Wilhelm Kutscher

Wilhelm Kutscher

Wilhelm Hermann Kutscher (born December 26, 1876 in Wobesde , Province of Pomerania , † June 13, 1962 in Göttingen ) was a German administrative officer.

family

Wilhelm Kutscher was a son of the manor owner Ernst Kutscher on Wobesde and his wife Anna nee. Do. In 1907 he married Adelheid Pagenstecher, a daughter of Major General a. D. Rudolf Pagenstecher in Wiesbaden and his wife Elisabeth born. to Nedden.

Life

Kutscher attended high school in Stolp , where he passed his school leaving examination in 1894. He began to study law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Royal University of Greifswald . He passed the legal traineeship in Greifswald in 1897 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He switched from the administration of justice to the internal administration of Prussia and came to Trier in 1901 as a government trainee. In 1898/99 he served as a one-year volunteer in Stolp. From 1903 he was employed as a government assessor in Perleberg, Schlawe, Köslin and Neustettin. From 1907 to 1914 he worked in the Lauenburg i. Pom. as district administrator . He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania from 1912 to 1915. From 1914 to 1919 he was a lecturer in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. During the First World War, he did a lot in the reconstruction of the East Prussian cities and municipalities that were affected by the Russian invasion in 1914, working closely with the local chief president Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe . At the instigation of the Social Democratic Prussian Interior Minister Wolfgang Heine , he was transferred to the Hildesheim administrative district in 1919 as President of the Government . In 1922 he had to leave the civil service because of his conservative attitude and was transferred to temporary retirement, and in 1924 to final retirement.

From 1923 to 1932 he was a managing director of the German Agriculture Council . When the Braun III cabinet was deposed in the Prussian strike in 1932 , the Papen cabinet appointed him as the successor to Ernst Siehr as President of the Province of East Prussia . As early as the summer of 1933 he had to relinquish this post to the NSDAP Gauleiter Erich Koch . He then worked as a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Rentenbank and a member of the Pomeranian Provincial Council. He remained a member of the Prussian State Council until 1945 . He was a member of the German National People's Party .

literature

• Coachman, Wilhelm . In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , pp. 1050-1051.
• Suevia-Tübingen 1831-1931 , Vol. 2: Members, Tübingen 1931, p. 173 (No. 511)

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Kutscher in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910 197 /665
2. ↑ Dissertation: The position of Article X §§ 3 and 4 of the German-Guatemalan Treaty of September 20, 1887 on the system of acquisition and loss of German nationality and nationality .
3. ^ Theodor Wengler : The Pomeranian Provincial Association. Directory of the members of the provincial assembly. Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V, Volume 44. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20109-8 , pp. 123f.