Heinrich Welsch
Henry Welsch ( born October 13, 1888 in Saarlouis, † November 23, 1976 in Saarbrücken ) was a German lawyer and politician.
Profession
From 1908 to 1911 he studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Bonn. In 1911 he graduated from the first state exam and then was clerk of the district courts Merzig and Saarlouis, the District Court and the Prosecutor's Office Saarbrücken and at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne. In 1921 he passed the second state examination and was then to 1934 Attorney in Saarbrücken. Then he was until 1935 a speaker at the provincial government in Trier and head of the state police office. From 1935 to 1936 he served as Representative of Germany to the Supreme Court vote in the Saarland, which should control the referendum on the membership of the Saarland. Then he served until 1945 as Attorney General at the Higher Regional Court in Zweibrücken. During this time he was also 1938-1940 Special Representative with the authority of the Reich Commissioner for the reunification of Austria with the German Reich from 1940 to 1945 and head of the German judicial administration in the occupied Lorraine.
Even after the war took Welsch multiple functions: From 1948 to 1957 he was President of the State Insurance Office and the State Court supply of Saarland and 1950 Chairman of the Board of the railways of the Saarland.
Activities during the Nazi era
In the years 1934/1935 Welsh directed the Gestapo office in Trier, collected in the spy reports from the Saarland on anti- fascists, signed by Welsch and were forwarded by Secret State Police Office in Berlin. Welsch provided, among other lists of recipients of the newspaper " New Post Saar " (edited by Johannes Hoffmann), including 22 pastors, and directories of the Communist officials in the Saar. This information provided the Nazis the basis for persecution, torture and murder.
Welsch's career in the Third Reich has several important stations:
- Representative of the German Empire in polls court
- Attorney General in Zweibrücken
- Special Representative of the Reich Ministry of Justice in Austria
- Chief of the entire administration of justice in Lorraine
Political offices
From 1951 to 1952 Welsch was the director of the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, and after the resignation of the Saarland Prime Minister John Hoffmann, who thus drew the consequences of the rejection of the favored him Saar Statute, he was, although he belonged to no party, on 29 October in 1955, his successor as prime minister and at the same time Minister of Justice and Minister of Labour and Welfare. On 18 December 1955, the Parliament of Saarland was elected. Welsch reigned with his Cabinet until 10 January 1956. His successor was then Hubert Ney.
Other Features
1956-1973 Welsch was president of the National Association of Arrival of the German Red Cross.
Awards
Henry Welsch was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.