Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns (1936)

Axel Bruns (born June 7, 1915 in Lutzig , Belgard district , Hinterpommern ; † April 21, 1990 in Celle ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

As the son of a landowner, Bruns attended the Putbus pedagogy . After graduating from the former Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium zu Greifenberg in Pomerania , he was an apprentice in agriculture for a year . He began to study law and political science at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Philipps University of Marburg . On February 20, 1936 , he renounced as Bruns II and penultimate chestnut in the Corps Hasso-Nassovia . The corps had to suspend three months later . In 1938 the general meeting of the old gentry , Bruns and three other foxes , who had been fighting in 1936, decided to award the ribbon . When he was inactive , he moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1939 he passed the legal traineeship at the Supreme Court . He was called up for the Reich Labor Service and for military exercises in the army . Assessor since 1943 , he was appointed government councilor in 1944 .

Wehrmacht

The last exercise in the artillery regiment 241 in the 161st Infantry Division resulted in the attack on Poland . During the German-Soviet War , as the battery chief in the battle of Kharkov , he managed to repel troops of the Red Army that had broken through . For this he received the Knight's Cross. After being wounded five times , Bruns came as Captain d. R. and lecture director at the artillery school on the Groß Born military training area . During a study leave, he passed the trainee examination and, due to the war, also passed the oral doctoral examination. At the end of the war he was briefly a British prisoner of war . Both brothers had fallen.

Lower Saxony

Since he had not belonged to either the NSDAP or any other Nazi organization, he was employed in the civil service of the British zone of occupation , initially with the Hanover district in Rinteln and health resort director in Bad Nenndorf . In December 1945, the British appointed him as senior district director in the Grafschaft Schaumburg district . When the heads of administration had to be elected by the new district assemblies after Lower Saxony's first local elections , Bruns was left behind. He had better luck in the district of Celle , where a successor to the late senior district director Erich Wentker (1890–1947) was to be elected. Bruns was elected and was to remain in office for 29 years. With the delivery of the doctoral thesis he became 1952 in Goettingen the Dr. iur. PhD. He made particular merits in the integration of the many refugees from the eastern regions of the German Empire . During his term of office in 1975 the fire in the Lüneburg Heath also fell . For many years he was chairman of the Celler AHSC . After a long and serious illness, he died at the age of 75.

Private

At the time he took office in Celle, Bruns married his second wife, Thea geb. Kopplin from Greifenberg . The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son. After Thea's death (1964) he married Jutta geb. Hoene a. She gave birth to a son and a daughter.

Honors

Storm badge

Medal Winter Battle in the East 1941/42

Wound badge (1939) in gold

Iron Cross 2nd class

Iron Cross 1st Class

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (August 29, 1943)

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1974)

Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (1977)

Axel Bruns School, Vocational School II in Celle

Remarks

↑ The last prewar fox of the Hessen-Nassauer was Wolfgang Herbst, later an ophthalmologist in Hamburg-Bergedorf.
^ The older brother Erhard Bruns (1913–1942), also Hessen-Nassauer, was a government assessor in Aachen. He fell near Leningrad in 1942.
^ Karl-Georg Bruns (1911–1945) was a Saxon from Göttingen. In 1939 he took over his father's Lutzig estate (600 ha) and fell as a company commander at Stablack in East Prussia.
↑ The title of the Prussian district administrator was transferred to the political chairman of the district council.
↑ Christian Bruns (* 1950) is like his fallen uncle Göttingen Saxon.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Personalities then and now (Cellesche Zeitung)
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 68/1231.
^ Klaus Vassel: Corpsgeschichte der Hasso-Nassovia zu Marburg 1839–1954 , Part II, No. 1231. Marburg 1981, p. 336.
↑ Dissertation: The contractual options under the Reich hunting law .

personal data
SURNAME	Bruns, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer and administrative lawyer, senior district director in Rinteln and Celle
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lutzig , Belgard district, Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1990
Place of death	Celle

[4] The last prewar fox of the Hessen-Nassauer was Wolfgang Herbst, later an ophthalmologist in Hamburg-Bergedorf.

[5] The older brother Erhard Bruns (1913–1942), also Hessen-Nassauer, was a government assessor in Aachen. He fell near Leningrad in 1942.

[6] Karl-Georg Bruns (1911–1945) was a Saxon from Göttingen. In 1939 he took over his father's Lutzig estate (600 ha) and fell as a company commander at Stablack in East Prussia.

[7] The title of the Prussian district administrator was transferred to the political chairman of the district council.

[9] Christian Bruns (* 1950) is like his fallen uncle Göttingen Saxon.

[CZ-1] Personalities then and now (Cellesche Zeitung)

[2] Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 68/1231.

[3] Klaus Vassel: Corpsgeschichte der Hasso-Nassovia zu Marburg 1839–1954 , Part II, No. 1231. Marburg 1981, p. 336.

[8] Dissertation: The contractual options under the Reich hunting law .