Friedrich Freund

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Friedrich Theodor Freund (born November 9, 1861 in Breslau , † February 22, 1924 in Berlin ) was a Prussian civil servant. Most recently he was State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior. He played a key role in drafting the new democratic Prussian constitution and supported Interior Minister Carl Severing in reforming the administration and the police.

Time of the empire

Freund's father was a full professor of medicine in Breslau . He studied law in Strasbourg , Bonn and Berlin and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He then entered the Prussian judicial service and, from 1887, the administration of Alsace-Lorraine . A short time later he worked for the Berlin district committee. From 1888 he was a trial legal advisor for the Cologne district government . In the year he was appointed government assessor and in 1890 moved to Koblenz . From 1893 he was a councilor at the Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province and a deputy member of the district committee. In 1898 he became an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior with the rank of a secret government councilor. In 1901 he was appointed to the Secret Upper Government Council. In 1903, Freund became deputy president of the Prussian pension insurance institution. In 1911 he was appointed Ministerial Director with the rank of Real Secret Higher Government Council. From 1915 he was Deputy Prussian Plenipotentiary at the Federal Council .

Weimar Republic

Freund was liberal and joined the DDP after the November Revolution . In the course of the changes brought about by the October reforms , he became Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior on October 23, 1918. In 1920 he became State Secretary. Some time later he was State Secretary. Freund loyally supported the policy of Minister Wolfgang Heine and later Carl Severing. However, politicians from bourgeois parties and the press accused him of attempting to participate in the Kapp government . To this end, an official disciplinary procedure was initiated. After numerous witnesses among them had exonerated Victor Bredt Freund, Severing's proceedings were quickly discontinued due to obvious groundlessness. In addition to the appointed Commissioner Bill Drews, he worked out the core of the new democratic constitution.

In addition, from 1918 friend was chairman of the examination committee for senior civil servants. He also belonged to the commission for the simplification and standardization of the Reich administration. In 1922 he was the chief representative of Prussia in the negotiations for the creation of a Greater Hamburg . Freund was also chairman of the board of the Unemployment Society.

Freund was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

literature

  • Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry vol. 11 / II p. 573 digital version (PDF; 2.0 MB)
  • Stefan Naas: The Origin of the Prussian Police Administration Act of 1931: A Contribution to the History of Police Law in the Weimar Republic. Mohr Siebeck, 2003 p. 42 Partial digitization
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Alexander: Carl Severing. Social democrat from Westphalia with Prussian virtues. , Westfalen-Verlag, Bielefeld 1992 p. 128.
  2. ↑ Alexander, Severing, p. 132.
personal data
SURNAME Friend, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freund, Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1924
Place of death Berlin