Walter Bärlin
Walter Bärlin (born October 20, 1900 in Bietigheim , † February 26, 1975 in Freudenstadt ) was a German National Socialist politician .
Life
Walter Bärlin came from an old Swabian Protestant family of officials. After graduating from high school in Esslingen am Neckar in 1918 , he was a soldier on the Western Front and after the First World War he joined the Wildermuth student battalion in 1919 , which took part in the train against Munich. In 1920 he became a member of a volunteer corps of General Sproesser in the Ruhr Uprising .
From 1919 to 1923 he studied law and political science in Tübingen and Munich . During his studies in 1919 he became a member of the Tübingen royal society Roigel . After the legal traineeship in 1923 and the examination for the higher judicial service in 1927, he worked as a lawyer in Esslingen from 1926 to 1927 , before he was elected mayor in Trossingen in 1929 . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . Walter Bärlin was a member of the Nazi legal guardian association from 1934 and became an honorary SA storm leader in 1937 .
From 1934 to 1945 he was appointed mayor of the city of Friedrichshafen at the instigation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP Württemberg-Hohenzollern Wilhelm Murr after his predecessor had been illegally deposed. Bärlin was appointed provisional district administrator of the Friedrichshafen district ( Tettnang district ) by the French military government on June 2, 1945 , but was dismissed from this office on July 6, 1945.
After a brief internment in Friedrichshafen in July 1945, he was dismissed from all offices in 1946 and banned from practicing law until he was rehabilitated as "exonerated" by the Tübingen Chamber in 1948 . From 1948 he worked as a civil servant in waiting as a legal advisor at Esslingen companies and was retired in 1951.
In 1955 he was elected mayor of the city of Freudenstadt and retired in 1963.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 32–33.
- Frank Raberg: Walter Bärlin. The little town "guide". In: Wolfgang Proske (ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 5. Nazi victims from the Lake Constance area , Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2016, ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 . Pp. 35-46.
- Michaela Häffner: Post-war period in southern Württemberg. The city of Friedrichshafen and the Tettnang district in the forties and fifties. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-486-56457-0 , ( National Socialism and Post-War Era in Southwest Germany 8), (also: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 1998).
- Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 .
Web links
- Walter Bärlin denazification files as a digital reproduction in the online offer of the Sigmaringen State Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michaela Häffner: Post-war period in southern Württemberg: the city of Friedrichshafen and the district of Tettnang in the forties and fifties. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-486-56457-0 , p. 43.
Alfred Hartranft (1877–1919) | Ernst Blaicher (1919–1944) | Friedrich Rothfuß (1945–1948) | Hermann Saam (1948–1955) | Walter Bärlin (1956–1963) | Gerhard Wolf (1964–1983) | Hans H. Pfeifer (1983-1991) | Erwin Reichert (1991-2008) | Julian Osswald (since 2008)
Walter Bärlin (1934–1945) | August Bertsch (1945–1946) | Josef Mauch (1946–1948) | Max Grünbeck (1949–1977) | Martin Herzog (1978–1985) | Bernd Wiedmann (1985-2001) | Josef Büchelmeier (2001–2009) | Andreas Brand (since 2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bärlin, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th October 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bietigheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1975 |
| Place of death | Freudenstadt |