Walter Woelz

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Walter Woelz (also: Walter Wölz ; born January 12, 1892 in Haiphong ; † March 9, 1955 ) was a German lawyer , businessman and entrepreneur .

Life

Walter Woelz was born at the time of the German Empire in 1892 in Haiphong in the colony of French Indochina , which was then ruled by France . After his matriculation examination , he served as a first lieutenant in the 4th Württemberg Field Artillery Regiment No. 65 during the First World War and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross , the Knight's Cross of the Order of Frederick with Swords and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Military Merit, before joining in November 1918 was discharged from the Württemberg army .

Woelz studied law in Leipzig at the university there , where he completed his dissertation in 1920 on the subject of the legal barriers to compulsory entry to entrepreneurial controls . In the same year he married on October 20, 1920, went through his legal clerkship and graduated with the title Dr. iuris .

Towards the end of the Weimar Republic , Woelz took over the duties of legal advisor at the Ilseder Hütte in Peine in 1932 , for which he worked until 1938. Meanwhile, he was the in Hanover active Rotary Club Hannover joined in which he to the year by 1933 , the Nazis forced 1,937 self-dissolution of the club volunteer worked as a secretary. Here he wrote extensive summaries of up to 50 incoming club reports from other German Rotary clubs almost every week. Woelz's weekly reports were thus given the character of an internal newsletter for all German Rotary clubs and were accordingly requested in large numbers from outside. During the club's dissolution in 1937, Woelz served as the association's vice-president.

Meanwhile Woelz worked from 1936 and until the first year of the war in 1939, parallel to other tasks in the tax committee of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry . During this time, he lived at Wilhelmstrasse 5 in Hanover, he also worked for the Northwest Iron and Steel Employer's Liability Insurance Association .

In 1938 Woelz received the information from Deutsche Bank in Bamberg that Sally Kahn , who came from a Jewish family , wanted to sell his shares in the Bamberg company Neue Metallwarenfabrik Bamberg, Oehlhorn & Kahn OHG to an “ Aryan ” due to the “ Aryanization ” pressure . On October 15, 1938, just a few weeks before the November pogroms , Kahn sold his company shares to Woelz for a nominal sum of 295,000 Reichsmarks . However, as the amount had to be paid into a blocked account due to the Aryanization regulations and high taxes and duties were withheld from the sum, the Kahn family was later only able to dispose of a fraction of the originally agreed amount. In addition, Kahn was arrested during the so-called “ Reichskristallnacht ” and deported to the Dachau concentration camp as a “protective custody Jew” . After his release at Christmas 1938, a contract dated January 5, 1939 agreed that Kahn would be the managing director of the foreign company branch Prodoka . With effect from April 13, 1939, Kahn left the German parent company completely, which was then converted into a GmbH under Woelz and operated as Oelhorn & Woelz . Subsequently, Woelz managed the operating business of the Bamberg company largely alone with the help of his authorized signatories Hugo Lips, Karl Weber and Leonhard Schneider.

During the Second World War , Woelz was a member of the control committee of the material refinement economic group from 1940 to 1945 . There are sources from this time that prove the participation of Oelhorn & Woelz in the production for the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war, the American occupation authorities put Oelhorn & Woelz under property control in October 1945, and the former authorized signatory Carl Weber - who had previously worked well with Woelz - was appointed trustee and managing director. Peace production began slowly in 1946, initially with 40 employees.

Woelz remained attached to the resolution at the time of National Socialism Rotary Club of Hanover and was - although in the post-war era still living in Bamberg - in those years to honor a member appointed by the organization. He also developed a number of activities to start the Rotarian community.

In 1951 Woelz left his company as a personally liable partner.

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The person who died in 1955 was buried in the Kreidler family grave at the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart . In addition to other family members, the gravestone also contains the inscription for Margarethe Woelz , née Kreidler (1898–1988).

Fonts (selection)

  • The legal barriers to compulsory membership of entrepreneur controls , dissertation 1920 at the University of Leipzig
  • Rotary and National Socialism , in: The Rotarian , Issue 2 (1955), pp. 97–105

literature

  • Robert Jockusch (editor), Fritz Schuppert (collaborator): Rotary Club Hannover. Festschrift for the twenty-fifth anniversary 1932–1957. Twenty-five years of the Rotary Club Hannover , ed. from the Rotary Club Hannover, Hannover: printed by Th. Schäfer, 1957, passim ; as a PDF document from d-1800.org

Archival material

Archives by and about Walter Woelz can be found, for example

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviatingly, the French rear India is mentioned; also compare the self-statements on the officers' questionnaire

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Margarete Wagner-Braun (project management, editing), Michael Hamoser, Ursula Stollberg, Stefan Henricks: Company history OEKAMETALL from 1914 to 1954 , partial presentation of the company history as the basis of a historical research project at the Otto Friedrich University Bamberg , Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Institute for History and European Ethnology, Professorship for Economic and Innovation History on the page univis.uni-bamberg.de [ undated ], last accessed on July 6, 2019
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Robert Jockusch (red.), Fritz Schuppert (collabor.): Our dead , in this: Rotary Club Hannover. Festschrift for the twenty-fifth anniversary 1932–1957. Twenty-five years of the Rotary Club Hannover , ed. from the Rotary Club Hannover, Hannover: printed by Th. Schäfer, 1957, p. 49; as a PDF document from d-1800.org
  4. ↑ a b c d e Compare the information and the documents in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives about the German Digital Library
  5. ↑ a b Compare the information provided by the Baden-Württemberg Library Service Center
  6. ^ A b 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
  7. ^ A b 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
  8. ↑ New Metallfabrik Bamberg Oehlhorn & Woelz, Bamberg , in: metal , Volume 5 (1951), p 43; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ Compare the information provided by Barbara Kloubert and her photo documentation on findagrave.com
  10. ↑ Christian Schrenk: Heilbronn Rotary under the swastika , special print from Christhard Schrenk (ed.): Heilbronnica. Contributions to the history of the town (= sources and research on the history of the town of Heilbronn , Volume 11), Heilbronn: Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, 2000, p. 276; as a PDF document from d-1800.org
personal data
SURNAME Woelz, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wölz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Haiphong , French Indochina
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1955