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 |