Friedrich August Knost

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Friedrich August Knost (born September 21, 1899 in Osnabrück ; † August 22, 1982 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer. In 1936 he wrote a commentary on the National Socialist Nuremberg Race Laws . From 1956 to 1964 he was President of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Braunschweig and from 1957 to 1980 President of the Federal Association of Registrars

Life

Knost attended high school in Osnabrück and then studied law and political science at the University of Göttingen from 1918 . He received his doctorate in 1921 and passed the first and in 1925 the second state law examination in the same year . In 1925/26 he worked in the Prussian administration at the district office in Merseburg and then until 1934 for the government in Kassel .

In May 1933 Knost became a member of the NSDAP . He worked in Berlin in 1934/35 and 1939–1943 in the Reich Department for Family Research , an office of the Reich Ministry of the Interior . Together with his superior, Ministerialrat Bernhard Lösener , he wrote a commentary on the Nuremberg Laws in 1936, which had been published five times by 1943. In the years 1936 and 1937–1939 Knost worked in the Prussian building and finance department. From 1943 to 1945 he worked in the government in Osnabrück.

In the denazification process in 1948, Knost was classified in category 5 (exonerated). This enabled him to be appointed government director in Lower Saxony in 1950 . In 1950 he was provisional head of the Stade administrative region as Vice President . An activity in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture was followed by the assumption of the office of curator of the University of Göttingen in 1954 . On November 23, 1955, he was appointed administrative president of the Braunschweig administrative district and on January 4, 1956, he was appointed to succeed Hubert Schlebusch, who died in 1955 . He held this office until it was officially adopted by Interior Minister Otto Bennemann on September 28, 1964. Ancillary and volunteer was Knost of 1958-1964 member of the Evangelical Synod , and 1965 president of the National Association of Braunschweig of the German Red Cross , 1956-1968 chairman and honorary member of the Brunswick Historical Society and from 1958 to 1965 the first Chairman of the resin Association for History and Archeology. From 1957 to 1980 he was President of the Federal Association of Registrars, which he had co-founded.

Honors

On July 4, 1959, Knost was appointed honorary senator of the TH Braunschweig together with Interior Minister Bennemann . He was an honorary citizen of the city of Bad Gandersheim as well as the holder of the silver plaque of the city of Goslar , the Beireis plaque of the Helmstedt district and the German Red Cross decoration . In 1943 he was awarded the Second Class War Merit Cross for his work in the Reichssippenamt. In September 1964 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

Works

  • Real estate in medieval Osnabrück . 1921 (dissertation).
  • Friedrich August Knost, Bernhard Lösener: The Nuremberg Laws on Imperial Citizenship and the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, together with the implementing ordinances and all relevant provisions and fee regulations . Berlin 1936.
  • Establishment and proof of parentage . Systematic presentation with all implementation provisions for proof of parentage and the fee regulations. Berlin 1939.
  • The new civil status and family law together with the nationality regulations for the new German territories . Berlin 1940.
  • Eulenspiegel. A timely consideration. Hertel, Bad Gandersheim 1964, DNB 452474442 .

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . 19th and 20th centuries. Hanover 1996, p. 328-29 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
  • Siegfried Maruhn: State servant in the unjust state . Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8019-5685-7 , pp. 253-276 (picture of life).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 321 .
  2. ↑ Stadtchronik Braunschweig, 1956 on braunschweig.de
  3. ↑ Stadtchronik Braunschweig, 1964 on braunschweig.de
personal data
SURNAME Knost, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knost, Friedrich A .; Knost, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1982
Place of death Osnabrück