Ernst Articus

Signature of Ernst Articus

Gustav Hermann Ernst Articus (born October 16, 1876 in Berlin ; † July 25, 1947 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official . From 1929 to 1944 he was President of the Reich Debt Administration .

Life

Articus comes from a Silesian Protestant humanist family. He was born in Berlin as the son of a businessman and Elisabeth, born Krause. He received his education at the Königstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin and at the Protestant Gymnasium in Liegnitz , where he passed the Abitur at Easter 1896. Subsequently, he served with the rank of lieutenant as a one-year volunteer at the Silesian Grenadier Regiment of King Frederick III. No. 11. Then he studied law and political science at the universities of Berlin and Breslau .

In 1899 Articus became a trainee lawyer. After his first use from 1904 as a court assessor, he became a government assessor in the Prussian agricultural administration in 1905 . On October 9, 1905, he married Erna Witzmann, the Catholic daughter of the Privy Councilor Julius Witzmann. The only daughter Gerda was born on October 22, 1908.

In 1911 he was Councilor and Laborers in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture and in 1914 director of the nonprofit subsidiary "own soil" for the Brandenburg Land Management in Frankfurt (Oder) . On August 3, 1914, he went into the field with the Prussian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 16 as first lieutenant and was seriously wounded.

After Articus was appointed secret government councilor and lecturing council in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture in 1915 , he became President of the Prussian Higher Regional Culture Court in 1918 and finally Ministerial Director in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests and Head of Department VI (Regional Culture, Moor and Hydraulic Engineering, 1920) Fishing and hunting, dunes and non-governmental forestry). In this function he was also the deputy representative of the State of Prussia at the Reichsrat until 1929 . In 1929, Articus succeeded Carl Halle as President of the Reich Debt Administration and the Prussian National Debt Administration. He stayed in office until 1944.

He was a member of the German Association for Further Education in Political Science .

Articus died in July 1947 at the age of 70 and was buried in the old St. Jacobi churchyard in Berlin-Neukölln (field JEB-211).

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd class
• Wound badge in black

Fonts

• 25 years of agricultural settlement
• Essays in the Archives for Inner Colonization
• Articles in the journal for agricultural and water law

literature

• Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
• The German Reich from 1918 to today: therein: Leading personalities. - Born 1931–1933. - Berlin: Verlag für Presse, Wirtschaft und Politik, 1931–1935
• The German Leader Lexicon: 1934/1935. - Berlin: Stollberg, 1934
• Degeners who is it? : a collection of around 18,000 biographies with information on origin, family, curriculum vitae, publications and works, favorite occupation, membership in societies, address and other communications of general interest. - 10th edition - Berlin: Degener, 1935
• German Biographical Encyclopedia. - Munich [et al.]: Saur, 1995-1999. - 10 vols

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the Berlin-Zehlendorf registry office No. 1476/1947.
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexikon Berliner Grabstätten , Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006
3. ↑ Company history - President of Debt Management , Internet presence of the Federal Republic of Germany - Finanzagentur GmbH , accessed on September 26, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Articus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ernst Articus in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic