Ernst Ziehm

Ernst Ziehm ( born May 1, 1867 in Damerau, Circle Marienburg, West Prussia, † July 7, 1962 in Timmendorfer beach ) was a German jurist, judge and politician.

Life and career

After he had passed the Abitur in 1887, Ziehm began at the Eberhard -Karls- University of Tübingen to study law and political science. It was October 1888 in the Corps Suevia Tübingen active and only after a year, on November 27, 1889, recipiert. Easter 1890 inactivated, he moved to the University of Leipzig. In the same year he joined the Corps there also Misnia Leipzig. As Inactive he finally went to the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. After the First State Exam, he went through in West Prussia the clerkship in Strasburg and Marie Werder. In 1892 he received his doctorate in Leipzig Dr. iur ..

After the assessor examination (1896 ), he was on leave in 1897 abroad. In 1898 he came to the provincial administration of West Prussia in Danzig. Since 1899, the magistrate in Strasburg (Uckermark ), it was 1900, he added Oberlandesgericht Marienwerderstraße. From 1905 to 1914 he was Executive Council with the government in Opole in Upper Silesia. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Administrative Court in Gdańsk. By 1920, he was also Vice President of the Government. After giving up his judgeship, he was from 1920 deputy of the Danziger DNVP ( not identical to the German Reich DNVP ) in the People's Day and to 1925 Deputy Senate President ( head of government). From 1922 to 1930 he officiated at the same time as President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Gdansk. He was instrumental in the drafting of the guaranteed by the League of Nations constitution for the Free City of Danzig.

When the Senate President Heinrich Sahm could not form a new coalition more, took Ziehm 1931, the Senate presidency. The Senate Ziehm of German Centre Party and DNVP was tolerated in the People's Day of the NSDAP. After the victory of the NSDAP in the Reichstag elections in March 1933 Ziehm had to cede the summer of 1933 his office to the Nazis Hermann Rauschning. Ziehm withdrew from political life. With his wife Olga born Hardt he had the son Günther ( * 1902) and the daughter Wiltrud (* 1910).

Works

  • Danzig, a problem of European politics. Danzig 1932.
  • From my political work in Gdansk 1914-1939 ( autobiography ). J. G. Herder Institute, Marburg 1956, 1960.

Honors

  • Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1952 )
Administrative law Brodnica Kwidzyn Strasburg, Germany Gdańsk Volkstag Centre Party (Germany) Arthur Greiser Integrated Authority File
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