Wilhelm Weirauch

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Wilhelm Weirauch (born November 20, 1876 Limburg an der Lahn , † June 20, 1945 in the Soviet special camp Ketschendorf ) was a German lawyer and permanent deputy to the general director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Professional background

During his studies in 1895 he became a member of the Rhenania Halle fraternity . Weirauch worked as a court trainee from 1898 until his doctorate in 1900 . His doctoral thesis, which he submitted to the Friedrichs University in Halle-Wittenberg , was entitled: The Railway Unit in Prussian Law . In 1903 he worked as a court assessor, a position he held until he moved to the state railway administration in 1905. After a year he was promoted to government assessor , in 1910 he was appointed government councilor and member of the railway departments in Breslau , Erfurt , Kattowitz and Altona . In 1919 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Public Works as a lecturing privy councilor and was entrusted with the processing of wage and promotion matters. From April 1, 1924, he headed the Reich Railway Directorate in Berlin and was appointed Director of the Reich Railway on July 23, 1925. In this capacity, Weirauch headed the HR department at the headquarters. In June 1926 he became a permanent deputy general director and board member of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft and thus a representative of general director Julius Dorpmüller .

On February 27, 1933, the Faculty of Economics at Frankfurt University awarded Weirauch an honorary doctorate . Before the Third Reich, Weirauch was Deputy Director General of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and headed the personnel department. In addition, he was involved in a large number of supervisory boards of other companies. Due to his proximity to the Center Party and as an opponent of the regime - membership in the NSDAP has not been proven - he had to vacate his office on June 25, 1933 in favor of the National Socialist railway director Wilhelm Kleinmann . Together with his colleague, the press officer of the Reichsbahn, Hans Baumann, he was taken over into the main examination office of the Reichsbahn.

During the collapse, Weirauch took over the management of the Reichsbahn in Berlin as State Secretary in May 1945.

He was then abducted by the Red Army to the Ketschendorf special camp near Fürstenwalde (Spree).

Weirauchstrasse

Weirauchstrasse , laid out in 1953 in the Herrenhausen district of Hanover , has since honored the Deputy General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn with its name.

Publications

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 238-239.
  • Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries . 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition, self-published by the Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Helmut Zimmermann : Weirauchstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 261
  2. ^ City of Hanover: Urban culture of remembrance "Scientific consideration of eponymous personalities" - Status: September 29, 2015. City of Hanover, September 29, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Lothar Gall, Manfred Pohl: The Reichsbahn and the Jews . MArixverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-254-1 , p. 445 .
  4. ^ Alfred B. Gottwaldt : The railroad in Germany: from the beginnings to the present . CH Beck, 1999, ISBN 3-406-45334-1 , pp. 171 .


personal data
SURNAME Weirauch, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and general director of the Reichsbahn
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1945
Place of death at poses