Ernst Beckmann (administrative lawyer)

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Ernst Beckmann (born September 21, 1893 in Athens , † August 27, 1957 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German administrative lawyer. As a member of the NSDAP he was President of the Province of Hesse-Nassau in the Free State of Prussia .

Life

Beckmann studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1912 he became active in the Corps Hasso-Borussia . After passing the state examination and subsequent training he worked from 1928 as a Councilor on the regional council Dusseldorf before 1930 the District of Oberwesterwald circle based in Bad Marienberg was appointed. In 1932 he moved to Witzenhausen in Hesse in the same position . In 1938 he was first appointed government vice-president in Kassel , then on July 1, 1944, he was appointed district president. After the arrest of Oberpräsident Philipp von Hessen , Beckmann succeeded him in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau until it was divided on June 30, 1944. He held this post until the collapse of National Socialist rule . In 1945/46 he spent a year in automatic arrest . He then did not return to the civil service.,

Beckmann was a member of the German People's Party in the Weimar Republic and switched to the NSDAP in 1933.

Individual evidence

  1. "Beckmann, Ernst" . In: Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. 2nd completely revised and expanded edition, Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3922244904 , p. 41.
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 31 , 311.
  3. RGBl. I 1944, pp. 109–111 “Decree of the Führer on the formation of the provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau” and “Decree of the Führer on the division of the Province of Saxony” of April 1, 1944, possibly only provisionally.
  4. Marcus Dittrich: Bundling & steering: The Kassel regional council between administration and design . Kassel University Press (2008), p. 218

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