Edmund Brückner
Edmund Brückner (born January 1, 1871 in Friedersdorf , Görlitz district , † December 31, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat and ministerial official . From 1911 to 1912 he was governor of the German colony of Togo .
Life
Brückner was born the son of the pastor and school inspector Edmund Brückner (senior) and the mother Adelheid Seckt. In 1895 he joined the Prussian judicial service as a trainee lawyer. He became a court assessor in 1900 and was employed by the Prussian administration in taxation in 1901 and 1902 before entering the diplomatic service. From 1903 to 1905, Brückner was a provisional district officer and consultant in Cameroon . From 1905 to 1910 he worked in the Foreign Office in the colonial department, which during this time became the Reich Colonial Office . In 1909 he was promoted to the position of the secret government council and lecturer council . In 1910 and 1911 he was Deputy Governor and First Consultant in German South West Africa . From 1911 to 1912 Brückner served as governor of the West African protected area of Togo. Since August 1912 he had the ranks of Privy Higher Government Council and Lecturing Council in the Reich Colonial Office.
During the First World War Brückner worked in the Belgian General Government in Brussels. Between 1920 and 1924 Brückner was temporarily employed at the Reich Ministry of Finance . From 1924 to 1935 he headed the newly established colonial department of the Foreign Office. In this position he brokered the repurchase of the formerly German plantations on the Kamerunberg , whose owners had left Cameroon as a result of the First World War. Until the Second World War, the economy of the mandate areas of British and French Cameroon was again shaped by German companies.
literature
- Jacob, Ernst Gerhard : Brückner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 656 ( digitized version ).
- Without an author, Brückner. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 1, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 244 ( online version ).
Web links
- Federal Archives: “Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic ”online, Brückner, Edmund .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brückner, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and ministerial official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedersdorf in the district of Görlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1935 |
| Place of death | Berlin |