Hans Egidi

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Hans Egidi (born June 2, 1890 in Crossen an der Oder , † December 3, 1970 in Munich ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Hans Egidi was the son of a pastor and graduated from high school in 1908 at the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium in Berlin . From 1908 he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the VDSt Berlin . He was a one year old volunteer with the 2nd Guards Regiment on Foot .

After the state examination and the First World War , in which he was seriously wounded, he worked in the Reich administration. In 1920, despite his young age, he was appointed district administrator in the Ostprignitz district in Brandenburg . This post he held until 1933. After the takeover of the Nazis , he was removed from office for political reasons - he brought the unauthorized hoisted in his office swastika flag down again. He was employed as a competent administrative officer, however, first in Schneidemühl and then in Erfurt as Vice President of the Government. After 1938 in the Kristallnacht had parked police officers to protect Jewish businesses, they pushed him how many dissident officers to a post in the Court of Auditors from Potsdam. In 1922 he married Hildegard Viebig, with whom he had three daughters.

After the Second World War , he became one of the founders of the CDU in Potsdam . From 1946 to 1948 he was chairman of the CDU Potsdam and member of the state board of the Brandenburg CDU. In the state elections in 1946 , he was elected to the Brandenburg state parliament for the CDU . In 1946 he took over the management of the financial administration in Brandenburg.

Hans Egidi opposed the attempts by SED and SMAD to bring the Brandenburg CDU into line. This conflict escalated after the SMAD had deposed the chairman of the Eastern CDU, Jakob Kaiser, in December 1947 . Hans Egidi refused to sign the declaration submitted by SMAD, according to which he had distanced himself from Kaiser. On the contrary: Egidi spoke out in public for Kaiser. In January 1948 he was arrested by the Soviets. After intensive efforts by state chairman Wilhelm Wolf and state parliament member Frank Schleusener at the SED leadership, Egidi was released again and fled to West Berlin .

In the Federal Republic of Germany he was involved in the CDU in exile and became Vice President of the Lower Saxony State Audit Office in Hanover . Gustav Heinemann , then Minister of the Interior, brought him in 1949 as Ministerial Director and Head of Department I (Constitution, Administration, Public Security) in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , where he was to set up the security organs of the new Federal Republic. In this role he was significantly involved in the development of the Federal Border Police , the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . At the same time, Egidi was an influencing agent of the Gehlen Organization (Org.) Of the first order. Not only did he provide important information about decisions in the ministry, but he had also declared himself ready to take into account the wishes of the org. When filling posts for the German security authorities.

In 1955 Egidi was appointed President of the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin. Upon reaching the age limit, Egidi resigned from this office in 1958.

In 1955 Egidi joined the lawless society in Berlin and was also elected chairman of the Association for Germanness Abroad in 1959.

Honors

literature

  • Egidi, Hans , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 89-91.
  • Marc Zirlewagen : Hans Egidi. In: Marc Zirlewagen (Ed.): 1881–2006 - 125 Years of Associations of German Students Vol. 1: A historical review. Pressburg 2006, pp. 207-208.
  • Michael Richter: Die Ost-CDU 1948–1952 between resistance and conformity, 2nd edition, Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0945-2 , pages 48–49, 409
  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber [Eds.]: SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , page 892.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Thomas Wolf: The emergence of the BND. Structure, financing, control (=  Jost Dülffer , Klaus-Dietmar Henke , Wolfgang Krieger , Rolf-Dieter Müller [eds.]): Publications of the Independent Commission of Historians for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945–1968 . Volume 9 ). 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96289-022-3 , pp. 194 f .
  3. ^ Johanna Rakebrand: The legal man Ludwig Frege (1884–1964). Bielefeld 2019, p. 297.

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personal data
SURNAME Egidi, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Crossing the Oder
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1970
Place of death Munich