Wolfgang Jaenicke

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Wolfgang Jaenicke (born October 17, 1881 in Breslau ; † April 5, 1968 in Lenggries ) was a German politician ( DStP ) and diplomat.

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The German Imperium

Wolfgang Jaenicke was born in 1881 as the son of the then mayor of the city of Wroclaw Karl Jaenicke and Bettina Asch (1857–1931). His mother came from a Jewish family. His sister Kaethe married the composer Edmund Nick . In his youth, Jaenicke attended grammar school in Breslau, where he graduated from high school in 1900. He then studied law and political science in Freiburg, Berlin and Breslau from 1900 to 1904. In 1904 he became a trainee lawyer, in 1908 a court assessor and in 1909 legal assistant at the Berlin-Lichtenberg magistrate . In 1910 he became a magistrate in Elbing . In the same year he became a city councilor in Potsdam .

After he had already been city councilor in Zeitz from 1909 to 1913 , Jaenicke, who married in 1910, was mayor of Elbing from 1913 to 1914. In 1918 he became mayor of Zeitz. In the First World War he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Excellent with swords.

Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism

In 1919 Jaenicke was appointed district president of Breslau. When the city of Breslau was occupied on March 13, 1920 by supporters of the Berlin putsch government led by Wolfgang Kapp , Jaenicke managed - unlike the President Philipp and the Police President Voigt - to avoid being arrested by the putschists because he was involved in this Stayed out of town for the day. In the following days he acted against the putschists and maintained contacts with representatives of the SPD and the trade unions as well as with the loyal sections of the Breslau civil service. After the putschists withdrew from Breslau on March 17, Jaenicke was able to officially resume office. All in all, he still held office for almost ten years, until 1930, as the district president of Wroclaw. In order to cope with the aftermath of the Kapp Putsch , Jaenicke was also given the office of government commissioner for the state of emergency over the entire province of Silesia in 1920 . In addition, from 1919 to 1926, as Reich and State Commissioner, he was responsible for carrying out the over-performance of the areas of southern Poznan and central Silesia to be ceded to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles . In addition, there was the office of State Commissioner for the Wroclaw Fair.

In the years 1928/1929 Jaenicke worked as a special representative of the imperial government in India and Burma . On June 7, 1930, Jaenicke became district president of Potsdam, and he was also responsible for managing the waterways between the Elbe and Oder. In 1933 he was dismissed from this office by the National Socialists.

Jaenicke was politically organized in the Weimar Republic in the German State Party (DStP). In the Reichstag election of September 1930 Jaenicke moved into the Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 8 (Liegnitz) as a member until the election in July 1932.

In late 1933, Jaenicke was deported to the diplomatic outpost of an adviser to the Chinese national government on administrative reforms. In China , he suggested a downsizing of the administrative apparatus of the provincial capitals and an increased use of civil servants at the county level in order to strengthen the connection with the population. In 1936 he finally returned to Germany.

post war period

After the Second World War , Jaenicke was appointed State Commissioner for Refugees in the Bavarian state government at the end of 1945, to which he was the only Protestant and non-party. Since 1947 he held the title of State Secretary.

In 1952, Jaenicke was sent to Karachi as the first German ambassador for Pakistan . In March 1954, Jaenicke was appointed German ambassador to the Holy See by Konrad Adenauer , where he stayed until 1957. In the last years of his life, Jaenicke was honored many times. In 1953 he received the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1959 the Bavarian Order of Merit and in 1963 an honorary doctorate ( Dr. jur. Hc. ) From the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne for Dr. jur. hc.

Fonts

  • Comparative table of the Prussian administrative districts , Breslau 1926.
  • Four years of care for the displaced in Bavaria 1945-1949 , 1950.
  • Work creates home , Munich 1950.
  • La Silésie, une gage de paix , Göttingen 1959.
  • The importance of Silesia for Germany , Stuttgart 1962.
  • Diary during the Kapp Putsch , in: Herbert Hupka (Hrsg.): Leben in Schlesien , Munich 1962.
  • The struggle for power in the Far East. Political and economic prehistory of the 1937 Sino-Japanese War and its effects on the present , Würzburg 1963.
  • I think of Silesia , slea (reissue of Life in Silesia )

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life in Silesia. Memories from Five Decades , 1964, p. 307.
  2. ^ T. Hunt Tooley: National Identity and Weimar Germany , 1997, p. 147.
  3. ↑ Bernd Martin: German-Chinese Relations, 1928-1937 , 2003, p. 31.
  4. ^ Deutsche Akademie: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte , 1963, p. 125.

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predecessor Office successor
vacant German ambassador to the Holy See
1954–1957 		Rudolf Alfred Emanuel Count Strachwitz
personal data
SURNAME Jaenicke, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DStP), MdR and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 5th April 1968
Place of death Lenggries