Wolf of Westarp

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Wolf Graf von Westarp (born July 9, 1910 in Hamburg , † April 20, 1982 in Dülmen ) was a German politician ( SRP ). He was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Westarp was born the son of a Hamburg writer. A cousin of his father was Kuno Graf von Westarp . From 1916 to 1923 he was tutored by a private tutor . From 1923 to 1926 an agricultural school followed, then a Protestant pedagogical college. From 1932 to 1935 he studied with interruptions in Munich , Berlin and London . From May 3, 1932 to April 1, 1933, he did a traineeship at the Augsburger Zeitung . T. as head of department, first as a foreign reporter for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (1936), later for the Kötherische Zeitung , the Hannoversches Tageblatt (1938), Hannoverscher Kurier (1941–1942) since September 1944 he was unemployed. In June and July 1938 he was deputy chief editor at the Köthener and Leipzig Horst Weber publishing houses .

From March 1931 to March 1932 he was a member of the NS student union, and from 1933 to 1937 he was a member of the General SS . In addition, he belonged to the Reich Press Chamber from November 1933 to April 1945 and from March 1935 to April 1945 of the German Hunters' Association.

He returned from the Second World War severely disabled because he lost an arm there.

In his denazification questionnaire of July 11, 1946, Westarp gave false information about the length of his SS membership, saying that he had resigned in 1934. The review of his case by the Berlin Document Center led to an investigation. On August 17, 1949, the Hanover Military Court sentenced him to a fine of 100 marks. In 1949, alongside Fritz Dorls and Otto Ernst Remer, he was co-founder and board member of the Socialist Reich Party (SRP), for which he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in the second electoral term. He was chairman of the SRP parliamentary group.

At the beginning of September 1951, Westarp asked DGB chairman Christian Fette to withdraw the claim that Westarp had negotiated with Communist Party officials because of an alliance against the DGB . On behalf of the party leadership, Westarp announced in early April 1952 that the party was ready to send representatives to the GDR to prepare for all-German elections . After differences with the other chairmen of the SRP, Dorls and Remer, in August 1952, mainly because of the beginning of the ban proceedings against the SRP, Westarp resigned from his party positions on August 12, 1952. Four days later he was out of the SRP excluded . He was a non-attached member of the state parliament until September 3, 1952 . After he moved out, he was replaced by Johann Flegel , who left after two weeks because of the SRP ban.

literature

  • Martin Will: Ephoral Constitution. The party ban of the right-wing extremist SRP from 1952, Thomas Dehlers Rosenburg and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-155893-1 (biography of Westarp on p. 99 ff.).
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 404-405.
  • Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of later members of the Lower Saxony state parliament: Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Hanover 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1952 from August 25, 1952 on munzinger.de
personal data
SURNAME Westarp, wolf of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westarp, Wolf Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SRP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1982
Place of death Dülmen