Günther Kraaz

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Günther Kraaz (born on 16th December 1908 in Bernau bei Berlin , died on 30th September 1996 in Trier ) was a German district administrator of the district Wittlich (1939-1945).

Life

The Protestant Günther Kraaz was the son of Oberregierungsrat Ernst Kraaz and his wife Dorothea Kraaz nee Schubert. After visiting the Realgymnasiums in Berlin and Neustettin, which he in 1927 with passing the matriculation examination was going on, he took one to 1931 study of law and political science at the Universities of Berlin and Göttingen on. When he passed the first state examination on August 1, 1931, he was appointed court trainee, and was appointed government trainee (October 16, 1933) in the Prussian administrative service, where, after successfully passing the second state examination, he was also appointed government assessor on April 23, 1936 . As a result, Kraaz initially found employment as an unskilled worker at the district administration in Siegen , and from August 1, 1937, with the government in Trier . There Kraaz was also appointed to the government council on April 1, 1939.

After the previous district administrator of the Saarburg district , Maximilian Freiherr von Mirbach, was put up for disposal on November 4, 1938 , Kraaz was to lead the administration there as a substitute from April 1939. In the end, however, he did not take up the job because instead of him, Norbert Hering was temporarily entrusted with the administration there in May 1939.

Kraaz finally succeeded Franz Bender on July 1, 1939, as acting district administrator for the Wittlich district . He, himself a member of the Center Party , had headed the administration of the district since 1924, but was put on hold on February 15, 1939 and finally transferred to the government in Minden on April 1, 1939 . Just over four months after Günther Kraaz had received his definitive appointment as district administrator in Wittlich, he was called up for military service on July 21, 1940 . He did not return to his office in Wittlich, until 1942 his colleague from Bernkastel, Hermann Middendorf, and then Aloys Castenholz, took his place there . Kraaz himself did not return from captivity until 1955 and with a document dated June 13, 1956, he returned to the service of the government in Trier as a councilor. There Kraaz was promoted to senior government councilor on August 1, 1956, and three years later, on June 1, 1959, to government director. With a certificate dated May 2, 1962, he finally retired. Günther Kraaz was married to Burgel Neuerburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 584 f .
  2. ^ A b Claudia Schmitt: Kraaz, Günther, District Administrator in: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 233.
  3. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 632 .
  4. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 524 .
  5. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 354 .
personal data
SURNAME Kraaz, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator for the district of Wittlich (1939–1945)
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernau near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1996
Place of death trier