Walther von Corswant

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Walther von Corswant

Walther von Corswant (born April 14, 1886 in Gumbinnen , †  December 12, 1942 in Greifswald ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), member of the Bundestag and district administrator in the Greifswald district.

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Part of the Kuntzow manor house with coat of arms
Corswant grave sites in Kuntzow

Walther von Corswant was born in 1886 as the son of an entails owner. After attending elementary school and high school and a year in the military, he was trained for a semester at the colonial school in Witzenhausen . He then worked for six semesters as a planter in the German overseas estates: first in Cameroon , then in New Guinea . Due to illness, Corswant left the tropics and returned to Germany. After recovering from his illness, he studied for a semester at the agricultural college in Jena . Following a one-year traineeship in agriculture, Corswant took over his parents' estate, the Kuntzow estate in the Greifswald district . Among the Fideikommiss owners in Pomerania, however, Corswant was considered an outsider.

At the First World War Corswant participated as a member of the 2nd Guard Infantry Regiment of Foot part before he had to retire due to the recrudescence of his acquired in the tropics stomach suffering from military service and again in agriculture became active.

In 1923 and again on June 10, 1925, Corswant joined the NSDAP ( membership number 7342) and then became the founder of the NSDAP in Pomerania. From 1927 to April 1, 1931 he was the Gauleiter of the NSDAP-Gaus Pomerania, according to a police report the Gauleitung was in Kuntzow. His successor in this office was Wilhelm Karpenstein . In 1929 Corswant became parliamentary group leader of the NSDAP in the provincial parliament of the province of Pomerania . At the same time he was also a member of the Provincial Committee and from 1935 of the Provincial Council. After the end of his work as Gauleiter Corswant worked in the economic policy department of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. Until the " seizure of power " he also acted as the department's representative.

In 1930 he founded the local branch of the NSDAP and SA-Sturm 177 in Gützkow , for which he became an honorary citizen of the city in 1934 together with Adolf Hitler (deleted in 1996).

In the general election of September 1930 Corswant was 6 (Pomerania) as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency in the parliament elected. After his mandate was confirmed in the elections of July 1932, November 1932, March 1933, November 1933, March 1936 and 1938, Corswant was a member of the German parliament without interruption until his death in December 1942. The most important parliamentary event in which Corswant took part during his time as a member of parliament was the passing - also with his vote - of the Enabling Act in March 1933.

On October 1, 1935, Corswant became a member of the Reichsbauernrat . In February 1936 he was appointed District Administrator of the district of Greifswald . On April 23, 1936, Corswant finally became a member of the Supreme Court of Honor and Disciplinary Court of the German Labor Front (DAF). He also wrote two brochures.

He was buried in the chapel in Kuntzow. The graves of his ancestors are still in the churchyard.

Fonts

  • The plight of the working German economy and the interest bondage of loan capital .
  • The currency and economy in the volkish future state

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1876 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Thévoz / Hans Branig: Pommern 1934/35 in the mirror of Gestapo reports and factual files , 1974, p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Corswant, Walther von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and district administrator in the Greifswald district
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gumbinnen
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1942
Place of death Greifswald