Gustav Simon (District Administrator)

Gustav Simon

Gustav Simon (born February 6, 1878 in Rauschenberg ; † February 25, 1962 in Bonn ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Simon came from the old Königsberg family of assimilated Jews who had produced the banker Walter Simon . His parents were the consul Gustav Simon and his wife Therese geb. Kusserow. In Simon's year of birth they returned to Königsberg i. Pr. Back.

Gustav Simon attended the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium there . After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Kaiser-Wilhelms University of Law. At the same time he served as a one-year volunteer with the 2nd Rhenish Hussar Regiment No. 9 . From 1897 he was active for three semesters in the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg . He moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University , where he also became active in the Corps Franconia Munich (1898) on October 27, 1898 . After two semesters, it was inactivated on July 24, 1899 . He moved to the local Albertus University in Königsberg and completed his legal traineeship at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court in 1901 . The University of Leipzig doctorate him in 1902 to Dr. iur.

In 1906 he passed the exam to become a government assessor in Berlin . As such, he was initially in the district of Waldenburg (Schles) . In 1908 he came to the Upper Presidium of the Province of Silesia and in 1914 succeeded Walter Römhild as District Administrator in the Karthaus district . At the beginning of World War I he was drafted into the German Army . He fought on the Eastern Front in a wide variety of roles, most recently as a captain and commander of a fleet column . He received the Iron Cross 2nd class. In mid-1915 it was made indispensable.

When his Kashubian district fell to Poland after the First World War, Simon became provisional in January 1920, and in November 1920 he became the district administrator in the Heiligenbeil district . On August 15, 1926 he became administrative director of the district committee of the government in Königsberg . In 1928 he married Edith geb. Rips. According to the law to restore the civil service , he was forced to retire at the end of 1935. In addition to harassment and defamation, there was an air raid on Königsberg in August 1944 . He found refuge in the Heiligenbeil district and - after permission to leave East Prussia - in the Bavarian Forest in Viechtach . There he witnessed the invasion of the United States Army . At the end of 1945 he moved to Stadtoldendorf , where one of his two stepdaughters lived. From October 1946 he was in charge of denazification and appeal committees. In Bonn since 1951, from November 1953 he organized monthly meetings between Strasbourg rhenans and Munich francs. These "Simon Evenings" continued after his death.

Gravestone (There is a notice from the cemetery administration on the grave that the grave should be cleared.), September 2018

From 1930 he headed the Franconian group "North-East" based in Königsberg. Notwithstanding this, on October 8, 1935, he had returned the Franconian band; because the fulfillment of the National Socialist demands on the Kösener Corps made his membership impossible. He had also explained the return of the tape to his mother corps; But Rhenania refused to accept the offer and dissolved. Simon took up the Frankenband again in 1949. On July 8, 1961, he was still wearing the corps bow of Hansea Bonn . Simon died in 1962 at the age of 84 and was buried in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (hall 59 U No. 26),

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lohmer, Gerd (deutsche-biographie.de)
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 100/182; 106/647.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} personnel records in the archive of the Corps Franconia Munich.
4. ^ Dissertation: Disciplinary criminal law of private docents in Prussia .
5. ↑ ^{a b} District of Heiligenbeil (territorial.de)
6. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 60/582