Alfred Olscher

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Alfred Olscher (born September 8, 1887 in Dresden , † January 29, 1946 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a German lawyer and official in the Reich Ministry of Finance .

Life

Olscher completed by the end of his school career in Breslau to study law at the University of Leipzig . After completing his studies, he completed his legal clerkship in 1910 and joined the judiciary in 1913 as a court assessor. In 1914 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . The title of his dissertation was "The legal nature of the protective power of the German Empire in the German protected areas". From 1914 to 1918, Olscher took part in the First World War.

After the war he was employed from 1919 in the Saxon government service as a financial steward and as early as 1920 as a Councilor at the Regional Tax Office Dresden. In 1922, Olscher moved to the Reich Ministry of Finance, where he was active as a councilor from 1923 and as a senior councilor from 1924. From 1929 he was ministerial advisor and general adviser for budget issues and from 1932 ministerial director and from 1933 with the budget department in the Reich Ministry of Finance. Olscher retired in 1937.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , from 1934 he belonged to the Friends of the Reichsführer SS . Olscher sat on the advisory board of the Deutsche Reichsbank . From 1937 he was a member of the board of directors of Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft AG and was also a board member of Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG ( VIAG ). Furthermore, he sat u. a. from 1940 on the supervisory board of the Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte , of the Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke and of Ilse Bergbau AG .

After the end of the Second World War , Olscher was arrested and initially taken to special camp No. 4 in Landsberg (Warthe) . After the camp was closed, he was transferred to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald in January 1946, where he died shortly afterwards on January 29, 1946.

literature

  • Holm Kirsten: The Soviet Special Camp No. 4 Landsberg / Warthe , ed. from the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-952-X .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Olscher, Alfred, Dr. jur. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, p. 463.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olscher, Alfred, Dr. jur. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, p. 463
  2. ↑ a b Alfred Olscher in the online version of the edition files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
  3. ↑ a b Holm Kirsten: The Soviet Special Camp No. 4 Landsberg / Warthe , Göttingen 2005, p. 104
  4. ↑ Johannes Bähr et al.: The Flick Group in the Third Reich . Published by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Oldenbourger Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 , p. 850.
personal data
SURNAME Olscher, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald