Walter Granzow

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Walter Granzow

Walter Granzow (born August 13, 1887 in Schönhagen , † December 3, 1952 in Bad Schwartau ) was a German farmer , landowner and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life and work

Walter Granzow was born on August 13, 1887 as the son of a farmer in Schönhagen. After attending the Schönhagen village school, the middle school in Pritzwalk and the higher agricultural school in Dahme / Mark, he went through further training at the agricultural institute of the University of Halle . He then worked in practical agriculture and in 1910 took over his parents' estate in Geestgottberg . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier .

Granzow worked from 1919 to 1922 as the dike captain of the Wischedeich Association and from 1922 to 1932 as an estate manager in Severin , where he actively supported the Artamans . Joseph Goebbels and Magda Quandt married on December 19, 1931 on this estate . On November 1, 1933, Granzow became chairman of the board of directors (president) of the Deutsche Rentenbank Kreditanstalt (RKA) based in Berlin . In the following years he acted as chairman of the supervisory boards of various banks, including RKA, Deutsche Lachtbank and Grain-Kreditbank. Furthermore, he was chairman of the board of directors of the Deutsche Siedlungsbank, after having already been the representative for imperial settlement. He was also a member of the Academy for German Law in Munich . After the Second World War , Granzow was arrested and interned from 1945 to 1948. He then worked first as a business consultant and later as a representative for a margarine factory in Holstein . Walter Granzow died on December 3, 1952 in Bad Schwartau.

Walter Granzow was married to Gertrud Ewald . His brother-in-law was the industrialist Günther Quandt , after the death of Granzow's sister-in-law Antonie, he was married to Magda Goebbels from 1921 to 1929.

politics

Granzow joined the NSDAP in 1931 ( membership number 482.923) and was the NSDAP's agricultural regional advisor for Mecklenburg - Lübeck from 1931 to 1933 . He was also a state farmer's guide for Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Lübeck. From 1935 he also worked with Richard Walther Darré as head of the Reich leadership of the Office for Agricultural Policy of the NSDAP .

On October 2, 1933, he was admitted to the SS (SS No. 128.801) as SS-Sturmbannführer, on April 20, 1934, he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer and on September 9, 1934, to SS-Standartenführer. On November 9, 1936, he was finally appointed SS Brigade Leader.

During the Weimar Republic , Granzow was a member of the district council in the Osterburg district . He was elected to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Parliament in 1932 and served as Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from July 13, 1932 to August 9, 1933 . At the same time he took over the management of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From July 13, 1932 to July 5, 1933 he also held the office of Minister of Finance and Agriculture, and from July 5 to August 9, 1933 also the office of Minister of Education. Granzow was a member of the Reichstag from 1933 to 1943 .

swell

  1. Dietrich Bronder: Before Hitler came. A historical study. 2nd, expanded edition. Marva, Geneva 1975, ISBN 3-85800-002-7 , p. 204.

See also

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden : The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 , p. 47/48.
  • Landesbauernschaft Kurmark (arr.): The ancestors of German farmers leaders. Volume 32. Reichsnährstand Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1936.
  • Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871-1952 . A biographical lexicon. 1st edition. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 .

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