Walther R. Seelmann-Eggebert

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Walther R. Seelmann-Eggebert (born July 22, 1880 in Berlin ; † December 31, 1962 ) was a German lawyer .

Seelmann-Eggebert family burial site

Life

Seelmann-Eggebert was the son of Wilhelm Seelmann-Eggebert and his wife Martha, geb. Sasse. Since March 27, 1920 he was with Elisabeth, geb. Forester, married. One of his sons is the well-known journalist Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert (born 1937).

Until 1927, Seelmann-Eggebert was a board member of the agricultural Pfandbriefbank AG (Roggenrentenbank) and the Prussian Pfandbriefbank.

He was a doctor of law (lawyer and notary) as well as a secret judicial council and lecturing council. In addition, he temporarily held the office of Prussian Minister of Justice.

His youngest son Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert reports that the Protestant and German national minded Walther Seelmann-Eggebert, as a Berlin notary, specialized in inheritance and fiduciary matters of noble family assets ( Fideikommisswesen ). In his office right next to the Brandenburg Gate, he drafted wills for many members of the high nobility. In particular, Walther Seelmann-Eggebert wrote the will of the deposed and abdicated former emperor Wilhelm II during his time in exile in Doorn and therefore visited Wilhelm and his second wife Hermine there. Even after Wilhelm's abdication, Wilhelm's birthday was always celebrated on January 27th in the house of Walther Seelmann-Eggebert as a special feast day in appropriate clothing (tailcoat and long dress). During the Allied air raids, the chancellery was completely destroyed along with all of the notarial documents it contained - including those from the nobility and opposition circles.

The son also reports that after the Second World War, Walther Seelmann-Eggebert initially became legal advisor of the newly founded state of Lower Saxony , or managing director of the district council, which was responsible for the formation of this state from the previous state of Hanover and the Free States of Braunschweig , Oldenburg and Schaumburg -Lip prepared. In this context, Seelmann-Eggebert initially worked as the "right hand" of the new Prime Minister Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (SPD) until Kopf and Seelmann-Eggebert, whom the left would have liked to call "Hohenzollernknecht", no longer got along. Walther Seelmann-Eggebert then settled in Hanover as a lawyer and notary.

Walther R. Seelmann-Eggebert died in 1962 at the age of 82. He found his final resting place in the Seelmann-Eggebert family grave in the Zehlendorf cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herrmann AL Degener : Wer istʹs?, 10th edition, Berlin 1935, p. 1483.
  2. ^ Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert (in collaboration with Adele Seelmann-Eggebert): In huts and palaces. Ein Reporterleben, Munich 2019, p. 20ff.
  3. ↑ In huts and palaces, p. 20
  4. ↑ In huts and palaces, p. 29
  5. ↑ In huts and palaces, p. 37ff
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 679.
personal data
SURNAME Seelmann-Eggebert, Walther R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1962