Walther Grützner

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Emil Walther Grützner (born June 13, 1881 in Dresden ; † April 6, 1951 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German administrative lawyer and member of the SPD .

Life and work

After passing the state law examination and subsequent legal traineeship, Grützner worked in the Dresden city administration from 1909. After serving in the war from 1914 to 1916, he was appointed to the War Food Office in 1917 as a consultant . From 1917 to 1920 he was a city ​​councilor in Düsseldorf . In 1920 the Prussian state government appointed him regional president of Düsseldorf , from where he was expelled by the French occupation authorities in 1923. In 1924 he was appointed District President of Merseburg . Differences with the social democratic Prussian interior minister Albert Grzesinski led to his dismissal and transfer to the Prussian Higher Administrative Court as Senate President in 1929 . He was expelled from the SPD for “behavior that was harmful to the party”.

1934-1935 he was briefly yet as Councilor at the Regional Councils in Cologne and Stettin worked before he was dismissed by the Nazis from the civil service. He was imprisoned between 1943 and 1945. After the liberation, from July 1947 to October 1947, Grützner was chairman of the senate of an appeal chamber for denazification in Frankfurt am Main .

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Individual evidence

  1. Birth register StA Dresden I, No. 1029/1881
  2. Death register StA Bad Godesberg, No. 152/1951