Waldemar von Mohl

Waldemar Arthur von Mohl (born September 6, 1885 in Ponarien , East Prussia , † March 1, 1966 in Bad Segeberg ) was a German lawyer and district administrator during the Weimar Republic and National Socialism .

Life

Mohl, son of the lawyer Ottmar von Mohl and grandson of Robert von Mohl , graduated from the Pforta State School . He then studied in Paris , from 1904 to 1906 at New College in Oxford and then until 1908 in Königsberg and Halle . In 1909 he completed his legal clerkship, in 1910 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg . He then began his career in the Prussian government service, initially as a trainee lawyer and from 1914 as a government assessor.

The national conservative von Mohl was a councilor in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior during the Weimar Republic and was proposed on February 3, 1921 by the social democratic minister Carl Severing as the successor to the social democrat Arthur Zabel as district administrator of the Bordesholm district . He was elected by the SPD and the “bourgeois unity list” in the district council and held office until the district was dissolved in 1932. From 1932 to 1945 he was district administrator of the Segeberg district . Waldemar von Mohl had been a member of the NSDAP since 1937, but came under pressure several times from the local SA group leader and district leader Werner Stiehr. The district administrator also protected the Jewish merchant, Jean Labowski, from being separated from his non-Jewish wife and their daughters several times. With the help of Mohls and the local police, Labowski was protected from access by the Gestapo by hiding in the police prison. Waldemar von Mohl survived the war in Bad Segeberg. At the end of April 1945, Reich Finance Minister Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk lived with District Administrator Mohl. On the national road 432 that went from there daily to Eutin and Plon , in order to attend meetings of the remaining national government participate. When Karl Dönitz fled to Flensburg - Mürwik with the last Reich government on May 2, 1945 , von Krosigk also left the district administrator's residence and fled to the Mürwik special area , where he was later arrested by the British and later convicted. But von Mohl was appointed city director by the British in 1945 after the end of the war. After the war, von Mohl was classified in the denazification process of the British occupation in Group V ("Relieved") and rehabilitated with Labowski's help.

In 1953, von Mohl was elected district chairman of the German Red Cross and in 1959 was honored with its gold medal. At the end of the 1960s, a street in Bad Segeberg was named after him. Nevertheless, von Mohl's role in the National Socialist dictatorship never remained undisputed and, in 2013, under political pressure led to an expert report commissioned by the Segeberg district. In the summary it comes to the conclusion that von Mohl “(can) be classified as a typical example of the role of traditional elites in the Third Reich, who became actors of the NS-injustice regime through readiness to adapt and partly hasty self-alignment, even if they belonged to NS -Ideology were internally distant ”.

Waldemar v. Mohl married Agnes von Pfuel (1884–1920) for the first time in 1914 and, after her death in 1922, his sister-in-law Freda von Pfuel (1883–1964), both daughters of Gustav von Pfuel . Anton von Mohl (born March 28, 1916 - April 16, 2013), lieutenant colonel , commander of the tank reconnaissance battalion 6 , right knight of the Order of St. John, was his son. He was married to Irmgard (née von Leyser ), daughter of the Infantry General Ernst von Leyser . In 1922 he and his brother Hans inherited the Arnshaugk Castle (formerly Beustsches Haus) in Thuringia, which their father had acquired in 1889 .

literature

• Gerhard Hoch: The term of office of the Segeberger district administrator Waldemar von Mohl 1932–1945 , Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2001, ISBN 3-933374-92-8
• Sebastian Lehmann with the assistance of Uwe Danker: On the role of District Administrator Waldemar von Mohl in the Nazi era , Democratic History 24 (2013) , pp. 165–200, ISBN 978-3-933862-47-1
• Neustädter Kreisbote, Volume 29, No. 24/2018 from 1. Dec. 2018, p. 18 ("What the Neustädter Kreisbote reported" - 100 years ago in our city)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Arno Panzer: From the district of Kiel to the district of Bordesholm 1867 to 1932 , in: 100 years of the district of Rendsburg. A look back from 1867 to 1967 , Rendsburg: Druckhaus Möller, 1968, p. 39 f.
2. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Hoch: The term of office of the Segeberg district administrator Waldemar von Mohl 1932–1945 Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2001, p. 37.
3. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Hoch: The term of office of the Segeberg district administrator Waldemar von Mohl 1932–1945 Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2001, p. 48.
4. ↑ Jörg Wollenberg : Search for traces behind the walls of oblivion in: Heinrun Herzberg and Eva Kammler (eds.): Biography and Society: Reflections on a Theory of the Modern Self, Frankfurt / New York 2011. p. 202
5. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Hoch: The term of office of the Segeberg district administrator Waldemar von Mohl 1932–1945 Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2001, p. 48.
6. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Hoch: The term of office of the Segeberg district administrator Waldemar von Mohl 1932–1945 Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2001, p. 66.
7. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Hoch: The term of office of the Segeberg district administrator Waldemar von Mohl 1932–1945 Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 2001, p. 66.
8. ^ University of Flensburg, Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History "Expert opinion on the role of District Administrator Dr. Waldemar von Mohl in the Segeberg district 1932-1945 ” .
9. ↑ IZRG - Ibid., P. 25, see also Sebastian Lehmann , see above , Democratic History 24 (2013) , p. 192.
10. ↑ v. Rappard, Pfuel (Pfuhl, Phull), in: Deutsches Adelsarchiv eV (ed.), Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser A Volume XX, Volume 93 of the complete series, Limburg ad Lahn 1988, p. 335
11. ↑ Spiegel Online: THE MONOCLE OF THE ARMY - DER SPIEGEL 8/1967 . March 25, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017.