Gerhard Lapp

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Gerhard Lapp (born June 24, 1891 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † October 11, 1977 in Hanover ) was a German ministerial director in the postal service .

Lapp studied in his home town of Königsberg law and entered in 1911, as previously his father, the fraternity Germania Konigsberg in. During the First World War he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class .

1923 doctorate Lapp with the dissertation The German postal rates on domestic services since the beginning of World War II until the beginning of 1922, its legal basis and its development in Kaliningrad for Dr. jur. In 1934 he was accepted into the postal service, from which he was dismissed in 1936 due to his Jewish origins.

From 1945 to 1947 Lapp was President of the Hanover Postal Directorate , after which he moved to the main administration for the postal and telecommunications system of the United Economic Area , in 1950 he became head of Department I (postal and motor vehicles) of the Federal Postal Ministry , and in 1955 he was retired . For his services he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star .

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  1. Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 286.