Walter Schlueter (District Administrator)

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Walter Schlueter (born August 26, 1909 in Hattingen ; † May 21, 1977 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer and provisional district administrator in the district of Cochem and provisional district administrator in the district of Zell (Mosel) and district administrator in the Meschede district .

Life

Schlüter was the son of a payroll clerk who attended the Waldstrasse secondary school in Hattingen from 1919 to 1928. There he successfully passed his matriculation examination at the Abiturienta Easter 1928 . He then studied law in Tübingen from 1928 , where he passed the first state examination in 1932 . From October 31, 1932, he took his first job as a trainee lawyer at the Hamm Higher Regional Court and on July 31, 1934, he received his doctorate in law . In 1936 he passed the Grand State Examination and switched to the government in Schneidemühl as an assessor . In October 1937, Schlueter was appointed government assessor in order to take up this position at the district office in Bad Kreuznach in October of the following year 1938 . There, he was appointed on 8 March 1940 Regierungsrat , which until November 1941, he's from August 1939 Conscientious ableistete, most recently as a lieutenant d. R. with the 16th Infantry Division .

Schlüter had been a member of the SA since 1926 (most recently SA-Obersturmführer ) and joined the NSDAP in August 1927 , from which he left in December 1928, but rejoined on June 1, 1931.

In the period from February to May 19, 1942, he temporarily represented the position of district administrator in the district of Zell (Mosel) and in the district of Cochem before he was transferred to the district of Meschede as provisional district administrator. On October 27, 1942, he received his definitive appointment as district administrator, but on May 17, 1945 he was relieved of his office as district administrator due to an order from the military government . Interned from April to June 1945, Schlueter was finally imprisoned in February 1946. As part of the denazification in October 1946, initially provisionally classified in the group of the less polluted (category 3), followed in September 1947 by a new classification in the group of followers (category 2) and, after another arrest by French authorities in 1948, a final downgrade in April 1949 to (Category 1) for people who were considered exonerated.

As district administrator, Schlüter was officially retired before December 1949 and was most recently active as a manager of a commercial clerk and authorized signatory of a road construction company. Since 1945 he lived in Berge , a district of the district town of Meschede .

Web links

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Schlüter, Walter . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 309.
  • Robert Castor: The district administrators of Cochem and Zell in: Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 2006, p. 68.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 283 note 18 .
  2. ↑ Christian Bubenzer, Christoph Schöneborn: The Waldstraße high school in Hattingen 1914–1918 , Festschrift 1994, Abiturienta Easter 1928, No. 210, Schlüter, Walter, Hattingen.
  3. ↑ Denazification 5 categories of burdens hamburg.de , accessed on January 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattingen
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1977
Place of death Heidelberg