Ferdinand Mackensen von Astfeld

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Ferdinand Fritz Paul Mackensen von Astfeld (born March 13, 1883 in Strasbourg in Alsace , † October 17, 1977 in Iserlohn ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer . He worked, among other things, as district administrator and as vice-president of the high presidium of the province of Pomerania .

Life

From 1907 he worked as a government trainee, from 1911 as a government assessor and assistant to the district administrator in Düsseldorf . From 1914 to 1918 he did military service and from 1918 was employed by the government in Düsseldorf as a councilor. In 1919 he worked as a district administrator in the Ohlau district . From 1924 to March 15, 1933 Mackensen von Astfeld was government director in the government in Köslin . On March 15, 1933, he was appointed Vice President of the High Presidium of the Province of Pomerania . After the President Carl von Halfern Had been deposed on October 1, 1933, Mackensen von Astfeld continued the current affairs of the upper president, but had "no official authority" in this position.

He was a member of the NSDAP , Gaufach leader of the professional group for administrative officials in the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) and national leader of the Volksbund for Germanism abroad .

His wife Stephanie Mackensen von Astfeld , née von Renvers, was a committed member of the Confessing Church during the Nazi era .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Noble houses B Volume XXI, Volume 108 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1995, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 312.
  2. Thorsten Hinz : The party makes the state . In: Baltic Studies Volume 92 NF, 2006, ISSN  0067-3099 , p. 123.