Wilhelm Glasses (District Administrator)

Wilhelm Woldemar glasses (born May 7, 1874 in Gera ; † January 2, 1951 in Neuss ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Born as the son of a weaving director, after attending the secondary school in Gera, Gläser studied economics in Leipzig , graduated from the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Magdeburg in 1896 and then studied law in Leipzig and Jena . During his studies he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity of Dresden in 1894 . After completing his studies, he went through numerous positions, for example, he worked as a public prosecutor at the Gotha District Court in 1903 , then as an assessor and salaried district administrator in the Waltershausen district office until 1909 , and subsequently as a public prosecutor at the Gotha public prosecutor's office until 1914 . From 1909 to 1914 he was district chairman of the National Liberal State Association for the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha and on the board of the Association for Combating Social Democracy . After he became provisional district administrator in Waltershausen in 1914 , he took over the office of district administrator from 1916 to 1922 full-time. From 1922 to 1924 he was a waiting officer and then took over the provisional administration of the Eisenach district directorate , where he then worked as district director until 1926 as district administrator . In 1933 he became a member of the SA , in which he was Rottenführer . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP; in the same year he was retired at his own request. Until 1945 he worked as a civil servant for road and rail construction in Eisenach and in the meantime in Weimar . In 1945 he joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In the same year he was dismissed as a clerk due to his SA and NSDAP membership.

Honors

• 1915: Knight's Cross 2nd class
• 1942: War Merit Cross 2nd Class

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 129-130.