Fritz Graf (District Administrator)

Fritz Graf (born on July 2, 1872 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); died on January 18, 1928 in Bonn ) was a Prussian administrative officer , district administrator of the Schwelm district and chief of police in Gelsenkirchen , where he also administered the district administration on a part-time basis.

Career

Graf studied law. In 1893, when he passed the first state examination in law , he was appointed court trainee , and after the second state examination, he was also appointed court assessor, but then did not remain in the Prussian judicial service, but later settled down as a lawyer in his hometown of Elberfeld ( characterization as a judiciary ) .

The doctor of law started his military service a few days after the beginning of the First World War in August 1914. From August 1, 1915 until almost two years after the end of the war, on July 31, 1920, he held the position of judge-martial . Immediately after his departure, he was temporarily commissioned with the administration of the district office of the Schwelm district from August 1 to December 6, 1920. From Schwelm he moved to Gelsenkirchen, where he was entrusted with the provisional administration of the position of the police chief from December 7, 1920, succeeding Alfred zur Nieden , who had been appointed to the state tax office in Mecklenburg-Lübeck . Associated with this task was the part-time administration of the district of Gelsenkirchen. After his appointment as police chief in Gelsenkirchen was not issued until June 4, 1921, he received his definitive appointment as district administrator of the Schwelm district on August 20, 1921, which he held until December 31 of the same year. In Schwelm he was followed by August Erdmann in both 1920 and 1921 .

Probably Graf was then as a Councilor to the Government Minden placed where it was conducted in August 1922 as a Government "in special position". Of Minden he arrived in September 1923, the Government Gumbinnen and in November 1924 was promoted to Senior Government to the Government Arnsberg , whose service area the circle Schwelm belonged. On January 1, 1927, Fritz Graf finally came to the Cologne government . He died on duty.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, historical work on Westphalian state research, economic and social history group, volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 161.