Wilhelm von Stoltzenberg

Wilhelm Freiherr von Stoltzenberg (born March 10, 1895 in Munich ; † February 6, 1955 in Duisburg ) was a German politician ( DDP / LDP ) and lawyer . He was a member of the Saxon state parliament and the People's Chamber of the GDR and president of the Thuringia Regional Administrative Court .

Life

After attending school in Leipzig, Stoltzenberg studied law and history . He passed the first state examination in law in 1917 and the second state examination in 1921. Stoltzenberg received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and graduated as a tax expert in 1925. He then became a lawyer in Leipzig.

In 1918 Stoltzenberg joined the German Democratic Party (DDP). From 1918 to 1933 he was a board member of the DDP. Stoltzenberg was also active for the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Leipzig - among other things as a speaker.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he was illegally active in politics. He was in contact with resistance groups. In 1944/1945 he was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

After the war ended in 1945, Stoltzenberg was a co-founder of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Leipzig. In 1946 he was elected chairman of the district association of the LDP Leipzig. From July 1946 to 1953 he was also a member of the central executive committee of the LDP and LDPD. On February 25, 1951, Stoltzenberg was elected deputy chairman of the LDPD regional association of Saxony in Dresden.

From 1946 to 1952 Stoltzenberg was a member of the Saxon state parliament , from 1948 to 1953 also a member of the German People's Council and the People's Chamber of the GDR . In the People's Chamber he also acted as chairman of the constitutional committee.

From 1948 he was a member of the German Economic Commission . In 1949/50 he acted as State Secretary in the Ministry for Construction of the GDR. From April 1951 to July 1953 he was President of the Regional Administrative Court of Thuringia.

In February 1953 Stoltzenberg moved to the Federal Republic of Germany .

There he worked as a lawyer in Düsseldorf before moving to Duisburg with his family in January 1954. There he got a job at the regional and district court before he died in February 1955 of the consequences of a serious lung disease that he had contracted in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Fonts

• (together with Alfred Neumann): Up-to- date questions on sales taxation (= publications by the Institute for Taxation at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management , No. 7). Industrieverlag Spaeth & Linde, Berlin 1925.
• A liberal manifesto . Markkleeberg, LDP press office. 1946.

Private

• Wilhelm von Stoltzenberg was the son of Friedrich Ludwig Maximilian Freiherr von Stoltzenberg (* 1867, † 1936) and Monika Ida Sophia Freifrau von Stoltzenberg, born. Reisgen (* 1876; † 1927).
• He was married to Anna Marie Karoline Prause (* 1881; † 1937) from 1921 to 1937.
• On March 23, 1949 he married for the second time: Hildegard ("Elly") Leipold (* 1913 Röcken; † 1979 Bobengrün).
• From an interim relationship, a son was born in 1946: Klaus-Freimut Freiherr von Stoltzenberg (born November 26, 1946 Connewitz; † July 25, 2004 Duisburg)

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 903.
• Andreas Thüsing: A new democratic beginning? Development, organization and transformation of the Saxon Ministry of Justice 1945–1950 . Dresden, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research at the Technical University 2003, ISBN 3-931648-46-X , p. 60.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carsten Voigt: Combat leagues of the workers' movement: the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the Rote Frontkampfbund in Saxony 1924–1933 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2009, pp. 227 and 232.
2. ^ Peter Joachim Lapp: The People's Chamber of the GDR . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1975, p. 199