Walter Liebrecht

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Walter Liebrecht (also: W. Walter Liebrecht ; * August 7, 1879 in Potsdam , † August 25, 1945 in Hanover ) was a German officer and state forest master .

Life

family

Walter Liebrecht was the second eldest of four sons of the Royal Chief Forester and Chief Forester Wilhelm Liebrecht (born June 10, 1848 in Minden; † November 22, 1911 in Oppeln) and Margarethe Karboth (born September 17, 1846 in the Pappelau forestry near Oppeln; † September 15, 1936 in Opole).

Liebrecht married Klara or Clara Vorster in 1912.

The couple married in October 1912 and had a daughter and two sons:

  1. Ruth (* July 17, 1913; † February 4, 1980 in Hanover), who later became the housekeeper and "personal assistant" of the British Commander in Hanover, married the then forest assessor and later Stahlhelm member Major Hans- Caspar Graf von Bothmer († December 1941 outside Moscow);
  2. Klaus (Klaus Walter Liebrecht; born January 4, 1916), later officer and engineer
  3. Helmut (born November 4, 1921; fallen July 3, 1942).

Career

As the son of the Royal Chief Forester and Chief Forester, Walter Liebrecht spent his youth one after the other in various forestry offices in the eastern parts of the German Empire . After high school, he first served as a one-year volunteer in the infantry battalion in the Silesian Hirschberg . He then studied forestry at the Higher Forestry School in Eberswalde and at the Royal Prussian Forest Academy in Hannoversch-Münden . He then worked as a trainee lawyer in the Oberförsterei Ebstorf before he passed his state examination in 1905 with the assessor exam.

Meanwhile, Walter Liebrecht had been a member of the officer corps of the Royal Prussian Army since September 14, 1900 , and worked here especially in the Reitende Feldjäger-Korps . From 1909 to 1911 he was to London to the German Embassy in command and to Paris at the local German Embassy ; at the same time he was attached as a special courier for Kaiser Wilhelm II . In his pension in Paris he met the brother of his future wife, who also lived there.

From 1912 Liebrecht worked initially as a forestry assessor, then also as a chief forester “with the Hanover government ”. After the daughter of the Cologne councilor and industrialist Fritz Vorster , who died in 1912 and also a partner in the Kalk Chemical Factory , was married to "Forstassessor Liebrecht" in the same year, the now wife Clara Liebrecht gave bookplates through the magazine . Book art and applied graphics, in addition to the name data to be changed, also known their new address in "[...] Hanover, Wilhelmstrasse 10a".

At the beginning of the First World War in 1914 Liebrecht initially led a company of Jäger Battalion 5 on the Western Front . After he had been awarded the Iron Cross (EK) second and first class in September 1914 , he was involved in the heavy fighting at Fort Vaux in 1915 and 1916 during the Battle of Verdun . As a result, he was transferred to the Eastern Front and counted with his battalion in the Carpathian Corps . At the end of 1916 he was finally assigned to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief East as a forestry expert .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic, Walter Liebrecht worked briefly “with the government in Cologne ” before he was given the management of the Beneckenstein Forestry Office in the Upper Harz in 1919 .

Likewise in 1919 Liebrecht was "on behalf of the government involved in initiating the reparation negotiations in Versailles and Paris."

In 1922 Liebrecht was initially appointed as an unskilled worker in the Ministry of Agriculture, which was then the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests . In 1923 , the Hanover Provincial Parliament finally unanimously elected him , who had also been awarded the title of Chief Forester, to be State Forest Master for the Province of Hanover .

The Liebrecht house in Hanover , named after the state forest master, was built by Paul Bonatz from 1923 to 1924

The now state forest master had his own house built on the Eilenriede for himself and his family in Hanover with the character of a forester's house: the architect of the Liebrecht house at 28 Schopenhauerstraße, which was built in Hanover-Kleefeld from 1923 to 1924 and named after the client, was Paul Bonatz . “Frau Liebrecht, Landesforstmeister” was registered in 1929 as a member of the German Dendrological Society at the address “Schopenhauer Str. 8”.

Around 1930 Walter Liebrecht carried the title of "Landesforstrat".

At the time of National Socialism , Liebrecht succeeded in not joining the NSDAP , despite his high official position . Along with other leading personalities from business and culture, he had been a member of the Rotary Club of Hanover since 1932 , where he gave several lectures, among other things. Its self-dissolution in 1937, as an official in the service of the Hanoverian Provincial Association under pressure from the National Socialists, he had previously resigned.

At the end of the 1930s, the German Forest Association listed Liebrecht as "Prov.-Oberforstmeister, Hanover".

During the Second World War, he was also a member of the Natural History Society of Hanover , which he was also titled "Oberforstmeister" , and of which he belonged until his death. Previously, for example, he had encouraged the botanist and plant biologist Reinhold Tüxen to carry out an “air crook ” on the occasion of his terrestrial recordings for the first vegetation map of Northwest Germany .

Even after the formal dissolution of the Rotary Club Hanover, some of the former members continued to meet during the Second World War: At Liebrecht's home as his host, the physician Karl Westphal reported for the first time about his experiences at the Battle of, which were not filtered by the Nazi war propaganda Stalingrad .

At the beginning of 1942, Oberforstmeister Liebrecht mourned his son-in-law Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, who had fallen before Moscow, and the death of his son Helmut that same year.

The last address book of the city of Hanover from the time of the World War listed Walter Liebrecht, who was referred to there as regional forest master, as head of the household and house owner at the address Schopenhauerstraße 8 . Until his death in August 1945, Walter Liebrecht had headed the forest administration of the province of Hanover for more than two decades before he died of pneumonia in the early post-war period in August 1945 at the age of 66.

Publications

  • Wasteland afforestation by the provincial administration of Landesforstmeister Liebrecht, Hanover. In: Der deutsche Forstwirt 12/1930, p. 451 f.

Web links

Commons : Walter Liebrecht  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ derogation is 1924 mentioned as a year of appointment to this position; compare Carl H. Liebrecht: Chronicle of the Liebrecht Family , corrected and revised new edition, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7448-5108-4 , especially pp. 101-103; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Carl H. Liebrecht: Chronicle of the Liebrecht Family , corrected and revised new edition, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7448-5108-4 , especially pp. 101-103; limited preview in Google Book search.
  2. ^ A b Rudolf Martin : Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires in the Rhine province (= The yearbook of the millionaires in Germany in 20 volumes , Volume 9), Berlin: Martin, 1913, p. 233; Digitized as PDF document of the Digital Texts page in the Seminar for Economic and Corporate History / Digital Texts at the Inst. Of Economic and Business history at the University of Cologne
  3. ^ A b Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook (co-worker): Genealogical handbook of noble houses , Starke, 1963, p. 85; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Deutsche Forst-Zeitung , number 25, volume 38 (1923), p. 432; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Seniority list of officers of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII (Royal Württemberg Army Corps) , Berlin: Mittler & Sohn, 1909, p. 41; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ^ Announcements of the Exlibrisverein zu Berlin , Volumes 7-11, 1913, p. 10; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ Gerd Weiß : The "Landhausviertel with Bauwich" east of the institution for the blind. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 84ff .; here: p. 86; as well as Kleefeld in the addendum : List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 17ff .; here: p. 19
  8. ^ Helmut Knocke: Bonatz, Paul , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 64; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ^ Helmut Knocke: Bonatz, Paul , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 74f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: Haus Liebrecht , in this: Architectural Guide Hanover (= Architectural Guide to Hanover ), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , p. 255; limited preview in Google Book search
  11. ^ Announcements of the German Dendrological Society. Membership Directory 1929 , p. 80; limited preview in Google Book search
  12. ↑ Deutsche Forst-Zeitung , Volume 45, Issue 1, 1930, p. 256; limited preview in Google Book search
  13. ↑ Zeitschrift für Forst- und Jagdwesen , Volume 62, published by Julius Springer, 1930, p. 318; limited preview in Google Book search
  14. ^ Tharandter Forstliches Jahrbuch , Volume 81, Verlagbuchhandlung Paul Parey, 1930, p. 116; limited preview in Google Book search
  15. ^ Finding aid of the files of German Rotary Clubs ; Digitized on the doczz.com.br website
  16. ^ Dieter Brosius : The difficult early years 1932–1937 , in Friedrich Geigant , Dieter Brosius: Rotary Club Hannover 1932–2007, 75 years. Festschrift , Hannover: Rotary Club Hannover, 2007, pp. 36–45; here: p. 44; as a PDF document on the d-1800.org page
  17. ^ Annual report of the German Forest Association 1938 , p. 256; limited preview in Google Book search
  18. ↑ Report for the years 1942/43 to 1946/47 , in: Annual report of the Natural History Society in Hanover , issues 94–98, 1947, p. 3; limited preview in Google Book search
  19. ^ Archives for Forestry , German Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1956, p. 142; limited preview in Google Book search
  20. ^ Friedrich von Wilpert : Rotary in Germany. An excerpt from German Destiny , Bonn, Mittelstrasse 60: F. v. Wilpert, [1982?], P. 211; Digitized as a PDF document from d-1800.org
  21. ↑ Völkischer Beobachter / Wiener Beobachter number 7 of January 7, 1942, p. 5; Digitized via ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
  22. ↑ Address book of the city of Hanover for 1943, Part I: Heads of Households registered companies and businesses by name , p. 328; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation .
  23. ↑ Forstliche Rundschau Vol. 3, 1931; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Liebrecht, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebrecht, W. Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and forest master of the province of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1945
Place of death Hanover