Benno Mergenthaler

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Benno Mergenthaler (born January 18, 1886 in Pirmasens , † November 30, 1983 in Bamberg ) was a German administrative lawyer and head of the Gladbeck police office .

Career

Benno Mergenthaler was after studying in Munich , where he a member of the Corps Rheno-Palatia Munich was certified legal intern and performed from 1914 to 1918 as an officer military service . In April 1919 he was in Würzburg with Friedrich Oetker with the dissertation “The living human body in the current criminal procedure law, taking into account the draft. A contribution to the theory of appearances and the search " doctorate .

In September 1919 he came to the district government of Ansbach as an assessor and moved to Tirschenreuth , where he became district administrator , before receiving a secondment as a consultant at the Berlin office of the Bavarian State Representation at the German-Italian mixed arbitration court on December 1, 1923. At that time he was a member of the DDP and was nominated as candidate for mayor of the left parties in the local elections in Regensburg against Otto Hipp in 1920 . In May 1924 he was transferred to the Roman office of the arbitration tribunal. In the meantime appointed to the senior government council, Mergenthaler was initially unemployed because the arbitration court was dissolved on June 30, 1930. April 1, 1932, he found a job on a trial basis in the Berlin police headquarters , moving to the short time the police headquarters in Kassel and was on January 1, 1933 as Councilor in the Prussian civil service adopted, where he became head of the Police Department Gladbeck. As early as March 20, 1933, he was transferred to the Magdeburg Police Headquarters . From September 1933 onwards, Mergenthaler worked for the Hildesheim district government , and in January 1940 he became senior councilor. As head of the price control office, he was also involved in the expropriation of the Jews. At the time he was a member of the board of directors at Ludwig Kopp AG - Elka shoe factory in Pirmasens.

The sources do not provide any information about his further life. In an archival file in the Federal Archives , Mergenthaler is also named Dr. rer. pole. guided.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918-1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch, Münster, Aschendorff Verlag, 2004, pp. 219 f., ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Benno Mergenthaler in the Find a Grave database . Accessed July 30, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Official register of the staff of teachers, civil servants and students ... 1905/06 and 1906/07
  3. ↑ Archival document in the finding aid database of the Bavarian Main State Archive
  4. ^ Jürgen Buchner: The criminal law professor Friedrich Oetker . Würzburg, 2020
  5. ^ Print by Lorenz Ellwanger vorm. Th. Burger, Bayreuth 1919
  6. ↑ Alexander Schüller: Regensburg in the Weimar period. Regensburg local politics in the Weimar Republic . Inaugural dissertation at the University of Regensburg 2010
  7. ^ Files in the Lower Saxony State Archives on Arcinsys
  8. ↑ Katharina Stengel: Before the annihilation: the state expropriation of the Jews under National Socialism . Campus Verlag, 2007 (p. 194 f.)
  9. ↑ Dominique Vidal: Les historiens allemands relisent la Shoah . Editions Complexe, 2002 (p. 57 f.)
  10. ↑ Company entry in the database of albert-gieseler.de
  11. ↑ Database entry on invenio.bundesarchiv.de
personal data
SURNAME Mergenthaler, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and head of the Gladbeck Police Office
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1983
Place of death Bamberg