Günter Bachmann

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Günter Bachmann (born March 21, 1915 in Katowice ; † May 15, 2011 in Bornheim ) was a German, lawyer and civil servant .

Life

Bachmann, whose ancestors came from Upper Silesia , was the son of a gynecologist . His mother died when he was three years. After graduating from high school , he studied law in Innsbruck and Breslau from 1932 at the humanistic grammar school in Katowice . In 1939 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. Shortly afterwards he passed the second state examination and was drafted into the Wehrmacht . As a lieutenant , he was taken prisoner by the British and returned to Germany from Italy in 1946 .

In 1947/48 Bachmann worked as a public prosecutor and district judge in Mannheim . From 1948 to 1950 he worked for the Gehlen Organization , the predecessor of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). The BND office was disguised as an “industrial research institute”, was based in Munich and, above all, maintained business contacts. In 1950 Bachmann moved to the Mannheim District Court and in 1951 as a District Judge at the Mannheim District Court .

From 1952 to 1968 he worked in the Federal Chancellery . From 1952 to 1955 he worked as an assistant in Department 5 and dealt with fundamental questions and cabinet matters of the Foreign Office, the Ministry of the Interior / Department of Internal Security, the Federal Ministry of Health and the Blank Office. In addition, the department was the contact point for the Gehlen organization and, after it was taken over in federal service, was responsible for the BND. From 1955 to 1958, Bachmann was head of Section 5 before he became Konrad Adenauer's personal advisor in May 1958 . From 1959 to 1964 he again took over the management of Section 5; from 1960 to 1964 he was also head of Section 4 with responsibility for cabinet matters of the Federal Ministry of Defense and the management of the Federal Defense Council . From 1964 to 1969 he was head of subdivision  I A (from 1966 designated III A) for military and civil defense . In 1969 he moved to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and took over the management of Department  D ( civil service law and other personnel law in the public service ).

From 1970 to 1984 Günter Bachmann was director of the German Caritas Association in Bonn. From 1982 to 1986 he was in charge of the 87th to 89th  Catholic Days in Düsseldorf , Munich and Aachen .

Günter Bachmann was invested in the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in 1975 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (= Jost Dülffer, Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Wolfgang Krieger, Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]: Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Researching the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 234 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Knoll: The Bonn Federal Chancellery. Organization and functions from 1949–1999 . 1st edition. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-531-14179-4 , pp. 92 .
personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2011
Place of death Bornheim