Friedrich Boden (diplomat)

Friedrich Boden (born August 23, 1870 in Braunschweig , † March 21, 1947 in Berlin ) was an envoy in the service of the Duchy of Braunschweig , the Free State of Braunschweig and other countries.

Live and act

The son of the director of a sugar refinery in Braunschweig studied law at the universities of Freiburg and Berlin after attending school in Braunschweig . In Freiburg he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . He passed the legal assessor exam in 1896. After his first professional positions in the judiciary and administration, in 1906 he became the authorized representative of the Duchy of Braunschweig at the Federal Council as a secret government councilor . This made Boden the youngest member of the council. In 1914 he was promoted to envoy and plenipotentiary minister and in 1915 to the real secret council with the title "Excellency".

In addition to the diplomatic representation of Braunschweig, Boden also became the voting representative of the State of Anhalt in the Federal Council in 1914 . In addition, he represented the interests of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Principality of Lippe on the council during the First World War until 1916 . After the end of the First World War, he worked from November 1918 as a representative of the Free State of Braunschweig to the Reich government and from August 1919 as a permanent deputy representative of the states of Braunschweig and Anhalt in the Reichsrat . At the same time he was the joint envoy from Braunschweig and Anhalt and (1921/1923) from Mecklenburg-Strelitz to the State of Prussia. In a part-time position he was a member of the administrative board of the Deutsche Reichspost and a member of the Reichsdisciplinary Court . On April 1, 1934, Boden retired.

In the literature, Bodens diplomatic merits are mentioned, among other things, in the regulation of the succession to the throne in Braunschweig in 1912/13 and the reconciliation between Hohenzollern and Welfen. As the “doyen of the inner German corps”, he had found “high recognition”. Boden was also a "committed promoter" of the interests of the Braunschweig industry. The Technical University of Braunschweig gave ground on June 5, the 1929 Dr.-Ing. E. h.

In addition to his importance as the diplomatic representative of Braunschweig and other countries, Friedrich Boden gained prominence through his role in the naturalization of Adolf Hitler: On the instructions of the Braunschweig State Ministry on February 25, 1932, Boden accepted Adolf Hitler's oath of service as Brunswick government councilor on February 26, 1932 .

Boden's grave is in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 15 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller: Boden, Friedrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 74 f . (with portrait)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 47 , 527.
2. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller: Boden, Friedrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 74 .
3. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller: Boden, Friedrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 74 f .
4. ^ Website of the city of Braunschweig - Stadtchronik Braunschweig (chronicle entry April 1, 1934) ( memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on m.braunschweig.de
5. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller: Boden, Friedrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 75 .
6. ↑ See Hans-Ulrich Ludewig: The First World War and the Revolution (1914-1918 / 19). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schild: The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , p. 920.
7. ↑ Inventory B2 - files of honorary doctors - Boden, Friedrich (* 1870) ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on biblio.tu-bs.de (PDF; 214 kB)
8. ^ Rudolf Morsey : Hitler as a Braunschweig government councilor. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. 8, No. 4, 1960, p. 442 ( PDF ); Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller: Boden, Friedrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 75 .