Wilhelm Ahlhorn

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Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm Ahlhorn (born November 27, 1873 in Ovelgönne , † April 16, 1968 in Delmenhorst ) was a German lawyer, president of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge and honorary president of the Oldenburg regional association of the German Red Cross .

family

Ahlhorn was the son of the provincial government of the Principality of Birkenfeld , Georg Adolf Moritz Ahlhorn (1838-1917) and his wife Louise (née von der Lippe), born. From his marriage to Anna geb. Dippe-Bettmar had the children Emma Luise (* December 12, 1903 - September 3, 1917) and Wiltrudis Ahlhorn (* April 29, 1917). Anna and Wiltrudis Ahlhorn died on February 3, 1945 in a bomb attack in Berlin. His brothers are Gustav Ahlhorn and Walther Ahlhorn .

Life

After attending the old grammar school in Oldenburg, Ahlhorn studied law at the universities of Jena and Berlin . In 1892 he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity .

In 1895 he completed the tentamen and 1900 the exam. On April 1, 1899, he was appointed as an official auditor of the Elsfleth Office , and since July 1, 1900 he was assigned to the Westerstede Office as an auxiliary official. On July 1, 1900, he was appointed second unskilled worker and secretary to the government of the Principality of Lübeck, which belongs to Oldenburg, in Eutin . From November 1, 1900 until further notice he was entrusted with the business of the public prosecutor at the public prosecutor's office in Eutin. On May 1, 1901, he was appointed the first unskilled laborer in the government in Eutin and at the same time relieved of the duties of the public prosecutor for the Principality of Lübeck. On April 1, 1901, he was appointed government assessor . On April 1, 1905 he was appointed auxiliary officers during office Vechta and on September 1, 1908. Amtshauptmann the Office Rüstringen appointed. On January 1, 1914, he was transferred to the Elsfleth office as governor . On January 15, 1921, the senior government councilor was appointed Oldenburg representative to the Reichsrat in Berlin.

On September 1, 1924, Ahlhorn was appointed the first deputy authorized representative at the Reichsrat with the addition of the title Staatsrat .

End of career in the time of National Socialism

About the since 1932 reigning Oldenburg Prime Minister and NSDAP - Head of Gaus Weser-Ems Carl Röver he expressed later, in 1958 in his family memories: He "was stupid, ignorant, conceited, (...) he was fanatical, credulous , but with a certain good-naturedness and its own sense of humor, which, however, was limited by the limits of party doctrine. " Despite the initial trust of Röver, Ahlhorn was given leave of absence by the National Socialists on April 6, 1933 as politically unreliable and on April 8, 1933 "by an injunction in an extremely hurtful form on May 1 (1933)". A later possible appointment as district administrator in the Wesermarsch failed due to resistance from Carl Röver .

After the beginning of the temporary retirement in the period from October 1, 1933 to April 30, 1934, he went to Rome for a private holiday.

After the Second World War , he was classified in the denazification process in the category V (exonerated).

Activities for the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge

Since 1938, Ahlhorn, together with Siegfried Emmo Eulen, headed the Federal Office of the German War Graves Commission (VDK) . In connection with this activity, Ahlhorn spent time abroad in Italy (Easter-May 1939 and June 1943), France (autumn 1941) and Russia (September 1942) to hold talks with the German authorities there about the creation and maintenance of war graves .

In the post-war period, Ahlhorn was president of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge from 1946 to 1949, of which he became honorary president in 1949. He was responsible for rebuilding the Volksbund, initially from Oldenburg . In May 1948 the Volksbund then moved to Nienburg / Weser . As honorary president of the VDK, he gave the honorary speech on March 5, 1950 at a ceremony of the VDK in the plenary hall of the Bundeshaus in Bonn.

Activities for the German Red Cross

Ahlhorn had been a member of the German Red Cross since 1908 . At the suggestion of the Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Oldenburg August Wegmann and with the support of Prime Minister Theodor Tantzen , he was appointed provisional President of the "New German Red Cross, State Office Oldenburg" (NDRK) on August 11, 1945 by the military government under Col. Dillon . Pastor A. Ehlers was appointed as his deputy. There was apparently no disagreement with the military government about his provisional administration. However, she told the State Ministry “although the military government does not wish to interfere in the general management of the NDRK, it is of the opinion that the appointment of a younger and more energetic man as President of the NDRK in the state of Oldenburg will benefit this welfare organization would. ”Neither the State Ministry nor the DRK saw themselves asked to even begin to comply with this demand of the military government. It was only recommended that a managing director should take care of the extensive activities of the NDRK.

On November 26, 1946, the Oldenburg regional association of the German Red Cross was re-established. Ahlhorn was elected its first president; he stayed there until 1952 when he voluntarily resigned prematurely in order to “hand over the management of the regional association of the Red Cross to younger hands”. In 1958 he became its honorary president. As president of the DRK regional association, he represented this and the DRK regional association in Braunschweig at the founding meeting of the German Red Cross in Koblenz in 1950. In addition to his work as DRK president, he also acted from 1946 to 1949 as president of the DRK-Landeshilfe (Association of War Disabled, War Widows and Orphans).

further activities

In 1948 Ahlhorn was a co-founder, board member and president of the Oldenburg State Federation, which advocated restoring the independence of the former state of Oldenburg.

Honor

In 1981 Ahlhorn was honored in Oldenburg by naming the Wilhelm-Ahlhorn-Weg.

Awards

literature

  • News for town and country: State Councilor Ahlhorn on leave . 2nd Supplement, No. 97, April 8, 1933
  • Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: In memoriam Wilhelm Ahlhorn . Volume 44, No. 6, June 1968, page 83
  • Gerhard Stalling Verlag: The Oldenburg House Calendar or House Friend to the year 1969 . Oldenburg 1969, page 34
  • DRK-Landesverband Oldenburg [Hrsg.]: 150 years - For the love of people. German Red Cross Regional Association Oldenburg. Oldenburg 2014 ( PDF file; 1.4 MB )
  • Tönnies, Ferdinand [Vorr.]: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft: the handbook of personalities in words and pictures . Microfiche edition 1995
  • Nistal, Matthias [Hrsg.]: Staatsdienerverzeichnis 1859 - 1930: the higher civil servants of the Grand Duchy and Free State of Oldenburg with the parts of Oldenburg, Lübeck and Birkenfeld . Oldenburg 1995, page 19
  • Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 20 ( PDF; 4.6 MB ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 9.
  • Willi Kammerer, Dr. Martin Dodenhoeft (Red.): Service to people - service to peace . Kassel 2009 ( PDF; 22 MB )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biographical manual on the history of the State of Oldenburg. Oldenburg 1992, p. 20.
  2. ↑ a b c d Family Memories (1958)
  3. ^ Reichs Handbuch Volume 1, 1930
  4. ↑ a b Public servants directory 1859-1930 (1994), p. 19
  5. ↑ 40 Years of the German War Graves Commission, Kassel, 1959
  6. ↑ a b Archive of the DRK regional association Oldenburg eV
  7. ↑ Dieter Riesenberger: The German Red Cross - A History 1864-1990 , Paderborn 2002, page 397
  8. ↑ Investigation of the street names of the city of Oldenburg , page 8, accessed on May 8, 2017
  9. ↑ Wittig, Manfred: "Death has erased all differences". In: Unhappy the country that needs heroes: Suffering and dying in the war memorials of the First and Second World Wars, Marburg 1990, page 92
  10. ↑ Federal Gazette 2/1954
  11. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung, November 28, 1953
  12. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung, April 19, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Ahlhorn, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahlhorn, Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Ovelgönne
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1968
Place of death Delmenhorst