Georg Bodenstein

Georg Bodenstein (born August 17, 1860 in Kolberg , † June 16, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official.

biography

After studying law in Heidelberg and earning a doctorate as a Dr. jur. In 1888 he became a court assessor and then in 1891 a government assessor and as such became a member of the Poznan Railway Directorate in 1895 . In the following years he was promoted to government councilor in 1897 and to senior councilor in Essen in 1908.

In 1913 he was appointed President of the Poznan Railway Directorate. After working there for three years, he then became President of the Königsberg Railway Directorate in 1916 . In 1918, Bodenstein was appointed President of the Railways General Management in Alsace-Lorraine and at the same time promoted to the Real Secret Upper Government Council .

With his appointment as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Public Works of Prussia in 1919, he was also the President of the State Railway Council of the Prussian State Railways . In 1920 he moved to the Reich Ministry of Transport as State Secretary . In this role he was not only head of the Prussia-Hesse branch, but also head of the ministry's peace office. After four years as State Secretary, Bodenstein retired in 1924.

Bodenstein was a member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg . In 1921, together with Friedrich Wilhelm Gutbrod , a ministerial director and later state secretary of the Reich Ministry of Transport, he became a member of the lawless society in Berlin , a " society club " whose members were prominent personalities from the intellectual, artistic and military elite. He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Web links

• Georg Bodenstein in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lawless Society in Berlin .