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Botho Bauch (born December 26, 1897 in Lötzen; † September 1973 ) was a German lawyer and civil servant, most recently a ministerial director in the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

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After attending school and studying law, Bauch entered the civil service. From 1929 to 1933 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior when the Weimar Republic ended . Politically he belonged to the German Democratic Party at that time. He then worked for the government in Breslau from 1933 to 1937 and then from 1937 to 1945 as a department head at the Reich Commissioner for Pricing.

After the Second World War, Bauch was accepted into the civil service of the Federal Republic. In 1949 he worked briefly for the German Association of Cities before he worked in the Federal Ministry of the Interior until his retirement in the 1960s. From 1950 to 1952 he was head of department Z2 (budget), then head of department II (civil service law and other personnel law in the public service, compensation) and from 1957 of department ZB (civil protection). In the ministerial service he was successively promoted to ministerial director and ministerial director.

At the end of the 1960s, at the request of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Bauch began creating the so-called Bauch Collection on the resistance and persecution of civil servants in the Nazi state, which is now kept by the Federal Archives.

literature

• Handbook of Public Life , 1967.
• Who is who? , 1962, p. 56

Web links

• Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin: Witness literature online. ZS 1851, Bauch, Botho (PDF file; 2.73 MB). Transcript of the belly "Memories of Peter Yorck von Wartenburg", November 29, 1963; Belly letter to Aronson, May 16, 1966 regarding the organization of the police department and personnel policy measures in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and news collection point 1930–1933.