Georg Kautz

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Georg Kautz (1913)

Georg Kautz (born August 21, 1860 in Wiersbau, Neidenburg district , Masuria , † January 13, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official. Most recently he was Ministerial Director in the Reich Office of the Interior and in the Reich Treasury.

Life

After attending grammar school in the Hohenstein Ordensburg , he studied law and economics from 1877 at the Albertus University of Königsberg , the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg , the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . In 1882 he was in Leipzig magna cum laude for Dr. iur. PhD . In 1882/83 he served as a one-year volunteer in the East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 16 in Königsberg. From 1884 to 1887 he was a trainee lawyer at the regional court in Königsberg i. Pr. And Assessor at the government in Gdansk . In October 1888 he married Klara Engler from Berent in Kashubia . The children Georg (* 1890), Hildegard married. Husslein (* 1893) and Günther (* 1898).

Career

Kautz became district administrator in the Konitz district in 1890 . In 1894 he came to the Berlin police headquarters , in 1899 to the Reich Office of the Interior . In 1902 he became head of department for sea and inland shipping. In 1906 he represented the law on the expansion of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in the Reichstag . As the successor to Karl Löwe , he was President of the Imperial Canal Office in Kiel from 1907 to 1915 . He led the first canal expansion. In the Weimar Republic he was President of the Reich Committee for the Reconstruction of the Merchant Fleet from 1918 to 1923 and President of the Inland Shipping Peace Delegation in Paris from 1921 to 1923. He was a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG (Deschimag) in Bremen, founded in 1926, and chairman of the supervisory board of the Neptun shipyard in Rostock. He wrote several administrative manuals and legal commentaries. He was also editor of the magazine for police and administrative officials (from 1911) and co-editor of the sheets for health care (1895-1923). He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Corps student

Kautz's invitation (1925)
Kautz in the general committee of the VAC

Kautz became active in the Corps Thuringia Leipzig in 1879 . During the First World War , from 1915 to 1918, he was chairman of the general committee of the VAC (Kiel). In Frankfurt am Main in 1921 he was involved in the reconstitution of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia, which had been expelled from Strasbourg . Like three old men from other corps, he received the Old Alsatian ribbon on July 4, 1921. As chairman of the AHSC Berlin he sat from 1920 to 1924 in the Berlin general committee of the VAC . He was an honorary member of Thuringia Leipzig.

Honors

Incomplete list

Fonts

  • The Prussian system of direct taxes . Berlin 1889.
  • The Reichsgewerbeordnung including the laws on the Prussian trade being , 4th edition Berlin 1895 (first by Julius Illing ).
  • Manual for preuss. Administrators in the Service of the State, Local Associations, Corporations and Business People , 2 Vols., 6th Edition. Berlin 1895 (founded by Julius Illing); 11th edition and title manual for administration and economy in the Reich and in Prussia , 4 vols. Berlin 1931–1933.
  • Compulsory administrative proceedings for the collection of sums of money , legal commentary, Berlin 1896; 8th edition, Berlin 1955 (revised by Julius Riedwald and Max Leisner).
  • with Friedrich Kunze: The legal principles of the Royal Prussian Higher Administrative Court , 3rd edition Berlin 1897/1898 (founded by Karl Parey, revised).
  • with Franz Appelius : Prussian local authority law . Berlin 1900.
  • with Ferdinand A. Gebhardt, Fritz Ehrhardt and Josef P. Lutz: Das Prussische Rechtsbuch , 2 vol., Berlin 1900.
  • The Prussian laws regarding service income, pension and widow and orphan pensions for elementary school teachers , Berlin 1900.
  • with Paul Wiedenfeld: Handbook for Prussian police and administrative officials. A reference work , 2 vols. Berlin 1905.
  • with Reinhard Kappes and Walter Lottner: Handbuch der Reichszollverwaltung , 3 vols. Berlin 1932–1936; 2nd edition and title Handbuch der Reichsfinanzverwaltung , 2 vol., Berlin 1941–1942; continued as a manual of the Federal Customs Administration , Frankfurt / M. 1950 ff. (By HG Rahn)

editor

  • Journal for police and administrative officials (from 1911)
  • Healthcare Papers (1895-1923)

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leaders. Life courses of German business personalities . Hamburg 1929.
  • Old Prussian Biography , Vol. 4, Marburg 1995.
  • Patrick Wagner: Peasants, Junkers and officials - local rule and participation in Eastern Elbe in the 19th century . Göttingen 2005, pp. 437-439.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 5. Munich 2006, p. 548.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dissertation: Acquiring fruit from the fruit of someone else's cause
  2. FAR 16
  3. Kösener corps lists 1910, 155/144
  4. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 31/142.
  5. ^ Matriculation of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia from 1880–2015, undated, undated, p. 164
predecessor Office successor
Max Urlichs VAC chairman
1915–1918
Werner Wedemeyer