Carl Krautwig

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Carl Krautwig , also Karl Krautwig (born November 5, 1904 in Cologne ; † December 18, 1981 there ) was a German civil servant and lawyer who was not only State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for All-German Issues , but also in the Federal Chancellery .

Life

The son of the professor of medicine and medical first Assistant Secretary of Cologne, Peter Tilden (1870-1926), studied after the Abitur at Dreikönigsgymnasium law at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg , University of Cologne and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn . In Freiburg, Krautwig became a member of the student association KDStV Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau . After his promotion to the doctorate in law at the University of Cologne with a dissertation on the subject of liability for incidental during application and when performed without due authority in the Civil Code, together with a comparative overview (1928) and the existence of the two legal state exam he took in 1931 started working as a lawyer in Cologne.

At the beginning of the Second World War , he began his military service in the Wehrmacht in 1939 , before he was an army judge between 1942 and 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War, he joined Cologne's local government and was the chief administrative director there. In 1948 he then moved to the administrative board of the United Economic Area as head of the directorate's office .

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , he was appointed Head of Department Z (Administration) in the Federal Ministry of Economics in 1949 , before he was then Head of Department IV (Commercial Economics) for ten years from 1953 to 1963. Carl Krautwig was one of the closest advisors to the then Federal Minister of Economics, Ludwig Erhard, at the time of the economic miracle .

Grave site of the Krautwig family

In 1963, Krautwig left the service of the Federal Ministry of Economics, but shortly afterwards was appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Pan-German Issues on February 1, 1964, and held this position until 1968. During this time, in December 1965, he also became State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery. As such, he was the authorized representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in Berlin until 1969 , after which he retired .

Krautwig died in 1981 at the age of 77 and was buried in the family grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (Hall 6 (Q)).

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  1. Federal Archives