Walter Woldemar Wilhelm

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The landmark of the new middle class favored by Wilhelm and Schlüter (cover picture of "The Mission of the Middle Classes")

Walther or Walter Woldemar Wilhelm (born March 5, 1886 in Potschappel ; † unknown, after 1945) was a Saxon lawyer, writer and politician of the economic party . In 1927 he was briefly Minister of Economics of the Free State of Saxony .

Life

After attending the humanistic Wettiner grammar school in Dresden, Wilhelm studied law at the universities in Heidelberg , Berlin and Leipzig . He did military service in the colonial force for German South West Africa and took over as officer of artillery on the First World War in part. From 1918 Wilhelm practiced as a lawyer and notary in Dresden.

In 1919 Wilhelm was a member of the German delegation to the peace negotiations in Versailles .

In addition to his professional activity, he was active as a writer and in 1924, together with Willy Schlüter, wrote the book The Mission of the Middle Classes - 99 Theses for the Creative People. From the end of the 1920s he was the owner of the manor at Lauterbach Castle near Großenhain .

As a member of the Reichspartei des Deutschen Mittelstandes (Economic Party ), Wilhelm was in a coalition with the ASPD , DDP and DVP from January 13, 1927 to June 30, 1927 under Prime Minister Max Heldt (ASPD) Minister of Economics in the Free State of Saxony . Wilhelm was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1926 to 1933 .

From 1931 to 1933 Wilhelm was deputy chairman of the Economic Party, which was now in decline. On February 9, 1932, he also took over the chairmanship of the economic party faction in the Saxon state parliament.

After the National Socialists came to power , Wilhelm joined the NSDAP. He continued to work as a lawyer in Dresden. In 1936, together with Willy Schlueter, he published the book Vom Geist der deutschen Stände , which was published by List-Verlag in Leipzig. (However, Schlueter had already died in 1935.) In 1943 Wilhelm was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a judge- martial in the Crimea . Towards the end of the Second World War, he is said to have been under house arrest in Lauterbach for “ decomposing military strength ”.

Walter Wilhelm was arrested by the Red Army in 1945 , possibly deported and has not been seen since. Lauterbach Castle was expropriated.

In the Soviet zone of occupation , the spirit of the German estates relied on the index of books to be sorted out .

Fonts (selection)

  • Versailles: Insights and Prospects. Laube, Dresden 1919, OCLC 989788079 .
  • with Willy Schlueter: The mission of the middle class. 99 theses for the creative people. Laube, Dresden 1925, OCLC 247072841 .
  • with Willy Schlueter: On the spirit of the German estates. List, Leipzig 1936, OCLC 72389748 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Lilla : The Reichsrat - Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919-1934. A biographical manual . Droste Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7700-5279-0 , p. 338.
  2. ↑ a b Wilhelm, Walther. In: Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 1698.
  3. ^ Wilhelm, Walter Woldemar. in minutes of the state parliament, accessed on February 13, 2015.
  4. ^ Negotiations of the Saxon State Parliament. 5th electoral term. Third volume 1931/32 , p. 2771.
  5. ^ Martin Schumacher: Mittelstandsfront und Republik. The Economic Party - Reich Party of the German Mittelstand. 1919–1933 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 44, ISSN  0522-6643 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1972, p. 234.
  6. ↑ See Dresden address book 1943/44.
  7. ↑ Kathrin Krüger-Mlaouhia: Lauterbach Difficult search for traces of the lord of the castle. In: Saxon newspaper . (Grossenhain local edition) of November 29, 2011.
  8. ↑ Annemarie Naumann: Lauterbach Stories 1930–1945 . Förderverein Schloss und Park Lauterbach 2011 and Kathrin Krüger-Mlaouhia: Lauterbach Difficult search for traces of the lord of the castle. In: Saxon newspaper . (Grossenhain local edition) of November 29, 2011.
  9. ^ Lauterbach Castle , accessed on February 13, 2015.
  10. ^ Ministry of National Education of the German Democratic Republic, list of the literature to be sorted out on polunbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm, Walter Woldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon lawyer, writer and politician (Economic Party), Member of the State Parliament, Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Potschappel
DATE OF DEATH after 1945