Walter von Keudell

Walter of Keudell ( born July 17, 1884 in Castellammare di Stabia (Italy ); † May 7, 1973 in Bonn ) was a German forester, lawyer and politician ( DNVP, CNBLP, NSDAP and CDU).

Life and work

Walter of Keudell was the son of Robert of Keudell and the older brother of Otto von Keudell. After a practical agricultural and forestry basic training and the study of law, he entered the Prussian civil service one, was a member of the imperial grain point and in 1916 District Administrator of Königsberg Nm. In connection with the Kapp Putsch in 1920 he retired.

Keudell belonged from 1924 to 1930 the German Reichstag as a delegate to. In the fourth Marx Cabinet he served from January 1927 to June 1928 as Minister of the Interior. In May 1928, the Imperial Court rejected his request to ban the Communist Red Front Fighters' Union.

1929 Keudell left in protest against the course Alfred Hugenberg, the DNVP and was a member of the country people.

From 1932 began Keudell to work for Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, in which he desired Hermann Göring also occurred on 1 March 1933. After the seizure of power by the Nazis on August 4, 1933, he was first Prussian Oberland forester and on July 3, In 1934 General Forester and State Secretary in the Reich Forestry Office in Berlin Reich forester Hermann Goering. Since August 14, 1933 by Keudell also leaders ( from 1935 called "ladder" ) of the German Forestry Association. On November 1, 1937, he resigned from his position as General forester back. His successor the forestry nonqualified Friedrich Alpers was determined in 1938 succeeded him as head of the forestry club association.

After the Second World War he was a member of the CDU in 1948 and worked in the area of ​​displaced politics. In 1950 he signed the Charter of the German expellees as speaker of the country team Berlin- Brandenburg.

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