Walter Goehtz

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Walter Goehtz (born February 1, 1878 in Labes , Province of Pomerania , † March 30, 1946 in Eckartsberga ) was mayor of the cities of Plathe and Greifenberg in Pomerania.

Life

After graduating from high school, Goehtz began studying law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , where he became a member of the Berlin fraternity Germania. In the winter semester of 1898 he moved to the University of Greifswald . There he became a member of the Greifswald fraternity Rugia .

After his studies he started as a laborer in the magistrate of the city and was labes 1,905 laborers City Municipality Treptow an der Rega . In 1906 he was appointed mayor of the town of Plathe and in 1911 he was appointed mayor of the town of Greifenberg. After his retirement on January 16, 1935, he lived in Międzyzdroje in summer and in Szczecin in winter. Walter Goehtz was dismissed from service at the beginning of 1935 at the age of 57 with no further income.

Walther Goehtz looked for and found a new job as an acquirer of the Alte Berlinische Lebens-Versicherung, which to some extent corrected his financial situation. It was enough to rent an apartment and after a while even to a small summer apartment in Miedzyzdroje on the Baltic Sea. When the Second World War had lasted just six months, Goehtz was conscripted; Because of his extensive experience in municipal administration, he became the head of the price monitoring department at the regional president in Szczecin. This task could not be mastered without some resistance and became even more difficult from 1943 onwards. The bombing had also hit the Pomeranian cities and their economies with increasing force, especially Szczecin. In March 1945 the Russians conquered Szczecin. Goehtz lived through the summer of 1945, poorly vegetating from day to day. After the much worse winter of 1945/46, the youngest son managed to take his almost starved parents to Born on the Darss in an adventurous way. Four weeks later, Walter Goehtz died of heart failure in Eckartsberga / Thuringia.

family

Walter Goehtz was married to Marie geb. Ulbrich (* February 8, 1887 in Glauchau, † August 13, 1979 in Munich) and had three sons Hans Peter Ulrich Goehtz (* March 23, 1908 in Plathe / Pomerania), Werner Georg Adolf (Sepp) Goehtz (* July 14 1910 in Plathe) and Hans Dieter Goehtz (born April 13, 1917 in Greifenberg).

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 151.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Satori-Neumann : The Berlin Burschenschaft Germania , Berlin 1912.
  2. ↑ Macdonald, Paul (ed.): History of the Greifswalder Burschenschaft Rugia , Giessen 1981.
personal data
SURNAME Goehtz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer, mayor of the cities of Plathe and Greifenberg
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Labes
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1946
Place of death Eckartsberga