Bernhard Wolff (Ministerial Director)

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Bernhard Wolff (* 1886 ; † 1970 ) was a lawyer and German ministerial official.

Life

Wolff was an officer in the First World War. From 1921 to 1933 he was a ministerial advisor in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, where he worked in the Aliens Police Department with Eastern Jews who immigrated to Germany . After the so-called seizure of power , he worked at the Prussian Higher Administrative Court from 1933 to 1941 , from 1941 to 1945 as a ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of Justice and as a judge at the Oberprisenhof.

After the end of the Second World War , he worked from 1948 to 1949 in a managerial position in the administration for finances of the United Economic Area . After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he worked in the Federal Ministry of Finance from 1949 to 1956 , where he held the rank of ministerial director from 1950 to 1954 as head of Department VI ( legal affairs, liquidation of the war , from 1952 also international financial relations, reparations ). In 1952 he was chairman of the German negotiating delegation to repay the clearing billion to Switzerland. From 1954 to 1956 he was head of the reparation group.

Honors

  • 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Pross: reparation: the guerrilla war against the victims. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , p. 66f
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
DATE OF DEATH 1970