Hans Engel (State Secretary)

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Hans Alfred Engel (born November 17, 1887 in Magdeburg , † 1945 ) was a German ministerial official and state secretary .

biography

Hans Engel was born in Magdeburg as the son of the university professor Ernst Johann Jakob Engel and his wife Anna Mathilde Friederike. Born by Homeyer. He passed his Abitur in 1906 at the Realgymnasium Magdeburg, studied law and political science after attending school and was awarded a doctorate as a Dr. iur. and the First State Exam as a court clerk tätig.Kurz after completion of the second state exam as assessor he began his in April 1914 military service and was during the First World War, most recently flying officer. He was badly wounded in the Battle of the Marne.

After the end of the First World War, he entered the civil service as a government assessor in 1918 and was appointed to the government council in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture in 1920 and was an employee of this ministry until 1933. Between 1924 and 1935 he was a member of the organization Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . In 1925 he was promoted to the higher government council and to an employee in the department for customs and trade contracts. In 1929 he was promoted to Ministerial Counselor.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he moved to the Reich Ministry of Labor in 1933 , where he was ministerial director, initially head of Department II ( social insurance , welfare ) and later head of Department IV ( labor market ). After the resignation of State Secretary Johannes Krohn caused by the German Labor Front (DAF), he was also largely responsible for the Ministry's health policy from the summer of 1939 . Engel joined the NSDAP in April 1936.

During the Second World War , between 1940 and 1941 he was adjutant to the general of the aviators and Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands , Friedrich Christiansen .

In 1942 he returned to the Reich Labor Ministry , where he was appointed State Secretary and head of the International Social Policy group on March 5, 1942, as the successor to Friedrich Syrup . He held these offices until the end of the Second World War in 1945. Engel was also a member of the Academy for German Law .

Hans Engel presumably died in 1945 in the Soviet special camp No. 4 in Landsberg / Warthe.

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  1. ↑ Das Deutsche Führerlexikon 1934/1935 , Verlaganstalt Otto Stollberg, Berlin SW11, p. 111.
  2. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Register 1874-1903 [database on-line], Magdeburg Old Town Registry Office, Register Number 2892/1887
  3. ^ Winfried Suss: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939-1945 . In: Studies on Contemporary History . tape 65 . Oldenbourg, 2003, ISBN 3-486-56719-5 , pp. 52 (513 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Hans Engel | Independent Commission of Historians. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Helmut Heiber: Regesten . Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-50181-X , p. 795 (1095 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Eckart Reidegeld: State Social Policy in Germany: Volume II: Social Policy in Democracy and Dictatorship 1919-1945 . In: State social policy in Germany . tape 2 . Springer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-531-14943-1 , pp. 447, 505 (604 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Hans Engel | Independent Commission of Historians. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Engel, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Hans Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 1945