Carl Völckers (lawyer)

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Carl Völckers
October 15, 1940

Carl Völckers (born October 24, 1886 in Bremen , † November 16, 1970 in Bremen) was a German administrative lawyer. From 1931 he was State Councilor in Bremen and from 1940 to 1945 at the same time the commissioner of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Dutch territories in Rotterdam .

biography

Völckers was the son of the district court director Adolph Völckers (1844–1920). He studied law at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1912. jur. From 1919 he was in the Bremen civil service, first as Senate Secretary at the Bremen Senate , 1920 Government Council, 1921 Lecturing Council and from 1920 Extraordinary Deputy Plenipotentiary of Bremen to advise the Reich Government (RR). In 1931 he became the Bremen State Councilor of the Senate Authority for Shipping, Trade and Industry and he was then President of this authority until 1945. From 1931 to 1934 he was Bremen's deputy authorized representative at RR. He joined the NSDAP in 1933 .

In 1940 he was also the representative of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Dutch territories -  Arthur Seyß-Inquart  - for the city of Rotterdam .

From 1949 until his retirement (1966), Völckers was managing director of Röchling .

Since 1908 he was a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen .

Völckers was married. He was buried in the Riensberg cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129 , 694