Georg Lichtenberg (District Administrator)

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Georg Hermann Carl Ludwig August Lichtenberg (born August 7, 1886 in Hanover , † January 23, 1973 in Detmold ) was a German district administrator.

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After graduating from the Realgymnasium Hanover in 1906, Georg Lichtenberg studied law at the universities of Edinburgh , Heidelberg , Munich and Göttingen and on September 23, 1910 became a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Celle . He did his military service as a one-year volunteer from October 1, 1910 to September 30, 1911 with the Dragoon Regiment No. 16 and was deployed throughout the First World War as a soldier - most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve.

After the end of the war he returned to the administration and was assigned to the Minden District Office on February 23, 1920, and as a government assessor on July 20, 1920 . Here he became a member of the government on December 31, 1922, and on March 15, 1923, the assignment for the provisional administration of the Neustadt am Rübenberge district office came . The definitive appointment as district administrator was on September 4, 1923.

On October 18, 1933, he was put into temporary retirement under the law to restore the civil service , and was transferred to the government in Potsdam on November 1, 1933 . Here he was transferred to the government council on July 31, 1935, and as a senior councilor on August 1, 1942, to the city president of the Reich capital Berlin. The assignment for the representative administration of the Minden District Office came on May 15, 1944. He stayed here until his escape on April 4, 1945. He was arrested by the Americans and interned in the civil interrogation camp of the 9th US Army . After his release, he became a municipal officer in the administrative district of Minden . In the denazification process on July 4, 1947, he was exonerated and was then head of the district detection authority of the Detmold administrative district . Lichtenberg retired on August 31, 1951 and then acted as legal advisor in Detmold. From March 1, 1954 to the end of 1956, he acted as a representative of the interests of the compensation fund at the complaint committees for the equalization of burdens at the district president in Detmold and from February 1, 1957 to July 31, 1957, he was the representative of the interests of Compensation fund of the Detmold district true.

Until 1933 he was close to the right wing of the DDP . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP .

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 206f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).