Willi Plautz

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Willi Hans Alfred Plautz (born January 21, 1895 in Thale ; † May 3, 1978 ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Plautz, who described himself as a believer in God , was an engineer by training. On April 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . Membership was suspended from 1938. He was the owner of various companies. He ran his business from an office in the Chilehaus . At the beginning of 1949 he - together with others - offered Spanish agencies in a letter to the Spanish Consulate General to deliver one gram of radium for a total of 720,000 DM. The hazardous material should be melted in glass tubes and delivered in gamma-ray-proof lead packaging. It is not known whether the deal actually took place.

Plautz was politically active in the CDU and in 1948 was chairman of the Eppendorf / Hoheluft-Ost branch . In the state elections in 1949 he was elected to the Hamburg state parliament for the electoral alliance Father City Bund Hamburg , in which the CDU Hamburg participated. On the same day he was in the district committee Hamburg-Nord selected. On April 23, 1952, the Oberfinanzdirektion Hamburg applied for the suspension of Plautz's immunity in order to be able to carry out criminal tax proceedings against him on account of allegations from 1948 and 1949. Plautz agreed to the lifting of his immunity and the committee of the Hamburg citizenship's rules of procedure unanimously agreed on June 17, 1952. But Plautz also encountered more recent financial difficulties: on July 9, 1952, a default judgment of 10,000 DM plus interest was issued against his property company Convent-Block mbH . On July 31, 1952, the district court of Hamburg imposed compulsory detention on him to take the oath of disclosure . In addition, the Eichenstrasse GmbH residential community , which he had run until July 25, 1952, became insolvent. Finally, there were several criminal charges against him for forgery and fraud . Against this background, the CDU parliamentary group chairman Erik Blumenfeld and three of his group colleagues applied for Plautz to be excluded from citizenship under Article 13, Paragraph 2, No. 1 of the Constitution of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , which allows for exclusion if a member of parliament abuses his office to gain personal advantages for yourself or others. At the same time, they applied for a committee of inquiry to be set up to examine the allegations . This approach has to be seen in view of the citizenship elections taking place in the following year , with the exclusion of Plautz the CDU wanted to avoid a loss of image and a risk to its economic competence, which it could have suffered from the private bankruptcy of one of its MPs. The other parties participated in the investigation committee, but did not support the CDU in terms of content. The committee chairman Erwin Jacobi from the German party regretted the exclusion proposal, his deputy Joachim Kleist ( SPD ) drew attention to the danger that the courts and the committee could come to different results, and Hans-Harder Biermann-Ratjen ( FDP ) recommended Plautz, who voluntarily gave back his mandate, saw no need to withdraw the mandate. The committee ended its activities at the second meeting on October 10, 1952. Plautz then resigned his mandate in the Hamburg-North district committee, but remained a non-attached member of the citizenship until the end of the 1953 electoral term - the CDU parliamentary group had him on Excluded September 9, 1952. Then he had joined the “National Solidarity Germany” of the former state chairman of the German party , Rudi Conventz , which, however, failed in the 1953 mayor election with 0.3% of the vote. On June 3, 1953, shortly before the end of the electoral term, his immunity was again lifted.

Due to the events at the Wohngemeinschaft Eichenstrasse GmbH , he was sentenced on May 15, 1956 for violating the GmbH law by a major criminal chamber of the Hamburg Regional Court to one year in prison and a fine of 900 DM. On May 7, 1956, he was arrested in the courtroom because of the risk of blackout .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plautz, Willi . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Pabst to Pytlik] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 945 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  2. ^ A b c d Jürgen Plöhn : Inquiry committees of the state parliaments as instruments of politics. Social science studies, volume 26, Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1991, page 151 ff., ISBN 978-3-8100-0937-1 .
  3. ↑ a b Birgit Aschmann : "Faithful friends ...?". West Germany and Spain 1945–1963. HMRG supplements, volume 34. Dissertation at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1998, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, page 103, ISBN 3-515-07579-8 .
  4. ^ "MPs excluded" in: Hamburger Abendblatt of September 10, 1952, accessed on September 5, 1958.
  5. ^ "Night baking and perjury" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 3, 1953, accessed on September 5, 2018.
  6. ^ "Mysterious consortium was resigned" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 16, 1956, accessed on September 5, 2018.
  7. ^ "Plautz arrested" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of May 8, 1956, accessed on September 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Plautz, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plautz, Willi Hans Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), member of the Hamburg Parliament (1949–1953)
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Thale , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1978