Walter Ballas

Walter Ballas (born November 18, 1887 in Duisburg , † 1969 in Essen ) was a German industrial lawyer.

Life

Ballas came from a Rhenish family with roots in southern France . After attending school in Duisburg and graduating from high school in Münster , he studied law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

In World War I he was first in the field artillery , later in the foot artillery . As lieutenant d. R. he was awarded the Iron Cross II. And I. Kl. 1918 doctorate he in Münster Dr. iur. In 1922 he was admitted to the bar at the Essen District Court . In 1936 he also received the notary approval . He was in-house counsel at Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen, later legal advisor and head of the legal department. In this capacity he took part in the main war criminals trial before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg as defense lawyer for Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach , and later also in the war crimes trial against Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach . Then he was again a lawyer and notary in Essen.

Ballas had been a member of the Corps Saxonia Kiel since 1907 . Even when he was inactive, he was interested in association politics. After the First World War he took part in various conferences in Kösen . He was one of the first to oppose the abuse of the drinking comment . After the Second World War he collected the Kiel Saxons in 1945/46 and in 1949 carried out the reconstitution of the corps, which later awarded him honorary membership for this purpose. For many years he also took on the duties of the old man's chairman.

Ballas was also involved in the collection of the old corps students in Essen and was chairman of the local old-man senior citizens' convention from 1936 to 1956 , which appointed him honorary president when he left. Under his aegis, the AHSC Essen was involved in the “Ruhr Working Group”, the nucleus for the re-emergence of the Association of Old Corps Students . Ballas was thus also significantly involved in the reconstitution of the VAC in Altena , which many critics felt was out of date or at least premature . He was the first post-war chairman of the VAC board from 1950 to mid-1952. During his term of office, the reconstitution of the Kösener SC Association also fell . Ballas successfully campaigned for a modern design of active life and for the abolition of outdated principles, but firmly stood by the tried and tested basic attitude of corps students . In a letter dated November 9, he contradicted Federal President Theodor Heuss that the reconstitution of the student associations was only wanted by "very old men".

literature

• Dr. Walter Ballas Saxoniae Kiel (xx.x) EM , in: Der Convent 11/1958, pp. 261–264

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Ballas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Ballas on corpsarchive.de (with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The exclusion of the right to leave the trade under Prussian mining law and its effects
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 77/168
3. ^ Letter to Heuss

predecessor	Office	successor
(Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs)	VAC chairman 1950–1952	Werner Ranz