Hans Busch (State Secretary)

Hans Busch (born November 8, 1896 in Lutzerath ; † July 22, 1972 ) was a German civil servant and both State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor and in the Federal Ministry for Economic Property of the Federation .

Life

After the Abitur studied Busch law and, after passing the two legal state exams and graduation to doctor of law in 1925 official in the district office in Moers .

In 1931 he was initially employed by the Prussian Ministry of People's Welfare and after its dissolution in 1932 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior . He was then a civil servant in the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1934 to 1937 and then until the end of the Second World War in 1945 in the Düsseldorf Regional Council , although he did his military service in the Wehrmacht between 1939 and 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War he was first a civil servant with the Upper President of the Rhine Province , before he was assistant to the city of Cologne for social administration and youth care between 1946 and 1950 . He then became a civil servant in the Ministry of Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1951, where he was State Secretary between 1953 and March 1957.

In March 1957 he was initially appointed permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor, but already in November 1957 he switched to the Federal Ministry for Economic Property as a permanent state secretary and retained this function until he retired in 1961. He was not just one the closest employee of the then Federal Ministers Hermann Lindrath and Hans Wilhelmi , but also chairman of the supervisory boards of Volkswagen AG and Salzgitter AG .

Since 1919 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Bavaria Bonn .

Web links and sources

• Biography in the German Federal Archives
• Hans Busch's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Ministry of Labor 1933–1945