Hans Meinzolt
Hans Meinzolt (born October 27, 1887 in Bächingen an der Brenz , † April 20, 1967 in Weßling ) was a German administrative lawyer , ministerial official and synodal in Bavaria .
Life
Meinzolt's parents were the Bächinger pastor and later dean of Nördlingen Christian Meinzolt and his wife Sophie nee. Naegelsbach. Among his seven siblings were the dean of Ingolstadt Gottfried Meinzolt, the head of the Inner Mission and Senator Friedrich Meinzolt and the co-founder of the Evangelical Lutheran Diakonissenanstalt Neuendettelsau Marie Meinzolt .
After attending the St. Anna grammar school in Augsburg , Hans Meinzolt studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . Like his seven brothers, he became active in the winter semester of 1906/07 at Uttenruthia in the Schwarzburgbund . He moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After the First World War at the war front had experienced his doctorate he in 1919 in Erlangen, Dr. iur.
After one year as a member of the government in the Sulzbach-Rosenberg district , he was appointed to the Bavarian Ministry of Culture in Munich, where he worked for ten years as a clerk for university affairs. In 1930 he became district administrator in Kirchheimbolanden and in 1933 became head of the legal department of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church council in Munich, to which he belonged as senior church councilor and vice-president.
At the end of May 1934 he took part in the Barmen Confession Synod, at which the Barmen Theological Declaration was adopted.
When in 1944 Pastor Karl Steinbauer had to answer to the military court in Berlin for allegedly defensive passages of a sermon , Meinzolt was acquitted as his defense lawyer .
Promoted to the Bavarian State Council in Germany in the post-war period , Meinzolt sat as State Secretary in the Hoegner I and Hoegner II cabinets . He made the rebuilding of high schools his own business. After receiving a teaching position for public law at the Technical University of Munich , he taught there from 1948 as an honorary professor for constitutional and administrative law .
Meinzolt was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany , chairman of the Association of German Student Services and a member of the Foundation Council of the German Research Foundation . From 1947 to 1959 he was president of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .
Awards
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star by Theodor Heuss (1955)
- Gold Bene merenti medal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Bavarian Order of Merit by Hanns Seidel (1959)
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1966, p. 1566.
- District of Dillingen ad Donau (ed.): The district of Dillingen an der Donau then and now, Dillingen 1982, 2nd edition, p. 385 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 105 No. 2029.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinzolt, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meinzolt, Johannes Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bächingen an der Brenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1967 |
| Place of death | Weßling |