Wolrad Schwertfeger

Wolrad Schwertfeger (born July 11, 1905 in Bückeburg ; † July 17, 1992 there ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Wolfrad Schwertfeger was born the son of a state school board. After graduating from high school Adolfinum Bückeburg , he began studying law at the universities of Marburg , Berlin and Göttingen , which he completed in 1927 with the first state examination in law. In the same year he was at the University of Gottingen to doctor of law doctorate (PhD thesis: The theory of official employment with special reference to the doctrine of bilateral administrative act ). He then joined the Prussian judicial service and completed his legal clerkship in Hanover , Berlin and Celle . In 1930 he passed the second state examination in law. Then he settled as a lawyer in Bückeburg.

Schwertfeger ran in 1933 for the Black-White-Red Combat Front , a merger of DNVP and Stahlhelm , and was elected as a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe , to which he belonged until its dissolution on October 14, 1933. From 1937 he was a member of the NSDAP .

Schwertfeger, who had previously legally represented the Schaumburg-Lippe family , had worked for the Princely Administration since 1936. From 1937 to 1969 he was head of the Princely Court Chamber as Hofkammerrat and thus adviser and legal representative of Wolrad zu Schaumburg-Lippe in many matters . In 1943 he was entrusted with the management of the Schaumburg-Lippe Chamber of Commerce.

After the Second World War , Schwertfeger was involved in the reconstruction of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schaumburg-Lippe . After 1945 he was a member of the parish council and the church council in Bückeburg. In 1948 he became a member of the presidium of the regional church office, of which he was president from 1966 to 1980. In addition, he acted as vice-president of the regional church council.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st class

literature

• Joachim Heubach / Michael Winckler (eds.): The church and its mission. Festival for privy councilor Dr. Wolrad Schwertfeger on his 75th birthday on July 11, 1980 , Bückeburg 1980.
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 334.

Web links

• Photo by Wolfrad Schwertfeger