Ernst Jarmer

Ernst Jarmer (born August 14, 1886 in Lüben , Lower Silesia ) was a German lawyer and administrative lawyer .

Life

After receiving his doctorate in 1909, Jarmer worked as a lawyer in Greifswald . In 1925 he joined the NSDAP. From 1934 to 1935 he worked as governor of the province of Pomerania . This was followed by work as a regional economic consultant for Pomerania. At the University of Greifswald, Ernst Jarmer also headed the so-called "University Circle" from January 1935, a forerunner of the Greifswald university working group for spatial research .

From mid-1935, Jarmer temporarily headed the administrative department in the Reich Office for Spatial Planning as Ministerial Director .

In spatial planning , Jarmer was one of those Nazi actors who warned of an ideologically based 'overstrain' of the planning concept or, to put it another way, preferred 'more rational' forms for upcoming spatial planning tasks in the 'East'. The historian Ariane Leendertz emphasized that in 1940 Ernst Jarmer, unlike his supposed opponent Konrad Meyer, saw "the core of spatial planning not in the active design of spatial structures".

According to Jarmer, her core task (that of spatial planning; introduction) was rather to coordinate the many different administrative activities that were reflected in the spatial structures. (..) This in no way meant that spatial planning was one of Meyer disgraced 'administrative technology' adopted from their overriding goals of drawing up spatial plans and working towards a 'meaningful' spatial order. "

Jarmer (and with him the Reich Office for Spatial Planning) would have reacted primarily to the realities of planning practice, since the planning administrative offices opposed a standardizing 'tutelage'. In Jarmer's eyes, spatial planning would have had the potential to become a model for 'modern' administrative technology for the National Socialist state:

“The head of the general state administration is primarily called upon to obtain clarity about the state and development of his administrative area and to let the state planner determine the function of the area given to him for supervision. In the future, he should not only master the urgent daily problems, but also have an overview of the administrative work of a longer period of time and then plan ahead. The modern administrative officer needs not only legal but also economic, statistical and technical knowledge; because he should understand the events in his administrative area in the various expressions and influence them according to a spatial planning plan. "

From January 1941, Jarmer worked as head of the main department 'Spatial Planning' of the Reich Commissioner for Social Housing ( Robert Ley ).

Publications on spatial planning (selection)

Political objectives and ideological delimitation of spatial planning , in: Raumforschung und Raumordnung (RuR), 1st year, 1936/37, volume 1., pp. 8-10.
Order of the German living space : In: Die Verwaltungsakademie. A manual for civil servants in the National Socialist state. - 2nd edition Berlin a. Vienna 1939.
Administration and spatial planning , in: RuR, 4th year, 1940, issue 11/12, pp. 426-439.
The tasks of spatial planning in the new east , in: RuR, 5th year, 1941, volume 1., pp. 1–2.
Spatial planning and reorganization measures to eliminate the consequences of war . In: Journal of the Academy for German Law 8 (1941), pp. 41–45.
Planning and design of the German living space . In: Social housing in Germany 13 (1942), pp. 1–4.

Individual evidence

Jump up ↑ Jan Mittenzwei: “Working towards the Führer” - NSD student union and NSD lecturer union in Greifswald. In: Dirk Alvermann (Ed.) "... drop the last barriers". Studies at the University of Greifswald under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne 2015, pp. 90–128 (here: 112).
↑ Hansjörg Gutberger: Spatial Development, Population and Social Integration , p. 92. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ariane Leendertz: Creating order. German spatial planning in the 20th century. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008.
^ Ernst Jarmer: The reorganization of the livelihoods of the rural people as a spatial planning administrative task . In: Deutsche Verwaltung 19 (1942), pp. 101-103 (here: 103)
^ Dieter Münk: The organization of space in National Socialism. A sociological investigation of ideologically based models in architecture, town planning and spatial planning of the Third Reich . Cologne 1993, p. 486.

personal data
SURNAME	Jarmer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lüben , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[1] Jump up ↑ Jan Mittenzwei: “Working towards the Führer” - NSD student union and NSD lecturer union in Greifswald. In: Dirk Alvermann (Ed.) "... drop the last barriers". Studies at the University of Greifswald under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne 2015, pp. 90–128 (here: 112).

[2] Hansjörg Gutberger: Spatial Development, Population and Social Integration , p. 92. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[Leendertz-3] Ariane Leendertz: Creating order. German spatial planning in the 20th century. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008.

[4] Ernst Jarmer: The reorganization of the livelihoods of the rural people as a spatial planning administrative task . In: Deutsche Verwaltung 19 (1942), pp. 101-103 (here: 103)

[5] Dieter Münk: The organization of space in National Socialism. A sociological investigation of ideologically based models in architecture, town planning and spatial planning of the Third Reich . Cologne 1993, p. 486.