Walter to the low

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Felix Walter zur Nieden (born December 23, 1869 in Berlin ; † December 12, 1937 there ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Mettmann district and the Geestemünde and Wesermünde districts and a member of the German People's Party .

Life

Origin and education

Walter zur Nieden was born as the son of the government architect and later senior building officer Julius zur Nieden and his wife Marie Elise Emma Lucie zur Nieden, née Schneider, in Berlin, where, with the exception of a stay at the grammar school in Landsberg an der Warthe , he was also visiting of the local Leibnizgymnasium as well as the Humboldt- and Wilhelmsgymnasium spent his school days. In Berlin, he passed at Easter 1888 with the award Primus Omnium the matriculation examination from before in Berlin and Lausanne 1888-1891 Law and Political Sciences studied. In Lausanne he also studied French and literature .

After passing the first state examination in law at the Berlin Court of Appeal (June 8, 1891), Walter zur Nieden entered the Prussian judicial service on June 18, 1891 as a trainee lawyer for further training. There he was employed at the Köpenick District Court and the District Court II in Berlin. During this phase he did his doctorate at the University of Jena on July 21, 1891 with the thesis The co-ownership relationship in the common slave and the acquisition of rights based on it ... to the Dr. jur. before doing his duty in the 3rd Guards Regiment on foot in Berlin from October 1, 1892 to 1893 .

Career

With his change as a government trainee to the Stade government (June 19, 1894), Zur Nieden's career began in the Prussian interior administration. This was followed, interrupted by a month-long trip to England to study the employment relationships there in the iron and steel industry, activities at the district offices of Lehe and Stade , before he took on as a laborer after passing the great state examination (December 18, 1897) and subsequent appointment as a government assessor the district office Lüben in Silesia came. From there, Walter zur Nieden moved to the Mettmann District Office in Vohwinkel in the same position on June 1, 1898 , to the Ministry of Trade and Industry in July 1900 and finally to the Koblenz government on January 1, 1902 . There his area of ​​responsibility included the pensions of the veterans from the Franco-German War of 1870/71 and the Moselle ferries.

As a result of the transfer of Fritz von Scherenberg as police chief to Frankfurt am Main (February 15, 1904), Walter zur Nieden was initially commissioned with the administration of the Mettmann district on February 24, 1904 (definitive appointment January 1, 1905). From 1905 to 1918 he was a member of the provincial parliament of the Prussian Rhine Province for Barmen.

During the Ruhr occupation temporarily expelled by the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission (June 21, 1923), Zur Nieden was initially put into temporary retirement on July 31, 1929 in connection with the local reorganization that took place and the resulting dissolution of the Mettmann district but entrusted with the administration of the district Geestemünde (1930 definitive appointment). When the districts of Lehe and Geestemünde were merged to form the district of Wesermünde (1932), he remained in office before he retired on April 1, 1935. He spent the last years of his life in Berlin.

family

The Protestant Walter zur Nieden married Ella Wilhelmine Luise, born on May 23, 1901 in Rheydt . Schött (born on November 12, 1879 in Rheydt), daughter of the Kommerzienrat Emil Schött and Ellen Maria Lovisa, b. Eneström. Their daughter Ellen was born in 1902 and their son Herbert in 1903. To Nieden was in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel buried .

The long-time Gelsenkirchen District Administrator Alfred zur Nieden was his older brother.

literature

  • Klaus Otto Nass : A Prussian district administrator in monarchy, democracy and dictatorship. Life memories of Walter zur Nieden. BWV-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8305-1119-9 .
  • 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. 655 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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 .
  2. ↑ http://www.afz.lvr.de/media/archive_im_rheinland/archiv_des_lvr/Abenkenliste.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Nieden, Walter to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nieden, Paul Felix Walter zur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1937
Place of death Berlin