Wilhelm von Nathusius (Ministerial Official)

Wilhelm Gottlob Engelhard von Nathusius (born June 29, 1893 in Rheinsberg ; † August 4, 1952 in Bonn ) was a mayor in Wiesbaden and a senior German civil servant in the post-war period.

Childhood and youth

Wilhelm von Nathusius was the only son of Heinrich von Nathusius (1858–1933), a royal Prussian forest official. His mother was Marie, b. von Mandelsloh (1859–1933), daughter of William von Mandelsloh, the owner of a manor in Düendorf. Nathusius had three older sisters. A brother of his father was the major general a. D. Wilhelm von Nathusius , and his grandfather was the well-known oologist Wilhelm von Nathusius . He grew up in Rheinsberg (until 1898) and later in Klein Wasserburg . From 1902 until his Abitur in 1912 he attended the humanistic grammar school in Wernigerode .

Studies and war

After graduating from high school, he studied law ( law and political science ) at the universities in Geneva , Freiburg, Halle , Munich and Berlin . In 1915 Nathusius became a court trainee in Naumburg (Saale) . From March 1915 to November 1918 he was in the First World War as a lieutenant of the reserve used. In 1921 he passed the exam to become an assessor .

Professional career

Nathusius aspired to a career as an official. Since he became a member of the SPD in the Weimar Republic and remained so after the Nazis came to power , this career was forcibly interrupted from 1933 to 1946.

Prussian civil servant in the Weimar Republic

On September 29, 1921, Nathusius was hired in the municipal department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as a government assessor and assistant. In his role, he was particularly concerned with issues relating to municipal administrative reform. In July 1924 he was appointed to the Prussian government council . From December 1924 he was a councilor in the Wiesbaden provincial government in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau as an economic and transport department head. He remained in this position until 1929, when he was district administrator in the Oberwesterwaldkreis . In 1930 he was transferred to Dinslaken on the Lower Rhine as district administrator . In 1932, the Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing appointed him to the difficult post of district administrator in the former Teltow district in Brandenburg . The political tensions in the neighboring imperial capital had a strong impact on this district. Nathusius was the district administrator in Teltow (with his official seat in downtown Berlin on Potsdamer Platz ) until March 1933.

1933-1946

Because of his membership in the SPD and declared opposition to the National Socialist rulers, the new government resigned Nathusius from his post in March 1933. He has been given temporary retirement. From then until the end of the war, he worked in the insurance industry under difficult conditions due to his negative attitude towards the Nazis. Initially as a broker and sales representative at various insurance companies, he was district director at Allianz-Versicherungs-AG in 1945 . From August 5, 1945 to March 31, 1946 he was then deputy general director at the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the Soviet occupation zone , responsible for the central administration of Berlin's transport system. In the summer of 1946 he resigned from this office (probably in connection with the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED ) and moved - like numerous other SPD members who refused to bow to the party union - to the western zone of Germany. He joined the newly founded SPD in the West.

Civil servant in the Federal Republic

On July 1, 1946 he became a Councilor for the department head in the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture appointed in Wiesbaden. In 1948, he was from Wiesbaden's city council for the first aldermen elected and Mayor of Wiesbaden.

At the beginning of 1950 he was appointed acting head of subdivision 1A (constitution and constitutional law) in the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Bonn - under the then Minister of the Interior Gustav Heinemann . Initially, Nathusius was given leave of absence from his position as mayor, but continued to receive his Wiesbaden remuneration. In April he moved to Bonn. On July 31, 1950, he was promoted to Ministerial Director . On August 7, 1950, the certificate of appointment as ministerial director was handed over; Only then did Nathusius end his civil servant relationship with the city of Wiesbaden. His letter about the resignation of his office as first alderman of the city of Wiesbaden is dated August 11, 1950. In October 1951 he was appointed ministerial director . He was now head of the Constitution and Administration Department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior under Interior Minister Robert Lehr .

Private

On May 2, 1929, Nathusius married Ida Hammacher (* 1908), the daughter of a farmer in Wiesbaden. The couple had three children. Nathusius died of leukemia in August 1952 at the age of 59 and was buried in Bonn's south cemetery .

literature

• Wilhelm of Nathusius. In: International Biographical Archive. No. 41/1952 of September 29, 1952
• Lilly von Nathusius: Wilhelm Gottlob Engelhard von Nathusius. In: Johann Gottlob Nathusius and his descendants as well as his nephew Moritz Nathusius with his descendants (unpublished family chronicle). Detmold 1964, p. 171 f.
• Prussian Ministry of the Interior (Hrsg.): Ministerialblatt for the Prussian internal administration. Issues: No. 34 of July 23, 1924, No. 8 of February 25, 1925, No. 13 of March 27, 1929, No. 33 of August 14, 1929, No. 2 of January 14, 1931, No. 24 of June 3, 1931, No. 44 of October 21, 1931, No. 9 of March 2, 1932, No. 23 of April 19, 1933 and No. 51 of October 11, 1933, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1924-1933
• Obituary in the Wiesbadener Tagblatt dated August 7, 1952
• Wiesbaden city archive , signature inventory WI / P No. 4024, personal file Wilhelm von Nathusius

Web links

• Wilhelm von Nathusius in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Nathusius, Wilhelm Gottlob Engelhard von. Hessian biography. (As of January 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to Nathusius (1840, 1861), IV. Line (Königsborn), 1) Wilhelm Gottlob Engelhard . In: Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume 57 of the complete series, Noble Houses, Series B, Volume XI, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1974, p. 319
2. ↑ according to obituary, see bibliography.
3. ↑ according to Munzinger , see bibliography.
4. ^ According to Friedrich Glum : Between Science, Economy and Politics. H. Bouvier, Bonn 1964, p. 15 ( digitized version )
5. ↑ appointment proposal in B 134/3355 on 23 October 1951
6. ↑ Nathusius was particularly interested in constitutional issues , according to Frankfurter Hefte. Volume 11, Issues 7–12, Neue Verlags-Gesellschaft der Frankfurter Hefte, 1956, p. 675 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ according to chronicle. In: The time . No. 33 of August 14, 1952
8. ↑ according to Wolfgang Ollrog (editor): Johann Christoph Gatterer, the founder of scientific genealogy. In: Archives for kin research and all related areas with practical research assistance. Volume 47, Issue 81/82, February 1981, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg, 1981, No. 3.4.6.6.4, p. 81 and No. 3.4.6.6.4.1 ff, p. 105
9. ↑ according to the announcement of death in the bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. No. 106 of August 6, 1952, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1021 ( digitized version )
10. ↑ Wilhelm von Nathusius in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)