Werner Krause (politician, 1900)

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Werner Krause (* October 8, 1900 - May 15, 1971 ) was a German local politician . From 1938 to 1945 he was Lord Mayor of Hildesheim .

Life

Krause studied law in Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1925 (Dr. jur.) . Then he was a trainee lawyer in Celle and then settled as a lawyer in Hanover . In 1930 Krause, who was already active in a party group in Göttingen, joined the NSDAP . In Hanover he advised the party as a lawyer and was active in local politics. In 1937, the committed National Socialist was established as mayor and chief of police in Hildesheim and specifically as the successor to the national liberal mayor Ernst Ehrlicher .

On January 6, 1938, Krause was sworn in as Lord Mayor by the President of the Hanover Province and Chief of Staff of the SA Viktor Lutze .

The party's hope that Krause would nazify the city administration was not fulfilled. Instead, he continued the style of his predecessor and occasionally even publicly opposed the instructions of the NSDAP. The district president and SS-Oberführer Kurt Binding therefore asked him to resign in early 1943. Krause refused. Since there was no legal means of forcibly removing him from his post, Krause's official absence was used to forbid him to conduct official business on July 29, 1943 under Section 6 of the German Civil Service Act of 1937 and to put him on leave. In nominal terms, he remained in office. Krause was deported to the military administration , while Georg Schrader, NSDAP and SS member, took over the official business . Krause was only officially released by the Allied military government in June 1945.

In 1947 Krause applied for his reinstatement as Lord Mayor and listed numerous exonerating witnesses, including the artistic director of the Hildesheim city theater William Büller and the head of the surgical department of the city ​​hospital Ernst König, albeit in vain. After that he practiced as a lawyer again.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hildesheim City Archives, Best. 803, No. 139.
  2. ↑ Werner Krause: Can the healing of a property sale contract that is invalid due to a lack of form according to § 313 sentence 1 BGB still be prevented after it has been released? Göttingen, Univ. Diss., 1925.
  3. ↑ Also on the following s. Article Hildesheim under National Socialism - aspects of the city history of the LwG (learning workshop history), historical seminar of the University of Hanover (see web links).
  4. ↑ s. German Civil Service Act v. January 26, 1937.
predecessor Office successor
Seriously honest Mayor and Lord Mayor of Hildesheim
1938–1945 		Seriously honest
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician, Lord Mayor of Hildesheim (1938–1945)
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1900
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1971