Friedrich Landfried

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Opening of the 27th German East Fair in Königsberg on August 20, 1939; During a tour of the exhibition, from left to right: Arthur Greiser , Hans Pfundtner , Friedrich Landfried, Erich Koch

Friedrich Anton Walter Landfried (born September 26, 1884 in Heidelberg , † December 31, 1952 in Hamburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official. Between 1933 and 1943 he was State Secretary in the Reich Finance Ministry , and from 1939 also in the Reich Economics Ministry .

Life

Landfried came from an old Heidelberg factory owner family. His father was the Secret Commerce Councilor Wilhelm Landfried . After graduating from high school in Heidelberg, he joined the 1st Upper Alsace Field Artillery Regiment No. 15 of the Prussian Army in Strasbourg on October 1, 1903 as a one-year volunteer . At the same time enrolled himself as stud. iur. at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . He graduated from the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg and (despite his weak constitution) fought his first courses as a soldier. Dismissed as a lieutenant in the reserve , he became a senior in the winter semester of 1904/05 . As an inactive and MC at Vandalia Heidelberg , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , then to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He passed the First State Examination in Freiburg in 1908 and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . After he had passed the assessor examination in 1912 , he settled as a lawyer . When the First World War broke out , he reported to his old regiment. There he was last captain and battery leader . After the end of the war, as a characterized major, he was for a while at the Wuerttemberg Army Administration Office .

Prussia

Since he saw more opportunities to work in civil administration than in the small Reichsheer , he entered the civil service of the Free State of Prussia in 1920 . On July 1st he was accepted as a government assessor at the government in Koblenz . Six months later he came as a Government to Government in Kassel and after another four months as an assistant to the Prussian Interior Ministry. On November 1, 1923, he became chief finance officer in the Prussian Ministry of Finance. On July 31, 1932, he was appointed Ministerialrat , on October 1, 1932, Ministerialdirektor in the Prussian State Ministry and as a deputy full-time agent for the Reichsrat .

During the time of National Socialism he struck with Hermann Emil Kuenzer , Ulrich Kersten the Elder. Ä., Hermann Sabath and other influential Corps students in 1934 Max Blunck as leader of the KSCV. From 1933 to 1943 he was a member of the Prussian State Council and the General Council of the Four-Year Plan . After he retired in November 1943, he was head of the military administration in Italy for a few months . Paul Kanstein became his representative . When Landfried was appointed President of the Prussian State Bank in August 1944 , Otto Wächter followed him in Italy . At the same time he was deputy chairman of the examination committee for senior administrative officials. When asked by a brother in the corps about his service under National Socialism, Landfried said: “What will happen to Germany if all the old officials run away, if only the PGs rule and administer? Who or what should come after us? "

politic and economy

Landfried sat on the board of the German National People's Party and on many supervisory boards . He was chairman of the supervisory board of Saargruben AG , Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten AG , Hibernia AG and VEBA (1939–1945).

1945

After the Wehrmacht surrendered , the Allies took him into automatic arrest . From April 28 to May 9, 1947, he was imprisoned in a cell with Hans-Hilmar Staudte . On the night of May 10th, Landfried tried to take his own life by cutting open a wrist, whereupon Staudte woke up and bandaged him. Landfried was then transferred to the Garmisch internment hospital.

His wife, whom he married in 1945 as the sister of his Corpsbrüder Gallasch , was released in 1947. The Allied Courts and the Arbitration Chamber unreservedly recognized his work, which was aimed solely at the common good. Badly bad health, he moved with his wife to Hamburg, where he was involved in the Evangelical Aid Organization.

His work The Economic Policy of Frederick the Great and National Socialist Germany and the address published by Karl Georg Schmidt by the Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Cologne, Dr. KG Schmidt u. Lecture by the State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics, Dr. Fritz Landfried on the occasion of the Cologne autumn war fair in 1940 were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Corps student

Landfried was committed to his corps and the Kösener Seniors Convent Association . After the First World War he managed to move his corps from Strasbourg to Marburg and acquired a new corps house . When his corps was supposed to implement the Aryan paragraphs and expel some corps brothers, Landfried, as chairman of the old gentlemen's association - with full knowledge of the possible consequences - flatly refused to give in. After the Second World War he laid the foundations for Rhenania's reconstruction with a new constitution .

Since 1919 he has not been absent from any Congress or Congress of Representatives . He advised the Berlin and Frankfurt VAC board members and sat on numerous commissions of the KSCV. In the mid-1920s, when the Reichsgericht once again described the racket gauging as a “duel with deadly weapons”, the Prussian state government wanted to take action. A ministerial commission visited the university towns in order to discuss with the district administrators how one could use the state's means of power to suppress the "evil" most effectively. In Marburg Ernst August Schwebel was able to convince the commission of the inexpediency of police intervention. He immediately informed his corps brother Landfried, who, as a member of the KSCV's Committee of Ten, began negotiations with the Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun . He explained to him that despite police intervention, the fighting would continue, that is, only state authority would be ruined; in the student body the aversion to the Weimar Republic , which had just faded away, would revive. Braun bowed to the arguments and stopped all further measures. He just wished the weapons students would acknowledge it gratefully and not turn it out as a victory. This was complied with across the empire.

Awards

literature

  • Fritz Nachreiner: Dr. iur. Friedrich Walter Landfried Rhenaniae Strasbourg to Marburg (x) EM, b. 9/26/1884, rec. 1904, d. December 31, 1952 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 4 (1959), pp. 168–171.
  • Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 .
  • Reinhold Zilch (arr.), Acta Borussica, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Volume 12 / II 1925–1938. Olms, Hildesheim 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Acta Borussica, 12 / II, p. 626
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslist 1960, 100/216
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The “Thirtieth” in Historical Development and the 1969 Section of the Civil Code .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Fritz Nachreiner (1959), pp. 168–171.
  5. ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1926, p. 483.
  6. ↑ Bernhard Löffler (2002)
  7. ^ Bernhard Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Umbreit: The German Reich and the Second World War: 1942-1944 / 45. Organization and mobilization of the German sphere of influence. War Administration, Economy and Human Resources , Vol. 2 and 5, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1999, p. 72
  8. ^ Maximiliane Rieder: German-Italian economic relations: Continuities and breaks 1936–1957 , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37136-7 , p. 277
  9. ↑ Questioning of Dr. Hans Hilmar Staudte on May 16, 1947 in the morning by Robert Kempner , signature ZS-1545 1948/56 online (42 pages pdf), pp. 1–3
  10. ^ Association for the promotion of industrial diligence from 1821, Berlin 1940
  11. ↑ Trade fair u. Exhibition Society, Cologne 1940
  12. ↑ Literature to be sorted out (1946)
  13. ↑ Literature to be sorted out (1947)
personal data
SURNAME Landfried, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landfried, Friedrich Anton Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, administrative lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1952
Place of death Hamburg