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Walter Kriege (full name Walter Adolf Florens Hermann Kriege ; born March 15, 1891 in Asunción , † December 1, 1952 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Kriege studied law and received his doctorate . He took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1921 to 1923 Kriege worked for the Reichsbank and then until 1944 in the Prussian administration of justice and the administration of justice in the Reich. In April 1940, Kriege was Ministerialdirektor in the Reich Ministry of Justice . From April 23 to 24, 1941, Kriege took part in a meeting of the highest lawyers in the " House of Aviators " in Berlin , where the participants were informed about the " Action T4 " for " Destroying life unworthy of life " (" Euthanasia "). From 1939 to 1944 he was also President of the Oberprisenhof.

Kriege was planned in the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet as State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice or as Minister of Justice. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 failed, Kriege was arrested and released in November 1944.

After the end of the Second World War , Kriege was deputy chairman of the German Finance Council and deputy director of the administration for finances from 1946 to 1949. From February 1, 1950 until his death, Kriege was President of the State Central Bank of North Rhine-Westphalia . His successor in office was Pankraz Geiselhart (January 1, 1953 to March 31, 1956).

Because of his good knowledge of the Reich Ministry of Justice, Kriege was one of his most important advisors on BMJ personnel issues for Walter Strauss , from 1949 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ).

Walter Kriege was the son of the diplomat Johannes Kriege , nephew - and son-in-law - of the architect Richard Saran , the great-nephew of the pastor Otto Funcke , the grandson of the Bremen Mayor John Daniel Meier and the cousin - and brother-in-law - of the journalist Mary Saran . He was a relative of the early socialist Hermann Kriege (1820–1850).

Walter Kriege died in Berlin in 1952 at the age of 61 and was buried in the Dahlem cemetery. The grave is preserved.

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  1. ↑ a b Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
  2. ↑ a b c Cabinet minutes online
  3. ^ Testimony of Wilhelm von Ammon to the Public Prosecutor's Office in proceedings Ks 1/69 before the LG Frankfurt am Main, cf. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 341, 16; see. Helmut Kramer : “Holding a court day about yourself” - Fritz Bauer's procedure for the involvement of the judiciary in institutional murder. In: Hanno Loewy and Bettina Winter: Nazi euthanasia in court: Fritz Bauer and the limits of legal coping . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, pp. 84–86, 117.
  4. ↑ "Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg envisages wars in the government plans of the conspirators as State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice." Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
  5. ^ Gerhard Ritter : Carl Goerdeler and the German resistance movement. DVA, Stuttgart 1984. pp. 617-619.
  6. ↑ 50 years of the State Central Bank in North Rhine-Westphalia (pdf p. 6)
  7. ^ Manfred Görtemaker , Christoph Safferling : The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69768-5 , pp. 113 and 320.
  8. ↑ Kulenkampff'sche Familienstiftung (ed.), Family tables of the Kulenkampff family, Bremen: Verlag BC Heye & Co 1959, line John Daniel Meier , JDM, pp. 47–50.
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 570.
personal data
SURNAME Wars, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wars, Walter Adolf Florens Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Asunción
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1952
Place of death Dusseldorf