Hanns Seel

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Hanns Seel (born February 19, 1876 in Munich , † December 12, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and department head in the Reich Ministry of the Interior .

Studies and admission to civil service

As the son of Johann Baptist Seel and his wife Paula Gruber, he attended the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich until he graduated from high school in 1895 . He then studied law and economics at the University of Munich . In 1899 and 1903 he passed the 1st and 2nd state examinations for higher judicial and administrative service.

He did his one-year voluntary military service from 1899 to 1900. From 1904 he worked as a legal assistant in the finance department of the city of Munich . He was also appointed chairman of the trade court. He then took up employment as a government assessor for the government of Upper Bavaria .

He worked for the Munich Police Department in 1911. From 1914 to 1918 he served in the First World War . Most recently he was promoted to captain. When he became seriously ill, he was transferred to the Bavarian War Ministry . In March 1919 he resigned from the army and went to Dachau , where in 1919 he filled a position as district administrator.

Appointment to the government in Berlin

In June 1920 he joined the Reich Ministry of Labor , where he was promoted to senior government councilor in 1921 and to ministerial councilor in 1923 . From 1924 he was chairman of the VI pension office in Berlin. From 1928 to 1929, he was the representative of the Reich Savings Commission to review the Württemberg state administration.

In 1932 he was on the board of the pension office IV in Berlin. On March 22, 1933, he was appointed to the Reich Ministry of the Interior (RIM), where he was appointed department head on February 20, 1934 and as a member of the NSDAP for civil servants in the Gau Groß- Berlin the NSDAP was responsible. He also worked as a member of the Reich Disciplinary Court and as an assessor at the Reich Supply Court.

He belonged to the Society for the Study of Fascism . He was a lecturer and member of the advisory board at the Administration Academy in Berlin. He was also a member of the Reich Association of German Officials (RDB), the National Socialist War Victims Supply (NSKOV) and the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ).

In 1935 he was promoted to ministerial director. In Berlin he lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Prinzregentenstr. 66 and finally at Kaiserallee 22.

Commentary on the Nazi professional civil service

Seel is best known for his commentary on the Law to Restore the Professional Civil Service of 1933. In the introduction to this commentary he wrote: " As difficult as the interference ... in the legal sphere of the officials concerned is, such interference is inevitable for reasons of the state's welfare ".

He expressed understanding about the stipulation that only officials of “ Aryan ” descent were allowed to stay on duty, because these stipulations did not arise from his “ feelings of hatred, but rather necessary and required by the increasingly threatening foreign infiltration of the German people . “For the Jewish officials and their families, he showed the appearance of sympathy:“ Unfortunately, it cannot be avoided that so many officials and their families are seriously affected. "

For the other members of the civil service, he expressed what National Socialism expected when the “ cleaning of the ranks ” of the civil service was completed: “ .. if the pests ... are removed, the civil service will be back in its old purity and goodness . "

Fonts

  • The Military Supply Constitution , 1919
  • The reorganization of civil service law , Berlin 1933
  • Renewal of the civil service , Berlin 1933
  • The official in the New Reich with Arthur B. Krause, Berlin 1933
  • The right of the national revolution with Arthur B. Krause, Berlin 1933
  • Law to restore the professional civil service: of April 7, 1933 in the version of June 23, 1933 and related laws together with the latest implementation ordinances explained by Hanns Seel Berlin 1933
  • German civil service law with Hans Lammers, Hans Heinrich, Hans Pfundtner and Fritz Müssigbrodt, Berlin 1938
  • The civil servant in the new state

Web links

literature

  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt-Verlag, Kiel 1985, ISBN 3-88741-117-X .
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? . Berlin 1935
  • Hartmut Jäckel: People in Berlin - the fates of known and unknown personalities from the last telephone directory of the old Reich capital in 1941 . Stuttgart 2000
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1894/95.
personal data
SURNAME Seel, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and department head in the Reich Ministry of the Interior
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1941
Place of death Berlin