Curt Godlewski

Kurt Franz Godlewski or Curt Godlewski (born August 6, 1880 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † October 10, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Godlwewski came from an East Prussian civil servant family. His father worked in the customs administration. Because of the frequent transfers of his father, he attended high schools in Dirschau , Danzig , Leer (Ostfriesland) , Magdeburg and Nuremberg . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the University of Leipzig . He was a member of the Corps Hansea Königsberg from 1899 and of the Corps Thuringia Leipzig from 1901 . He passed the first state examination in law in 1903 in Königsberg (sufficient). The trainee training in Gröningen and Halberstadt was interrupted by the one-year military service. After the assessor examination, which was also sufficiently graded, he worked for the Higher Customs Directorate in Münster in 1909/10 . After working for the customs administrations in Bocholt , Stettin , Saarbrücken and Magdeburg, he was appointed to the government council on August 1, 1916 and was temporarily employed at the Berlin customs directorate, which took him over to a permanent position on December 1, 1917. When the Prussian customs administration was converted into the Reichsfinanzverwaltung after the First World War , Godlewski was taken over into the Reichsdienst and employed in the state tax office. In mid-1920 he got a temporary position in the Reich Ministry of Economics (RWM). On behalf of the Reich Ministry for Reconstruction , he was entrusted with matters relating to inland navigation and the related requirements of the Versailles Treaty (expropriations, compensation, reconstruction). When these tasks were transferred to the Reich Ministry of Transport , Godlewski was given a senior council position there, but remained in the RWM. Not until March 1923 did he move to the Ministry of Transport. Due to the downsizing ordinance , he was put into temporary retirement on March 1, 1924 with 80% of his salary . On September 15, 1924 he found temporary employment in the Reich Statistical Office (property tax and sales tax statistics ). He proved himself “excellent everywhere” and was hired in April 1925. In the same year he temporarily moved to RWM. In 1927 he was permanently taken on and promoted to ministerial councilor. Godlewski was later responsible for statistics at the RWM and from 1933 worked in this area with the President of the Reich Statistical Office, Wolfgang Reichardt .

Godlewski joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party on May 1, 1933 , but did not hold any party offices. When Hjalmar Schacht was appointed chief plenipotentiary for the war economy in 1935 , Godlewski came under Helmut Wohlthat to the management staff to which Schacht had delegated the war economy tasks of his ministries. When Reinhardt left, Godlewski became President of the Reich Statistical Office on October 1, 1940. He stayed that way until 1945. After the end of the war, he went into hiding in the Soviet occupation zone and made his way through handicrafts. When he came to his residence in West Berlin , he lived there as a retiree. In 1953 he received the ribbon of the Corps Rhenania Bonn . In 1959 he moved to Wiesbaden, where he died that same year.

literature

• Curt Godlewski , in: Jutta Wietog: Censuses under National Socialism. Documentation on population statistics in the Third Reich , Biographical Appendix. Duncker & Humblot 2001, pp. 208 f., ISBN 342810384X

Individual evidence

1. ^ According to the registry office in Wiesbaden, information from the Wiesbaden City Archives of January 17, 2011
2. ↑ So after J. Wietog and Kösener Corp lists
3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 138/155; 155/177
4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 127/1022