Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff

Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff (born April 22, 1902 in Naumburg , † February 16, 1986 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer, politician of the FDP and Bremen senator.

biography

Nolting-Hauff's parents moved to Bremen in 1910. He graduated from the old grammar school in Bremen . He then studied law and economics as well as literature at Heidelberg University and Kiel University . He obtained his doctorate in 1924. jur. and then worked as a lawyer. In 1934 he was expelled from the bar on racial grounds. He now worked as an in-house counsel at Kaffee HAG in Bremen.

From October 1944, during the Second World War , he was drafted into the Todt Organization , a militarily organized construction team, as part of a “Sonderaktion J” as a “Jewish Mixed Race 1st Degree (IMI)” . At first he was deployed in a labor camp near Farge to build the oil bunker, then in track construction work in a forced labor camp near Duingen . He also wrote the book IMI's, Chronicle of a banishment (Bremen 1946). Nolting-Hauff writes about the book title (p. 9): “The legally sanctioned swear word of the first degree Jewish mongrel , which was abbreviated in the files of the Gestapo and the other authorities in JMI concerned with us, we later have similar in our exile camp like the natural French king's son Dunois of Orleans once called Bastard , made our name of honor and proudly called us Imis . "

After the Second World War, Nolting-Hauff was appointed Senator for Finance in Bremen on June 6, 1945 by the American occupation authorities . He held this office under Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen (SPD) until April 22, 1962. During this time he also made outstanding contributions to the reconstruction of Bremen, especially the ports. The initially non-party senator joined the FDP around 1951. He exercised his senatorial office on a voluntary basis until May 9, 1962. His successor as senator was Johann Diedrich Noltenius (FDP).

He was also a board member of Kaffee HAG. In 1974 he became chairman of the supervisory board of Kaffee HAG.

Honors

• The Senator-Nolting-Hauff-Strasse in Strom was named after him.
• The Nolting Hauff Foundation for the Promotion of Science was named after him.

See also

• List of Bremen Senators , List of Finance Senators of Bremen
• Senate Vagts , Senate Kaisen I , Senate Kaisen II , Senate Kaisen III , Senate Kaisen IV , Senate Kaisen V , Senate Kaisen VI

Works

• "IMI'S". Chronicle of an exile . Friedrich Trüjen Verlag, Bremen 1946
• Self-deprived. Moriskos. (Two dramas) . Dorn Verlag, Bremen 1948
• Ariadne. (Drama) . Dorn Verlag, Bremen 1949 (under the pseudonym Ernst Barnewold )
• Promethids. (Drama) . Dorn Verlag, Bremen 1950
• Recovery of the financial constitution of the German Federal Republic . Bremen 1953. (With Johann Diedrich Noltenius , his successor as Senator for Finance)
• Adventurer of freedom . Friedrich Trüjen Verlag, Bremen 1965
• Behind nothing . Friedrich Trüjen Verlag, Bremen 1966
• Innovator . 1967
• Seeker for perfection . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1974

literature

• Wittheit zu Bremen (ed.), Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff - Senator for the finances of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 1945–1962 . Verlag Friedrich Röver, Bremen 1972, ISBN 3876810248

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Spiegel" article about the world premiere of "Promethiden" with information about Nolting-Hauff's life and work