Wolfgang Curilla

Wolfgang Curilla

Wolfgang Curilla (born August 14, 1942 in Hamburg ) is a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Curilla graduated from high school in Hamburg in 1962 and then studied law from 1962 to 1967. A legal clerkship followed from 1968 to 1972 . In 1972 he passed the second state examination and was admitted to the bar.

He was a member of the Hamburg citizenship from 1970 to 1997, after the state election in September 1997 he resigned.

In 1978 he was elected to the Hamburg Senate for the first time ( Senate Klose II ) and belonged to six Senates in a row until 1993 ( Senate von Dohnanyi I to IV, Senate Voscherau I and II ). Senator Curilla was initially President of the “Authority for District Affairs, Nature Conservation and Environmental Design” and built up the environmental authority ( President of the environmental authority from 1985), moved to the Justice Department in 1986 and finally to the Finance Department from 1991 to 1993 ( Senate Voscherau II ) . While he was a senator, his office as a member of parliament was suspended.

Curilla was instrumental in founding the “Stiftung Naturschutz Hamburg” and is chairman of the board of trustees of the subsequent Loki Schmidt Foundation . During his time as Senator for the Environment, the Nature Conservation Council was established for the first time in 1982, a voluntary body of experts.

In 2006 and 2011, Curilla published two extensive, source-based historical studies of the impact of the German Ordnungspolizei in occupied territories of Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust . In 2019 he published another study on the police in all occupied or annexed countries in Western Europe (e.g. Luxembourg and Alsace ).

Honors

• Alfred Toepfer Medal 2006

Works

• The German order police and the Holocaust in the Baltic States and Belarus. 1941–1944 (= part of: Anne Frank Shoah Library ). 2., through Edition. Schöningh, Paderborn [a. a.] 2006, ISBN 3-506-71787-1 (1041 pp.).
• The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939–1945 (= part of: Anne Frank Shoah Library ). Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77043-1 (1035 pages), urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201112202298 .
• The German Ordnungspolizei in Western Europe 1940–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-70169-5 (888 pages).

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Curilla  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Curilla in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Nature Conservation Council Hamburg. In: hamburg.de, accessed on January 7, 2020.
2. ↑ Award ceremony. Press release. (No longer available online.) In: fhh.hamburg.de. June 1, 2006 formerly in the original (no mementos).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ^ Jörg Magenau : Schmidt - Lenz. Story of a friendship. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-50314-2 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014110418714 , p. 109 ( preview in Google book search).