Wilhelm Compter

Hermann Wilhelm Compter (born December 31, 1890 in Bühl (Baden) , † August 24, 1966 in Pforzheim ) was a German administrative officer and politician.

Life

Wilhelm Compter, son of a district doctor, studied law at the universities of Humboldt University in Berlin , Freiburg and Heidelberg after attending grammar school in Rastatt . In 1911 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . He took part in the First World War as an artillery officer. In 1917 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1920 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. In 1921 he passed the 2nd state examination in law. He then entered the service of the Baden interior administration. and became bailiff at the Triberg district office . In 1922 he worked for the Baden Ministry of Labor and in 1923 for the Durlach district office. In 1924 he was appointed to the government council of the Karlsruhe district office . In April 1926 he moved to the Waldshut District Office and in July of the same year to the Mannheim District Office , where he worked part-time at the Oberversicherungsamt. In 1929 he became a member of the German People's Party . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . From September 1933 to 1936 he was district administrator in Weinheim . After the Weinheim district office was dissolved, he was initially a second official at the Heidelberg district office . Since July 1938 he was district administrator for the district of Mosbach . Shortly before the end of the Second World War , on March 31, 1945, he appointed the Mosbach local politician Wilhelm Kapferer as mayor, who then hoisted the white flag over the city on April 2nd. As district administrator he was interned on the same day and remained so until July 1946 with a short interruption. After his release, he initially hired himself as an unpaid assistant to a lawyer in Mosbach . He joined the newly founded CDU . In October 1948 he was elected as an alderman and second full-time deputy to the mayor in Pforzheim. After his re-election, he retained his post until his retirement in 1964, since 1956 with the title of Second Mayor.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, 1960
• Iron Cross 2nd Class, 1916
• Hessian bravery medal

Fonts

• The forgery of documents according to § 267 RStGB with special consideration of the subjective facts , 1920.

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 210 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 35 , 830.