitz and Sondershausen . From 1906 he studied law at the Université de Grenoble , then at the Universities of Lausanne , Berlin , Munich and Halle . In 1910 he completed his studies in Naumburg with the trainee exam, where he also worked as a trainee lawyer. In 1914, after completing his legal clerkship, he passed the assessor exam . He was then called up for military service at the beginning of World War I , from which he was released as a first lieutenant at the end of the war . In 1920 he was hired as a councilor in the Imperial Finance Administration in Magdeburg .

Fresenius married Ilse Vogel on June 4, 1921 in Magdeburg.

In 1925 he became a director of the Wernigerode tax office. From January 10, 1933 to April 20, 1945, Fresenius, who joined the NSDAP in May 1933 , succeeded Ludwig Gepel as mayor of Wernigerode. Before the US Army occupied Wernigerode without a fight on April 11, 1945, he advocated the city commandant Colonel Gustav Petri not to defend the city militarily. Before the end of the Second World War , Fresenius was removed from office by the American city commandant in Wernigerode. From September 1945 to October 1948 he was interned in complete isolation in the special camp No. 8 operated by the NKVD in Torgau , without charge or determination of an individual charge of guilt . In addition, he was temporarily interned in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg and in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald . Fresenius wrote a detailed report about his experiences during this time, which was published in 1992 in a book by Rolf Oppermann under the title “Encounters of the Mayor of Wernigerode at the end of the war in communist prisons and concentration camps” .

Fresenius later worked for social security in the GDR . In 1953, at the age of 65, he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Awards

Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
Cross of Honor of Schwarzburg with swords.

Publications

Meetings of the mayor of Wernigerode at the end of the war in communist prisons and concentration camps - 1945 to 1950 , Association of Victims of Stalinism (ed.), ASDI-Verlag Rolf Oppermann, Hanover 1991.
Like an animal in a cage. Memories of the former Mayor of Wernigerode on five years in Stalinist camps between Torgau and Buchenwald , o. 0. 1996.
From the history of the hunter regiment on horseback , undated

Web links

Literature by and about Ulrich von Fresenius in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Father Paul Fresenius was in recognition of his service as adjutant of Prince Karl Günther to black-Sondershausen on 11 January 1910 in Sondershausen in the black burg hereditary peerage charged and received on 19 April 1910 in Homburg , the Prussian approved to manage of the Schwarzburg nobility. See Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, page 366, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975.
↑ Brigitte Oleschinski and Bert Pampel: "Enemy elements are to be kept in custody": the Soviet special camps No. 8 and No. 10 in Torgau 1945 - 1948 . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997, p. 140.
↑ Werner Weber (2003): Report on the last days of the war in the Mühlental of Wernigerode , on collective memory. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
^ Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism , Volume 2, page 982, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002 ( digitized ).
↑ Arthur Ehrhardt (Ed.): Nation Europa , Volume 58, Page 72, Nation Europa Verlag, 2008 ( excerpt ).
↑ Brigitte Oleschinski, Bert Pampel: "Enemy elements are to be kept in custody". The Soviet special camps No. 8 and No. 10 in Torgau 1945-1948 , Volume 3 of the series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny, Verlag G. Kiepenheuer, 1997.

personal data
SURNAME	Fresenius, Ulrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fresenius, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of Wernigerode
DATE OF BIRTH	September 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1962
Place of death	Memmelsdorf

[1] Father Paul Fresenius was in recognition of his service as adjutant of Prince Karl Günther to black-Sondershausen on 11 January 1910 in Sondershausen in the black burg hereditary peerage charged and received on 19 April 1910 in Homburg , the Prussian approved to manage of the Schwarzburg nobility. See Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, page 366, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975.

[2] Brigitte Oleschinski and Bert Pampel: "Enemy elements are to be kept in custody": the Soviet special camps No. 8 and No. 10 in Torgau 1945 - 1948 . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997, p. 140.

[3] Werner Weber (2003): Report on the last days of the war in the Mühlental of Wernigerode , on collective memory. Retrieved May 31, 2014.

[4] Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism , Volume 2, page 982, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002 ( digitized ).

[5] Arthur Ehrhardt (Ed.): Nation Europa , Volume 58, Page 72, Nation Europa Verlag, 2008 ( excerpt ).

[6] Brigitte Oleschinski, Bert Pampel: "Enemy elements are to be kept in custody". The Soviet special camps No. 8 and No. 10 in Torgau 1945-1948 , Volume 3 of the series of publications by the Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny, Verlag G. Kiepenheuer, 1997.