Franz Erich Caspar

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Franz Erich Caspar (born September 7, 1849 in Stralsund , † June 24, 1927 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar and ministerial official.

Life

After studying law and political science , he became a trainee lawyer in Greifswald , Berlin in 1869 and then in Paderborn from 1874 to 1875 . In 1875 he became a judge and assistant judge at the Berlin district court, before he became a district judge in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1877 . In the same year he went to Potsdam as a government assessor and then in 1880 as a laborer in the recently founded Reich Office of the Interior , in which he was promoted to government council and permanent laborer in 1881 . Between 1885 and 1889 he was employed as a Privy Councilor and member of the Reich Insurance Office, which had also recently been founded .

In 1889 he returned as a lecturer in the Reich Office of the Interior, in which he was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council in 1892. In this function he was also a member of the Federal Office for Homeland Affairs from 1894 to 1896 and, in 1896, chairman of the Oberseeamte. In 1901 he was appointed director of the Reich Office of the Interior and in 1912 he was appointed to the Real Privy Council with the right of address "Excellency".

On November 2, 1917, he was appointed Undersecretary of State in the Reich Economics Office . Almost a year later, in October 1918, he became Undersecretary in the Reich Labor Office .

After the reorganization as the Reich Labor Ministry , he became State Secretary there on March 21, 1919 . In July 1919 he retired and was replaced as State Secretary by Hermann Geib .

Franz Caspar was an honorary doctor of law.

His denomination was Jewish. His father was the court notary public Eduard Caspar (1816-1891). Franz Caspar was born with Anna Vonhoff married. They had a daughter.

Franz Erich Caspar died in Berlin in 1927 at the age of 77. His grave is in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Works

  • Social Security Reform , 1920.

literature

source

  • Acta Borussica. P. 370. (PDF; 2.9 MB)
  • Florian Tennstedt: Portraits and sketches on the history of social policy in Germany. Self-published, Kassel 1983, DNB 209779004 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 300.