Willy Klitzing

Wilhelm "Willy" Klitzing (born January 2, 1886 in Dargun ; † January 26, 1947 in the special camp Fünfeichen ) was a German civil servant and honorary member of the People's Court .

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From 1919 to 1933 Klitzing was an administrative employee in the Mecklenburg State Accounting Office in Schwerin .

On June 4, 1927, Klitzing joined the NSDAP ( membership number 62,795). In the following years he participated in the founding of the NSDAP local group in Schwerin. From 1929 to 1935 he was chairman of the committee of inquiry of the committee of inquiry and arbitration and the district court Mecklenburg-Lübeck.

In January 1933, Klitzing was appointed personal advisor to Prime Minister Walter Granzow . After he had been promoted to government councilor in May 1933 , he received the post of personal assistant and adjutant to the Reich governor of Mecklenburg-Lübeck, Friedrich Hildebrandt, in June 1933 . In this position he was finally appointed head of Hildebrandt's office and successively promoted to senior government councilor in April 1936 and to government director in November 1942. As a representative of the civil service, Klitzing was also an honorary member of the People's Court from 1934 to probably 1938 .

At the end of the war, Kritzing was interned in the Soviet Union , where he died in the spring of 1947.

literature

Mecklenburg in World War II. The meetings of Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the NS leadership bodies of Gau Mecklenburg 1939–1945. An edition of the meeting minutes. On behalf of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, introduced and commented by Michael Buddrus with the assistance of Sigrid Fritzlar and Karsten Schröder, Bremen 2009, v. a. P. 1032.