Walter Pfalzgraf

Walter Pfalzgraf (born October 4, 1883 in Guxhagen near Kassel , † September 12, 1967 ) was a German forester and senior administrative officer.

Life

After attending elementary school, Walter Pfalzgraf completed a forestry apprenticeship in Langenberg from 1898 to 1901 . After the end of his 12-year service with the Magdeburg Jäger Battalion No. 4 and his military service in the First World War, he was assigned an auxiliary forester position on the island of Wollin in early 1919. In 1921 he founded the German Förster Association and remained its chairman until it was dissolved in April 1933. In 1924 he was given the Riesenbrück forestry near Pasewalk and in 1931 the Grünetic district forester in the Frankfurt / Oder administrative district. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Pfalzgraf was initially on leave in April 1933 and finally released from the forestry service in September of the same year. From 1933 to 1945 he was an authorized signatory in his brother Karl Pfalzgraf 's accumulator factory in Berlin . After the end of the Second World War, Pfalzgraf was appointed first head of the Central Forestry Office of the Soviet zone of occupation. In October 1948 he had to give up this post due to increasing political pressure. At the end of 1949, Pfalzgraf became head of the Spandau Forestry Office in West Berlin. He held this office until his retirement in 1960. At the same time, Pfalzgraf was involved in the 1950s for foresters who had fled the GDR. He also advised the investigative committee of liberal lawyers .

Works

• Difficulties in logging, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1953.

literature

• Henrik Bispinck (arr.): The GDR as seen by the Stasi 1956. The secret reports to the SED leadership, Göttingen 2016.
• Paul-Martin Schulz: biography of Walter Pfalzgraf, the first head of the Central Forestry Office in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945–1948 (diploma thesis at the Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences), Potsdam / Berlin 1997.