Hans Joachim von Graevenitz

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Hans Joachim Heinrich von Graevenitz (born July 27, 1874 at Gut Schilde, today part of Weisen , Prignitz district , Brandenburg ; † November 27, 1938 at Gut Quetz, today Quetzdölsdorf , part of Zörbig , district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld ) was a German administrative lawyer , Imperial German Undersecretary of State and Head of the Reich Chancellery , District Administrator of the Westprignitz District from 1906 to 1917 and Squire of Quetz.

origin

He came from an old Altmark noble family and was the son of the landowner Heinrich von Graevenitz (1842-1927), Lord of shields and Erbtruchsess the Electorate , and the Bertha von Ammon (1844 to 1929).

Life

Until the age of 14, Hans-Joachim v. Graevenitz took private lessons, then attended the Roßleben monastery school and passed the Abitur here in autumn 1893. Von Graevenitz then studied 6 semesters of law and political science in Lausanne, Göttingen and Marburg, interrupted by a one year break due to a lung disease. In 1895 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . Due to illness, he did not do military service.

After passing the legal state examination and subsequent legal traineeship, Graevenitz worked as a laborer at the Minden district office and then worked from 1904 to 1906 as a scientific assistant in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, and finally from 1906 to 1917 as the district administrator of the Westprignitz district based in Perleberg . From 1915 to 1917 he worked at the same time as a consultant in the "Reichsgetreidestelle" and the "Reichsstelle für Edisefette" in Berlin and then in the war food office under Georg Michaelis .

When Michaelis surprisingly advanced to the position of German Chancellor on July 14th, 1917, the appointment of v. Graevenitz as Imperial German Undersecretary and Head of the Reich Chancellery under Reich Chancellor Georg Michaelis . After his resignation, initially made available, he took over the management of the Reichs Grain Office from 1918 to 1919 . Then Hans Joachim v. Graevenitz retire. His office as district administrator of the Westprignitz district was Hans Joachim v. Graevenitz, more nominally in the last few years, until his appointment as Undersecretary of State. In the office of district administrator of the Westprignitz district he was followed by his younger brother Dr. Hartwig v. Graevenitz after. Graevenitz was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Marriage and offspring

Graevenitz married on August 26, 1910 at Gut Rühstädt (Westprignitz district) Magdalene von Jagow (born August 26, 1890 in Rühstädt; † April 4, 1990 in Brühl ), the daughter of the royal Prussian Rittmeister a. D. Günther von Jagow (1847–1928), Fideikommissherr of Rühstädt and others as well as hereditary hunter master of the Kurmark, and Countess Anna von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky (1855–1922). He was related by marriage to the younger brother of his father-in-law, Gottlieb von Jagow , who was German Foreign Minister from 1913 to 1916.

Children The couple v. Graevenitz had the son Hellmuth (1911-1947), who perished in Soviet captivity in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald , the former Buchenwald concentration camp , and a daughter Annaluise (* 1913).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45 , 465
personal data
SURNAME Graevenitz, Hans Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graevenitz, Hans Joachim Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, District Administrator of the Westprignitz district
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Schilde, now part of Weisen , Prignitz district , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1938
Place of death Good Quetz