Eberhard Freiherr von Medem
Eberhard Kurt Hermann Georg Freiherr von Medem (born December 29, 1913 in Beeskow (Mark); † January 19, 1993 in Düsseldorf ) was a German administrative lawyer.
Career
Baron von Medem, the son of Walter von Medem , was from 1935 to 1939 trainee lawyer in the Berlin Court District. In addition, since 1935 he was Carl Schmitt's secretary at the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers . After military service (1939–40), he joined the government of the General Government of Krakow in 1940, where he was government councilor and head of personnel in the State Secretariat from 1943–1944. In 1944 he was drafted into military service and was taken prisoner, from which he returned in 1949. In 1950 he became a consultant at the German Research Foundation. In 1954 he moved to the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was appointed government director in 1956, ministerial advisor in 1957 and ministerial director in 1960. From 1961 he was Chancellor of the University of Bonn . From 1965 to 1968 he was the representative of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the organizational and administrative planning of the university in East Westphalia and a member of the founding committee of Bielefeld University . In 1969 he went to the State Chancellery as a ministerial conductor. In 1970 he returned to the Ministry of Education as a ministerial conductor and in the same year became ministerial conductor in the newly created Ministry of Science and Research. In 1978 he retired.
Eberhard Freiherr von Medem was the administrator of Carl Schmitt's written estate stored at the main state archive in Düsseldorf and, in 1991, the editor of his glossary. Records from 1947-1951 .
Honors
- 1973: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1978: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1979: Honorary citizen of the University of Bonn
- 1979: University medal from the University of Cologne
- 1983: Honorary Senator of Bielefeld University
- 1989: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Farewell to Dr. jur. hc Eberhard Freiherr von Medem in: Physikalische Blätter , Vol. 49, No. 4 (February 19, 1993), p. 319.
- ^ Carl Schmitt: Glossary. Records for the years 1947–1951 , ed. by Eberhard Freiherr von Medem, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-428-07126-5 .
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 5, January 9, 1979.
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Medem, Eberhard Freiherr von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Medem, Eberhard Kurt Hermann Georg Freiherr von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Beeskow (Mark) |
DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1993 |
Place of death | Dusseldorf |