Walter Hammersen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walter Hammersen (born January 5, 1911 in Osnabrück , † October 10, 1990 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and politician ( NSDAP , FDP ).

Life

Career

After graduating from the Humanistic Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück in 1929 , Hammersen studied law and political science at the universities of Tübingen , Munich and Göttingen . During his studies he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia in 1929 . In 1934 he passed the first state examination in law at the Higher Regional Court of Celle , then entered the civil service and worked as a government trainee in Hanover . He finished his studies in 1937 with the second state examination in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior in Berlin . After the annexation of Austria , he was seconded to the Carinthian regional administration in Klagenfurt in 1938/39 . In 1938, Hammersen was deputy district administrator for the Ostprignitz district , based in Kyritz . After the invasion of Poland , he officiated from the autumn of 1939, first as provisional district administrator and then from 1941 as district administrator of the Hohensalza district .

Hammersen was a board member of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association in Poznan in the early 1940s . From 1942 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a volunteer , was appointed lieutenant in 1943 and wounded several times. He was awarded the Iron Crosses of both classes and the Silver Wound Badge. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , but was able to escape from them and was then interned by the British until 1948.

After his release, Hammersen settled in Hesse and worked from 1949 to 1954 as a lawyer in associations of the metal wholesalers and the metal industry in Wiesbaden and Düsseldorf . From 1954 to 1966 he was the head of the economy and transport department in Wiesbaden. In addition, since 1966 he was federal manager of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in Kassel . In 1969/70 he acted as managing director of the German Road Safety Council (DVR).

Political party

Before 1945, Hammersen was a member of the NSDAP and district leader of the party in Reichsgau Wartheland . He was also a member of the SS (SS no. 28834) and was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer in 1935, and on April 20, 1940 to SS-Sturmbannführer. In 1942 he was subordinate to the Reich Security Main Office.

After the Second World War he joined the FDP and was elected chairman of the FDP district association in Wiesbaden in 1958. He was also a member of the State and Federal Main Committee of the Liberals.

MP

Hammersen was a council member for the city ​​of Wiesbaden from 1954 to 1966 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1961 to 1965. He was drawn into parliament via the state list of the FDP Hessen .

Others

After 1966, Hammersen was temporarily a member of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians , Part 7: Supplement A – K , Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 419–420.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 303.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. October 1933, p. 61.
  2. ^ SS seniority list December 1, 1937
  3. ^ SS seniority list October 1, 1942
  4. ^ SS seniority list October 1, 1942
personal data
SURNAME Hammersen, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NSDAP, FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1990
Place of death Wiesbaden