Erich Zerahn

Erich Zerahn (born May 25, 1885 in Rastenburg ; † March 27, 1952 between Celle and Hanover ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

In 1904, Zerahn graduated from high school in Königsberg and studied law in Königsberg and Heidelberg from 1904 to 1908. On June 19, 1908, he passed the first and on May 6, 1913, the second state examination. In 1913 he became a court assessor. On May 15, 1916, he was transferred to the Bochum Income Tax Assessment Commission and on May 15, 1917, he became a government assessor. From April 1, 1919 to March 31, 1920 he was head of the Prussian state tax office in Gumbinnen, where he became a councilor in 1920. From April 1, 1920 to March 15, 1931 he was director of the Insterburg tax office and on July 1, 1925 was promoted to the senior government council. Between March 16, 1931 and December 31, 1933, he was a board member of the Elbing Tax Office and then until March 31, 1938, State Tax Office Director at the State Tax Office in Königsberg. From April 1, 1938 to March 31, 1943 he was Chief Finance President in Nuremberg and then Chief Finance President East Prussia in Königsberg until 1945.

On March 27, 1952, he died in a fall from the railway between Celle and Hanover.

politics

Zerahn belonged to the NSDAP and was briefly a member of the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia and the Prussian State Council in 1933 .

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the councils of state appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , p. 185.
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933. 2018, p. 61 ( digitized ).
• Joachim Lilla: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945, article Zerahn, Erich ( Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online ).