Hanns Jess

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Hanns Jess (born July 5, 1887 in Lüneburg , † February 3, 1975 in Schloßborn / Taunus ) was Director of the Federal Criminal Police Office from 1952 to 1954 and President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution from July 23, 1954 to July 31, 1955 .

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Jess grew up in Marburg and, after graduating from high school in 1907, studied law and political science in Bonn and Marburg , where he passed the first state examination in law in 1910. In 1907 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . After being appointed trainee lawyer, he worked in Wetter (Hesse) , Marburg, Cologne and Kassel before taking the second state law examination in 1914. During his legal clerkship , Jess did his PhD. jur.

Immediately after completing his doctorate, he was drafted for military service on the Western Front. During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class before he was discharged from the military as a lieutenant in the reserve at the end of 1918. From 1919 to 1923 he was a city councilor and from October 1919 head of the Schwerin city ​​police , before moving to the Mecklenburg Interior Ministry in 1923, where he was responsible for police matters as a ministerial councilor. In this function he was also head of the State Criminal Police Office from 1931 to 1933 .

When the NSDAP took over the government in Mecklenburg in 1933, Jess - as a member of the German People's Party  - was replaced as head of the State Criminal Police Office and transferred to the social and transport department. Since he was too old for military service at the beginning of the war, Jess worked on war damage in the state administration during the war.

After the end of the war, in May 1945, at the suggestion of Carl Moltmann and Friedrich Stratmann , Jess was appointed head of the remaining state administration in Schwerin by the American occupation forces, released by the British in May, placed under arrest and on June 18, 1945 again entrusted with the administration appointed Minister of State. A few days later he was replaced by Reinhold Lobedanz. After the complete takeover of Mecklenburg by the Soviet occupying power (SMAD) in July 1945, he became head of the central personnel department of the state administration under President Wilhelm Höcker , then President of the Reich Railway Directorate Schwerin. In 1945, Jess co-founded the CDU in the Soviet occupation zone .

He fled to West Germany with his wife in 1948 and in 1949 became Police Vice President in Frankfurt am Main . After the arrest of Police President Willy Klapproth , he took over the role of Police President on a provisional basis until he was appointed President of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden on March 24, 1952 . On July 20, 1954, the then President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Otto John went to the GDR , which is why Jess took over the provisional management of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution on July 23, 1954. On July 31, 1955, Jess retired.

From 1956 to 1964 he was a member of the Frankfurt city council and from 1960 to 1962 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

On the occasion of his retirement , Jess was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic. In 1962 he received the plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt am Main .

Works

  • Liability of the claim from insurance for mortgages, land charges and pension debts . Koch, Marburg 1912 (dissertation)

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 22-23.
  • Damian van Melis: Denazification in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: rule and administration 1945–1948 . Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56390-4 , p. 53.
  • Berit Olschewski: "Friends" in enemy territory. Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945–1953 . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-2795-4 , p. 94.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbara Fait: Mecklenburg (-Vorpommern) . In: Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber : SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , pp. 109, 117.
  2. ↑ Minutes of the Federal Cabinet of July 23, 1954 .
personal data
SURNAME Jess, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION President of the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Germany)
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1975
Place of death Schlossborn , Taunus