Georg Schmidt (politician, 1877)

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Georg Gustav Schmidt (born August 25, 1877 in Leipzig , † February 5, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German ministerial official and cooperative functionary. As a member of the NSDAP, he was Saxony's Minister of State for Labor and Welfare from 1933 to 1935.

Life

Georg Schmidt was the son of a Leipzig civil servant. He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig from 1889 to 1898 . He then studied law at the University of Leipzig and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In 1898 he became a member of the Normannia fraternity in Leipzig. He completed his legal clerkship at the district courts of Leipzig , Radeburg and Stollberg / Erzgeb. After the assessor examination, he settled as a lawyer in Dresden in 1906 and at the same time became managing director of the Saxon-Thuringian iron and steel trade association. On October 1, 1908, Schmidt joined the Saxon civil service as a government assessor at the State Statistical Office. This was followed by positions at the Ministry of the Interior , the State Insurance Agency and the Upper Insurance Office. From the end of 1917 he was director of the Oberversicherungsamt and the supply court in Chemnitz . In 1929 he became a senior councilor . Schmidt became a member of the NSDAP in February 1931 , after having previously worked as an appraiser for their Saxon parliamentary group . On May 6, 1933 he was appointed Saxon Minister of State for Labor and Welfare under Manfred von Killinger . After the Saxon Reich Governor Martin Mutschmann was also appointed Saxon Prime Minister by Adolf Hitler on February 28, 1935 , he dissolved the Ministry of Labor in March 1935 and incorporated it into the Ministry of Economic Affairs under his confidante Georg Lenk . He was Vice President of the Reich Insurance Office in Berlin and a member of the Reich Committee on Welfare for War Disabled and War Relatives.

literature

  • Andreas Wagner: Mutschmann against von Killinger. Lines of conflict between Gauleiter and SA leader during the rise of the NSDAP and the seizure of power in the Free State of Saxony . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2001, ISBN 3-934544-09-6 .
  • Mike Schmeitzner , Andreas Wagner (ed.): Of power and powerlessness. Saxon Prime Minister in the Age of Extremes 1919–1952 . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2006, ISBN 3-934544-75-4 .
  • German Guide Lexicon 1933/34 . Publishing house Otto Stollberg, Berlin 1934, p. 422.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 272.
  2. Famous Normans ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.normannia-zu-leipzig.de