Walter Todt

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Walter Todt (born November 4, 1880 in Breslau , † November 19, 1945 in the Vologda Oblast ) was a German colonial civil servant and lawyer.

Life

Todt's father was the railroad director of the Prussian State Railways Albert Todt († 1908). Walter Todt attended the Evangelical Ratsgymnasium Erfurt and the humanistic grammar school in Essen . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1899 . He became active in the Corps Hannovera Göttingen and proved himself as a sub- senior and senior . He served his internship in Erfurt. In 1907 he was chairman of the Kösener Seniors Convent Association for the Göttingen Seniors' Convent .

After the assessor examination, he entered the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia and was government assessor in Halle (Saale) . He moved to the Reich Colonial Office and was district judge at the Imperial High Court in Windhoek in German South West Africa 1910/11 . From 1910 to 1914 he was district administrator (di Landrat ) in Windhoek.

After the First World War he was as a Geh. Government councilor in the Reich Ministry for Reconstruction . It had to implement the Treaty of Versailles and thereby liquidate the German colonies and protected areas . It was taken over by the staff of the Reich Colonial Office. After the ministry was liquidated in 1924, Todt settled in Berlin in 1925 as a lawyer and notary. He was managing director of the imperial overseas industrial and trading company in Berlin. In the Second World War he last took part as a major on the Eastern Front. He died after the Second World War in captivity in the Soviet POW camp 7437 in Tscherepenietz in the Vologda Oblast , where he is also buried. He was married and had two sons, one of whom had died in the war.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 820
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 42 , 797.
  3. ↑ Federal Archives , Fascicle R 1002/2317
  4. ↑ Personnel files in the Federal Archives Fascicles R 1002/1753 and R 1002/1754 (1910–1914)
  5. ^ "Todt" in Biographies of Namibia
  6. ↑ from 2002 with headquarters in Bonn as a subsidiary of IVG Immobilien , registered at Bonn District Court , HRB 9906 ; Liquidation in 2012 through merger
  7. ↑ Martin Eberhardt: Between National Socialism and Apartheid: The German Population Group of South West Africa 1915-1965 , LIT Verlag, Münster 2007, p. 548.
  8. ↑ = Cherepovets ?; the three final digits of the camp match on Wikipedia in the article Tscherepowez and in the online information of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge!
  9. ↑ Information online about Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
  10. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 1030
personal data
SURNAME Todt, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonial official and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1945
Place of death Vologda Oblast