Friedrich Kiefer (lawyer)

Friedrich Kiefer (born September 14, 1879 - † July 11, 1952 ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Career

Kiefer was born as the son of a timber merchant and haulage contractor. He received his doctorate in law from the University of Würzburg in 1913 . In 1925, as Ministerialrat, he took over the management of the legal department in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior. Presumably after an arrangement with the coalition partner DDP , he was appointed office director by President Eugen Bolz in 1931 . After the National Socialists came to power, the Upper Government Councilor Gustav Himmel took his place on April 10, 1933 .

From 1940 to 1944 Kiefer was president of the Stuttgart building fire insurance company. After the end of the Second World War, he served from the beginning of 1947 as a ministerial director in the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Württemberg-Baden . He retired on January 31, 1950.

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works

• Payments to the disadvantage of the creditors - Leipzig: Hirschfeld, 1913
• The German municipal code of January 30, 1935 - Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1937

literature

• Michael Ruck : Corps Spirit and State Consciousness: Civil Servants in the German Southwest 1928 to 1972. - Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Kiefer in the catalog of the German National Library