Hans Piesbergen (lawyer)

Hans Piesbergen (born July 15, 1891 in Osterholz (Bremen) , † 1970 ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life

Piesbergen was the son of a district judge. He studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and in 1910 became a member of the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . He finished his studies in 1913 with the first state examination and began his legal clerkship . He took part in the entire First World War, so that he could not continue his legal clerkship until 1919. From 1921 he was employed at the district office of the Obertaunus district . After working in Berlin , Wiesbaden and Münster , he became district administrator of the Fallingbostel district in the province of Hanover in 1930 . Piesbergen belonged to the German People's Party from 1922 to 1929 .

On May 1, 1933, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . After the destruction of the rest of the Czech Republic , he became Ministerialrat in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939 . In the planning of the attack on Poland , Piesbergen was designated as head of the Moravia civil administration, based in Brno . From June 5, 1940, he became head of the presidential department at the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories on the right hand of Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyß-Inquart . On August 1, 1941, he was appointed regional president of the Hohenzollern Lands , but did not exercise his office in Sigmaringen because of his use in the Netherlands . On January 30, 1942, Wilhelm Dreher succeeded him as district president.

Piesbergen lived on his Rüenberg estate in Gronau (Westphalia) .

Fonts

• The Reich Cartel Court as an administrative court according to the KVO of November 2, 1923 , Wertheim: Bechstein, 1933 Diss. Heidelberg 1931

literature

• Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2001 (Acta borussica Volume 12 / II) ISBN 3-487-12704-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marie Schmidt, Karl-Heinz Garschagen (ed.): The Garschagen family. A contribution to their history up to 1982. Self-published Garschagen, Haltern 1983, p. 444.
2. ^ Year of death according to Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 31 , 287
3. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Ruck : Corpsgeist and State Consciousness. Civil servants in the south-west of Germany from 1928 to 1972 . Munich 1996, p. 116. Ruck did not find any other personal files for Piesbergen, ibid. Note 121
4. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 31 , 287
5. ^ Fallingbostel district on www.territorial.de
6. ↑ Foreign Office / Political Archive and Historical Unit: Files on German Foreign Policy. 1918-1945. From the archive of the Foreign Office . Göttingen et al. 1950–1995, here: Series D. Volume VII, Document 100, pp. 90–91, August 17, 1939
7. ↑ Verordeningenblad voor Nederland 1940 bezet II (07-06-1940)
8. ^ Findings in the archive of the NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- and Genocidestudies