Valentin Kielinger

Valentin Anton Kielinger (born February 14, 1901 in Löbau ; † September 19, 1969 in West Berlin ) was a German CDU politician.

Life

Kielinger attended high school in Gdansk and later studied law at the universities in Königsberg , Munich and Leipzig . He then worked as a judge in Gdansk, but was taken into “ protective custody ” in 1936 and retired in 1937. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and deployed in the army administration, most recently in Prague.

After the war he went to Berlin, where he worked as a judge at the Charlottenburg district court from 1946 and quickly found his way to the CDU . On April 3, 1947, Mayor Otto Ostrowski ( SPD ) appointed him to the city councilor for justice and head of the legal department of the magistrate.

He also remained in this office under Ostrowski's successors Reuter (SPD), Schreiber (CDU), Suhr (SPD) and Brandt (SPD), and since the new Berlin state constitution came into force, he has carried the title of Senator introduced in February 1951 .

It was only after the CDU was defeated in the elections in February 1963 that Kielinger resigned from the office of Justice Senator.

Kieninger was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Baltia (Danzig) Aachen and KAV Suevia Berlin .

A street in Berlin-Britz was named after him.

His nephew is the journalist Thomas Kielinger . Valentin Kielinger found his final resting place in the cemetery of the St. Matthias Congregation (Berlin-Tempelhof) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article by Thomas Kielinger : The Justice Senator and his street in Neukölln , Die Welt from January 18, 2008