Ulrich von Witten

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Ulrich Julius Egon von Witten (born September 25, 1926 in Königsberg i. Pr .; † November 4, 2015 in Celle ) was a German administrative lawyer and municipal official. Most recently he was senior city director in Celle.

Life

Ulrich von Witten was the son of the government councilor Egon von Witten. He attended schools in Lötzen , Marienwerder and Memel . A naval helper since 1943 , he was able to take the secondary school diploma in Heydekrug in mid-1944 . Because of a serious illness, he was postponed from military service. In the winter semester of 1944/45 he enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg for law. He was considering studying at Masovia or Littuania Corps as soon as possible. However, he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) and, after completing his basic training, deployed to the Samland Army Coast Battery. Following the 250-year tradition of his family as a soldier, he signed up for a career as a reserve officer . At the end of October 1944 he was posted to a ROB training course in Mohrungen . In January 1945 he joined the 28th Jäger Division , which fought in the Battle of Heiligenbeil . On March 15, 1945, a shrapnel destroyed his glottis and two toes. He was rescued and taken to an auxiliary hospital. Apparently dead, he was put in a body bag. Awakened by shells from Soviet tanks, he freed himself from the body bag. After a veterinarian had partially amputated the wounded foot, v. Witten as one of the few survivors of the Kessel Battle after Copenhagen. There and in Itzehoe he was treated in a hospital. Then he came to Hanover with the only relatives in West Germany.

In 1946 he made up his Abitur in a special course and studied law at the Georg August University . In 1948 he became active in the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . With another Hanoverian , he reconstituted the Corps Nassovia Würzburg in 1951 . As an inactive he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After taking the legal traineeship in 1951, he became a member of the Corps Pomerania-Silesia in the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention in 1956 . His father had already belonged to the corps now based in Bayreuth. Assessor since 1956 , he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . Already in 1956 he joined the Lower Saxony financial administration, most recently as senior government councilor in charge of tax investigations in Oldenburg (Oldb) . Witten was hired in 1966 as the city treasurer of the city of Celle as a temporary civil servant. A little later he was given the general representation of the City Director. On September 1, 1977 he was appointed senior city director himself. In 1989 he was retired. Urban development, economic development and city marketing were particularly close to his heart. During his tenure, the Westercelle industrial estate and the Klein Hehlen West residential area were developed . Retired in 1989, he worked as a consultant in the Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin during the course of German reunification in 1991/1992 .

Ulrich von Witten was involved in various civic and voluntary activities. From 1977 to 1989 he was landscape councilor for the landscape of the former Principality of Lüneburg . In the Bundeswehr he became a colonel in the reserve. He was mob- ordered as deputy artillery commander of the 1st Corps . He dealt with the history of his three corps , for example as an employee of Franz Stadtmüller . He published several writings about his main place of activity, Celle.

He was married to Selke von Wedemeyer since 1961 . The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son with six grandchildren.

Fonts

  • The “principle of social and constitutional law” and basic rights: on January 18, 1954 / presented by Ulrich v. Witten , [University of Administrative Sciences], Speyer 1954.
  • Celle, portrait of a city and a district , Meissner, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-87527-119-5 .

Awards

literature

  • Wilhelm Joppich (ed.): Blaubuch des Corps Hannovera , Vol. 2: 1900–2002 , Göttingen 2002, No. 1159
  • Obituary in the Cellesche Zeitung on November 14, 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joachim-Friedrich v. Witten: Dr. iur. Ulrich von Witten - Hannoverae Göttingen (xx, xxx), Nassoviae Würzburg, Pomerania-Silesiae . Corps Magazin, Volume 118, Issue 1/2016, pp. 34–35
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42/1087.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 142/773.
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Captivity of War and War Crimes .
  5. ^ History of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen 1809-1959 . Goettingen 1963.
personal data
SURNAME Witten, Ulrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Witten, Ulrich Julius Egon von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, senior city director
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2015
Place of death Celle