August Schmid (administrative lawyer)

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August Schmid (born July 22, 1869 in Kassel , † February 26, 1947 in Lippoldsberg ) was a German ministerial official and expellee functionary.

Life

August Schmid attended the humanistic grammar school in Kassel. He then studied law at the Universities of Würzburg, Munich and Berlin. In Würzburg he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1888 . In Munich he joined the Corps Franconia in 1889 . In 1890 he passed the trainee exam in Kassel. After passing the assessor examination, he became a court assessor and assistant to the district administrator in Saarlouis in July 1895. From 1903 to 1912 he worked for the senior council in Poznan. In 1913 he moved to the district government of Allenstein while being promoted to the senior government council. From 1914 to 1919 he represented the district president there.

In 1919 Schmid was appointed to the Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, where he headed the Opole Minorities Office for the implementation of the German-Polish minority agreement of May 15, 1922, after he had previously worked on its provisions in Geneva.

In 1924 he was given temporary retirement. As president, he was in charge of the German East Federation , whose aim until its dissolution in 1934 was to create new livelihoods in agriculture as farmers or workers for German resettlers from Poland.

Awards

August Schmid was appointed secret councilor.

literature

See also

Protection of minorities , there protection of minorities in the League of Nations and the UN

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Lippoldsberg registry office No. 4/1947.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 143 , 317
  3. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106 , 520
  4. ↑ See “German-Polish Agreement on Upper Silesia” (Upper Silesia Agreement, OSA) of May 15, 1922, in: Reichsgesetzblatt , 1922, Part II, p. 238ff.
  5. ↑ Albert S. Kotowski, Poland's policy towards its German minority 1919-1939 , Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998, p. 176 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official and expellee functionary
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1947
Place of death Lippoldsberg