Walter Asmis

Walter Asmis (born September 22, 1880 in Mesekenhagen , Pomerania , † October 29, 1954 ) was a German lawyer and agricultural functionary.

Life and work

After an agricultural apprenticeship , Walter Asmis studied agriculture and economics in Berlin from 1900 to 1903 , then law in Rostock and Erlangen . After receiving his doctorate , he worked in various agricultural administrative departments. From 1919 to 1928 he acted as managing director of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein and then until 1933 in the same position in the Prussian Province of Saxony . He then worked in the Reich Ministry of Economics . In 1946 he was interrogated as a witness to his former superior, the former Reich Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht, at the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals .

Then he was director of Export Bau- und Handels GmbH in Berlin. In 1947 he was Vice President of the German Agricultural Society in Frankfurt am Main . In 1948 he was a managing board member of the Association of Chambers of Agriculture . He was a co-founder of the Central Committee of German Agriculture .

His older brother was Rudolf Asmis .

Honors

• 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts (selection)

• Extent and development of internal colonization in Pomerania in the years 1875–1902 and the structure of agricultural conditions in the colonies. Publication information: Greifswald: Abel, 1903, University thesis: Berlin, Univ., Phil. Diss., 1903

• The agricultural employment contract according to civil and servant law. Stollberg, Merseburg 1909. (Jurist. Dissertation Erlangen)
• On the development of farm labor wages in Prussia. Parey, Berlin 1919.
• Agricultural sales. 1931.

literature

• Degener's who is it? Edition 1958
• Asmis, Walter . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 20.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Fischwirt 4 (1954), p. 367.
2. ^ The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Court of Justice in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1947, Vol. 12, pp. 540-576. ( Digitized at Zeno.org )
3. ↑ Extent and development of internal colonization in Pomerania in the years 1875 - 1902 and the structure of agricultural conditions in the colonies / Walter Asmis. In: kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .