Walther Lamp'l

Walther Lamp'l (born May 10, 1891 in Hamburg , † January 4, 1933 in Altona ) was an SPD politician and Altona senator.

Life

After attending school in Hamburg, Lamp'l worked in Mexico from 1910 to 1912 as a businessman and house agent. He returned to Germany in 1913 and began to study law in Berlin , while working as a private tutor . When the First World War broke out , he was drafted and served as an officer in the air force until he was seriously wounded in December 1917.

Lamp'l was actively involved in the November Revolution in northern Germany. He joined the MSPD and became a delegate at the first Reichsrätekongress in Berlin in 1918, where he was elected to the Central Council of the German Socialist Republic . In December 1918 he was elected chairman of the soldiers' council for Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Along with Heinrich Laufenberg, he was one of the holders of actual power during the revolution. After the councils lost power, Lamp'l was appointed commander of Greater Hamburg by the Reich government in March 1919 , and then in August 1919 as Reich Commissioner for Greater Hamburg, an office that he held until November 1919. In March 1919 he was elected to the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD , of which he was a member until 1921. In the same year he also successfully completed his studies in Hamburg with a doctorate .

From August 1921 until his death, Lamp'l was a paid magistrate for the city of Altona. Along with Max Brauer , Gustav Oelsner and August Kirch, he was one of the most influential senators there. From 1921 he represented the police department, and from 1923 he also represented the port and labor authority. From 1925 to 1933 Lamp'l was a member of the provincial parliament of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein .

Honors

• In 1965 the western part of Schillerstrasse in Altona old town near Altona train station was renamed Lamp'lweg .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leo Lippmann : My life and my official activity. Memories and a contribution to the financial history of Hamburg . From the estate, ed. by Werner Jochmann (publications by the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 19), Christians, Hamburg 1964. p. 283 there is a short footnote on Lamp'l.

Fonts

• The right of the German revolution. The problem of revolutionary law in German jurisprudence, legal philosophy and jurisprudence . Hamburg 1921.

literature

• Article Lamp'l, Walther. In: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 (short version online as a biography of Walther Lamp'l . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP) ).
• Christina Lipke: Walther Lamp'l, officer. In: Olaf Matthes / Ortwin Pelc : People in the Revolution. Hamburg portraits 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1 , pp. 99-102.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Lamp'l in the catalog of the German National Library