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

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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 .

personal data
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

[1] Farewell to Dr. jur. hc Eberhard Freiherr von Medem in: Physikalische Blätter , Vol. 49, No. 4 (February 19, 1993), p. 319.

[2] 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 .

[3] Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 5, January 9, 1979.

[4] Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .