Franz Kaufmann (lawyer)

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Franz Herbert Kaufmann (born January 5, 1886 in Berlin ; † February 17, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , Oranienburg ) was a lawyer, senior government councilor and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Denkstein am Haus, Kurfürstendamm 125, in Berlin-Halensee

Franz Kaufmann was born the son of a nationally minded lawyer of Jewish origin. However, he was raised and baptized as a Protestant.

Training and military service

In 1904 he put on French high school in Berlin graduated from high school and studied at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich , Halle and Berlin law . He finished his studies in 1908 with the first state examination in law . He then entered the legal clerkship , which was interrupted by his military service in 1909/1910. He passed the second state examination in 1914 and was drafted into the military. He took part in the First World War in the army and received several awards. In March 1918 he was seriously injured by a machine gun , the long-term effects of the injury (nervous cramps in the respiratory organs up to circulatory collapse ) were to accompany him for the rest of his life. At the end of 1918 he joined Franz Ritter von Epp in his disputes with the Munich Soviet Republic . He received his doctorate in 1919 from the University of Kiel .

Activity in the Weimar Republic

Kaufmann was first from 1919 to 1922 as a magistrate's assessor, then a magistrate and finally a senior magistrate at the magistrate and later district office of Berlin-Charlottenburg . He was then appointed to the Ministry of the Interior of Prussia as a local finance officer. Since he was clearly opposed to the social democracy , he was dismissed by Carl Severing after a short period of service. He then entered the Reich Ministry of Finance . He was there for six years as a financial equalization officer . During this time he married for the first time. In 1927 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council. In August 1928 he was transferred to the Reichsparkommissar . There he was engaged as general consultant with the examination of the Württemberg state administration and was thus the editor of the " Report of the Reich Savings Commissioner on the Administration of the State of Württemberg ". The principles developed in the report for the reorganization of administrative districts and municipal associations were later to influence administrative reforms in other countries. In 1931 Kaufmann was given the task of examining the entire administration of the city administration of Stuttgart from the Reichsparkommissar . In 1932/1933 he checked the city administration of Halle on behalf of the Reichsparkommissar .

time of the nationalsocialism

As a member of the Confessing Church, together with Helene Jacobs, Kaufmann built a network that provided shelter for persecuted Jews, supported them with food and helped them to escape with forged passports by the graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus . After a denunciation in 1943, he and many others were arrested and finally murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

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personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaufmann, Franz Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1944
Place of death Oranienburg