Adolf von Carlowitz

Georg Adolf von Carlowitz (born February 23, 1900 in Dresden , † November 19, 1966 in Goslar ) was a German civil servant.

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Adolf von Carlowitz was a son of the last Royal Saxon Minister of War, Adolph von Carlowitz .

After completing a banking apprenticeship Carlowitz finished a law degree with the first legal state examination and a doctorate Dr. jur. from. From 1926 to June 1932 Carlowitz was a civilian employee in the Reichswehr Ministry. In his position as a clerk or consultant for treason processes, he was employed in the political department of the ministry and in this capacity was a close associate and confidante of Kurt von Schleicher , Eugen Ott and Erich Marcks .

In the autumn of 1932, at the instigation of Kurt von Schleicher, Carlowitz was appointed head of the press office of the Prussian State Ministry and was promoted to senior government councilor.

After Carlowitz asked for a leave of absence from civil service immediately after the National Socialists came to power on January 31, 1933, he was given temporary retirement in February 1933 and final retirement later in the year. His position as head of the press office of the State Ministry has meanwhile been transferred to the Papen confidante Herbert von Bose .

Since leaving the civil service, Carlowitz has mainly dealt with economic tasks. In the course of 1933 Carlowitz took over a position as press officer of the Reich Association of Private Insurance . From the summer of 1938 he worked in the central administration of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring .

At the end of the war, when the Red Army occupied Berlin, Carlowitz was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he returned in October 1946. After the examination of his political integrity by the British military government , he was appointed trustee of the assets of the former Reichswerke Hermann Göring in Berlin.

Web links

Adolf von Carlowitz in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

^ Matthias Lau Press policy as an opportunity: State public relations in the countries of the Weimar Republic. BKG, Volume 14, Stuttgart / Steiner, 2003, p. 113, note 433. ISBN 3-515-08071-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Carlowitz, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Carlowitz, Georg Adolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1966
Place of death	Goslar

[1] Matthias Lau Press policy as an opportunity: State public relations in the countries of the Weimar Republic. BKG, Volume 14, Stuttgart / Steiner, 2003, p. 113, note 433. ISBN 3-515-08071-6 .