Walther Dörr

This article deals with the administrative lawyer Walther Dörr. For information on the electrical engineer, see Walter Dörr .

Walther Hugo Dörr (born April 17, 1879 in Idar ; † June 11, 1964 in Tutzing ) was an Oldenburg lawyer and politician.

Life

family

Walther Dörr was the son of the pharmacist Hermann Richard Bernhard Dörr and his wife Pauline Wilhelmine nee Hahn. Dörr married Emma Paula Bohrer (October 9, 1883 - January 6, 1952) in Idar on November 22, 1907, the daughter of the jeweler Philipp Ernst Bohrer and Emma, ​​nee Wegner.

Career history

He attended secondary school in Oberstein and grammar school in Koblenz . From 1898 to 1902 he studied law at the universities of Bonn , Munich , Berlin and Marburg . In September 1903 he passed the first state examination and was then trainee lawyer in Oberstein, Oldenburg and Birkenfeld before he passed the second state examination in 1907. He then worked as a lawyer in Idar.

Political career

Dörr was involved early on in the political life of the city of Idar and the principality of Birkenfeld , which belonged as an exclave to the Grand Duchy and later to the Free State of Oldenburg . As a supporter of Friedrich Naumann , he was politically left-wing liberal. In the German Empire he belonged to the Progressive People's Party , in the Weimar Republic of the German Democratic Party .

In terms of local politics, he was a member of Idar's municipal council. From 1908 to 1925 he was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament .

On July 14, 1919, on the French national holiday , the incumbent district president was deposed in Birkenfeld and the Birkenfeld republic was proclaimed. Under massive pressure from the population, elections had to be held, which ended in a devastating defeat for the supporters of the Birkenfeld republic and thus sealed their fate. The state committee (formerly provincial council) elected Walther Dörr unanimously on November 7, 1919 as the new district president. The Oldenburg government confirmed him retrospectively in this office on February 14, 1920. The Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission also later agreed.

Already during the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 a new attempt at separation followed and the formation of a " Rhenish Republic ", which in the Birkenfeld part of the country was mainly carried out by strangers under the protection of the French troops who declared an intensified state of siege. The previous government officials, including Dörr, were expelled from the country on October 24, 1923. The chief magistrate in Nohfelden, Karl Nieten, took over the provisional management of the regional council . In 1924 he was allowed to return and take over his office again.

In 1932, the National Socialists received a majority in government in Oldenburg and launched a rumor campaign against the staunch democrat Dörr. Dörr was accused of embezzlement and high treason. After this was unsuccessful, he was forced into retirement in October 1932 by the Carl Röver government .

Dörr then moved to Tutzing and worked there again as a lawyer.

In 1947 he was briefly chairman of the new state association of the Democratic Party of Rhineland-Palatinate , but no longer held any offices or mandates in the state administration. Disappointed and probably also bitter, he withdrew to Tutzing, where he died at the age of 85.

literature

• Hans Friedl: Dörr, Walther Hugo. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 154–155 ( digitized version , letters C – D (PDF, 7 MB) ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Friedl: Nieten, Karl. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 520-521 ( online )