Wolf Dietrich von Kottwitz

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Wolf Dietrich von Kottwitz , full name Wolf Dietrich Kurt Rudolf Erdmann von Kottwitz , (born November 2, 1889 in Dresden , † after 1933) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

He was the second child of the Prussian major a. D. Rudolf von Kottwitz (1841–1898) and his wife Ella, b. Louis (* 1856). Von Kottwitz attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin and studied law in Göttingen , Munich and Kiel . After passing the state examination , subsequent legal traineeship , including at the Luckenwalde District Court , as well as participating in the war as a reserve officer in the Hussar Regiment "von Zieten" (Brandenburgisches) No. 3 in Rathenow, Wolf Dietrich von Kottwitz worked from 1916 as a government assistant and from 1920 to 1926 as deputy state director from Waldeck . In 1926 he was transferred to the Dusseldorf police headquarters as a member of the government and police department .

In the course of the deposition of the democratic Prussian state government Braun-Severing ( Preussenschlag ), the Papen government installed him in 1932 as the successor to the Social Democrat Adolf Hohenstein as police president of Kassel . In 1933, he was by the Nazis deposed and as a senior civil servant and conductor on Policing to the regional council Potsdam added.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses . Part 1. Gotha 1904, p.  459 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. Theodor von Heppe , Winfried Speitkamp (editor and editor): Municipal constitution in Kurhessen: a work by Kassel government trainee Theodor von Heppe from 1826 (=  sources and research on Hessian history . Volume  69 ). Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse, 1987, ISBN 3-88443-158-7 , p. 157 ( limited preview in Google Book search).