Felix Busch

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Felix Busch , formerly Felix Emil Johannes Friedländer (born August 18, 1871 in Constantinople , † August 16, 1938 near Tutzing ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life

Busch's ancestors Friedlanders converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith at the beginning of the 19th century. Felix was the son of Justus Friedländer , the German consul in Istanbul and Constantinople , and grandson of Benoni Friedländer . His mother married the diplomat Clemens Busch , who adopted ten-year-old Felix in 1881 .

education

After private lessons, Busch attended the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin and the Pforta State School from 1885 to 1890 . After graduating from high school, he studied law and political science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1890 , from 1891 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University . In 1893 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . After the state examination in May 1893 received his doctorate he on 2 August 1893 in Heidelberg to Dr. iur. As a one-year volunteer , he served in the (Prussian) 1st Badische Leib-Dragoons Regiment No. 20 in Karlsruhe in 1893/94 .

From October 1894 he worked as a trainee lawyer at the Spandau district court. Busch examined the inheritance habits of agricultural land in the province of West Prussia. These were published in 1910. Busch also dealt with agricultural policy . In 1896 Busch changed from the judiciary to the administrative service of the Crown of Prussia . Appointed government trainee on January 11, 1897, he worked for a year at the Hanau District Office and the Hanau City Administration . After he had passed the Grand State Examination on February 24, 1900, he was appointed government assessor on April 5, 1900.

In the summer of 1900, Busch visited several industrial areas in Great Britain , including a. London and Edinburgh . In 1901 he took leave of absence and worked as a trainee at the Norddeutsche Bank in Hamburg , the Hamburg Stock Exchange and the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Berlin . During this time he dealt with economics and learned the English language .

District Administrator

In March he was assigned to the Herford District Office as a government assessor. Here he was responsible for social security and military replacement business as well as police matters. In April 1902 he became a department head at the high presidium of the province of Posen . From November 1904 he was responsible for national political affairs in the Ministry of the Interior.

On June 17, 1905, the provisional government, he was initially the district office Hoerde in Arnsberg transmitted. On December 13 of the same year he was appointed district administrator . He mediated several strikes in the mining sector , campaigned for an improvement in poultry farming and the electricity and water supply, and for the establishment of public libraries .

After working for four years in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, he was accepted on July 1, 1911 as Geh. Upper Government Councilor (initially provisional) District Administrator of the Niederbarnim district . He fought against the Greater Berlin Act and promoted the improvement of gas, water and energy supplies. The outbreak of World War I put an end to these activities. Instead, war relief had to be organized and the work of various charities coordinated. In 1916, Busch and his colleague in the Teltow district, Adolf von Achenbach, wrote a memorandum to the Ministry of the Interior in which they criticized the system of self-government in cities, districts and communities. As a result, the Prussian County Council was founded.

Wrong place left and right

On August 30, 1917, Busch took up the post of Undersecretary in the Ministry of Finance. He made friends with Johannes Popitz .

In the Weimar Republic he did not follow Wolfgang Kapp's personal invitation to participate in the Kapp Putsch . Nevertheless, he was put into temporary retirement on April 16, 1920 because of his monarchist attitude because of "disloyalty" . In 1933 he was forced by the National Socialists to sell his estate in Büssow near Friedeberg (Neumark) . He moved with his wife to Tutzing on Lake Starnberg . Here he wrote his autobiography "From the life of a royal Prussian district administrator" from 1933 to 1936. The historian Julius H. Schoeps , the grandson of Felix Busch, published the edition with comments in 1991.

Honorary positions

Bitter end

On February 14, 1906, Busch Marie Fanny married Margarete von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy . The daughters Charlotte Busch and Dorothee Busch emigrated in the period of National Socialism .

Busch took his own life by jumping from a moving train near Tutzing. Three days later, on August 19, 1938, he was buried in Tutzing.

Honors

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Buschallee. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64 , 872
  3. ↑ a b territorial.de
  4. ^ Theodor Eschenburg : Review. In: Die Zeit , No. 27/1992
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedländer, Felix Emil Johannes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1938
Place of death at Tutzing