Werner Kalmus

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Werner Kalmus (born February 19, 1892 in Liebstadt , Mohrungen district ; † November 5, 1971 in Husum ) was a German administrative lawyer and district administrator.

Life

Kalmus was the son of the gynecologist Gustav Kalmus and his wife Anna geb. Bowien . After graduating from high school in Strasburg an der Drewenz , he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University from 1912 . On February 19, 1913, he was reciprocated in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . After the outbreak of World War I , Kalmus interrupted his studies and joined the German army as a volunteer . Discharged from the army in 1918 with the rank of lieutenant , he continued his studies after the war. In 1920 he entered the civil service as a trainee lawyer. In 1922 he passed the exam as a government assessor . First, he worked for the government in Szczecin worked and from 1928 as Councilor in the administrative district of Olsztyn . At the end of 1933 he was the representative of the police chief in Flensburg , until August 31, 1935 chief police officer in the government in Schleswig and then representative of the police chief in Potsdam . At the end of June 1936 he was employed as a deputy district administrator in the Husum district and officially appointed as district administrator there in June 1937.

Kalmus belonged to the German People's Party from 1918 to 1931 and from the beginning of August 1932 to the NSDAP ( membership number 1.409.821). During the Nazi era he became a member of the National Socialist Motorist Corps , in which he was senior squad leader at Motorstandarte 27 in Potsdam. After the outbreak of the Second World War , Kalmus was seconded to the Lublin District of the General Government from the end of October 1939 as a district chief in Chełm . From the beginning of March 1940 until the end of the war he was district administrator in the Prenzlau district . He received the War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd class.

After the war ended, Kalmus was interned in the British from August 1945 to March 1947 . His wife Lise-Lott had fled to Husum with their four children. He later worked as an insurance agent. Nothing is known about its denazification . He lived as a district administrator a. D. in Husum and was elected to the district council of the district of North Friesland .

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 .
  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 (2nd unchanged edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 ).
  • Karl-Jürgen Nagel: The district of Prenzlau and its district administrators , in: Prenzlau, capital of the Uckermark 1234-1984. A bourgeois German reader. Barendorf 1984, p. 243.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 675
  2. ^ A b c d e Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 387f.
  3. ↑ Short biography in Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 483.
  4. ↑ Husum district at www.territorial.de
  5. ↑ a b Werner Kalmus , in: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , 5th edition (2002), p. 151
  6. ^ Letter from Lise-Lott Kalmus to Erwin Bowien's Circle of Friends (PDF file; 964 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Kalmus, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebstadt
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1971
Place of death Husum