Wolfgang Erich

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Wolfgang Erich (born November 13, 1920 in Rethwisch (Stormarn) , † June 9, 1970 in Kiel ) was a German historian and ministerial official in Kiel.

Life

Erich spent his youth in Bornhöved as the son of a pastor . He attended the Holstenschule in Neumünster, where he graduated from high school in 1939. After serving in the Reich Labor Service , he became a soldier in the Wehrmacht . In the final phase of the African campaign he became an officer in the Armored Reconnaissance in US captivity . At that time he began distance learning at Cornell University . He took an English language course, which he completed with an interpreter test.

From 1946 to 1951 he studied history , geography , world economy , constitutional law and international law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He had been a member of the Collegium Albertinum since the winter semester 1947/48 and became a Corps student at Palaiomarchia-Masovia in 1950 . After completing the collection of materials for his doctoral thesis in 1954, he was managing director of the CDU parliamentary group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament until 1961 . He was "due to his strength of character, which sprang from his natural modesty, and his diverse knowledge, which was combined with an often amazing instinct for the realities of today and the possibilities of tomorrow, a sought-after advisor to the top in politics, government and business."

The CAU received his doctorate in 1961 as Dr. phil. In the same year he became the personal advisor to Finance Minister Hartwig Schlegelberger and joined the state government as press officer for this department. From 1963 he performed the same tasks in the Ministry of the Interior. In 1967 he became ministerial director and director of the state parliament. When he died of leukemia at the age of 49 , Federal Council President Kai-Uwe von Hassel and Prime Minister Helmut Lemke expressed their condolences . Erich left a daughter and his wife Herta geb. Voss , whom he married in 1965. He was buried next to his father in the Bornhöved cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gustav Kieseritzky: Wolfgang Erich , in: Günter Ernesti: From Collegium Albertinum to Corps Palaiomarchia-Masovia . Kiel 2000.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The American China Policy 1911–1918
  3. ↑ Herta Voss was the daughter of Friedrich Voss , the builder of the Rendsburg high bridge.
personal data
SURNAME Erich, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Rethwisch (Stormarn)
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1970
Place of death Kiel