Wolf of Wrangel

Wolf Freiherr von Wrangel (born October 21, 1897 in Waldburg ; † November 18, 1987 in Göttingen ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

After Wrangel took part in the First World War as a reserve officer , he began to study law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In February 1919 he became active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . As an inactive , he moved to the local Albertus University in Königsberg . After his legal traineeship, he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . After the assessor examination, he became district administrator of the Mohrungen district in 1932 (the year of the Prussian strike ) . When he refused to join the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1935 , he had to resign. Until 1939 he worked for the government in Frankfurt (Oder) and later for the Upper Presidium of the Province of Silesia in Breslau . After the German invasion of Poland, he acted as "Reich Defense Decernet" and "Representative for resettlement" at the High Presidium and was a member of a resettlement working group established in November 1939.

In the Second World War he served as a captain in the army . Seriously wounded several times, he was employed as a senior war administrator in occupied northern France. From 1943 to 1945 he was goods director of the Schaffgotsch in Bad Warmbrunn . The day after the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt , he was arrested on suspicion of complicity, but was soon released.

After the expulsion he came to Lower Saxony with his family in 1945 . The British military government appointed him in 1946 as chief district director in the district of Münden . For a while he worked as a freelancer. From 1952 to 1956 he was a consultant at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Bonn . By way of reparation , he was subsequently appointed government vice- president.

With Götz von Selle , Walther Hubatsch and Friedrich Hoffmann , he was one of the founders of the Göttingen working group . He created the "East Prussia Badge " with the elk shovel . He retired in Todtnauberg and Göttingen, where he died shortly after his 90th birthday.

Works

Sour cream with gluten. Jokes and stories from the georgine. Würzburg 1961. GoogleBooks
The district of Mohrungen. Würzburg 1967. GoogleBooks
Germany in a divided Europe. Leer 1970. GoogleBooks

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142/651.
↑ Dissertation: About the non-contractual liability when providing information .
^ Gerhard Wolf: Ideology and Rationality. National Socialist Germanization Policy in Poland (= studies on the history of violence in the 20th century ). Hamburg 2012, p. 40-141 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wrangel, Wolf of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wrangel-Waldburg, Wolf von; Wrangel, Wolf Carl Friedrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative lawyer, district administrator in Mohrungen, senior district director in Hann. Münden
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Forest castle
DATE OF DEATH	November 18, 1987
Place of death	Goettingen

[WG-1] Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006

[2] Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142/651.

[3] Dissertation: About the non-contractual liability when providing information .

[4] Gerhard Wolf: Ideology and Rationality. National Socialist Germanization Policy in Poland (= studies on the history of violence in the 20th century ). Hamburg 2012, p. 40-141 .