Hans Posse (State Secretary)

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Hans Ernst Posse (born August 13, 1886 in Berlin , † August 18, 1965 in Singen ) was a German State Secretary during the Nazi era .

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Posse's father was the harpist, chamber virtuoso and professor at the Berlin University of Music Wilhelm Posse (1852–1925). In his youth Posse attended the humanistic grammar school in Charlottenburg. He then studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. After completing his studies and his doctorate, he came to the Cologne district as a trainee lawyer in 1909 . In 1913 he became a government assessor at the district office of Beuthen .

From 1914 to 1918 Posse took part in the First World War as a reserve officer . After the war he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry as an unskilled worker , where he was promoted to Ministerialrat in 1921 . In 1924 he was promoted to ministerial director and appointed head of the customs and trade policy department of the Reich Ministry of Economics . In this capacity he took part in numerous international business negotiations: In December 1928 he was head of the German delegation at the German-Russian business negotiations at the time. He was also the German representative of the Economic Commission of the League of Nations Assembly .

From 1933 to 1938 Posse served as general state secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 1938 to 1945 he was State Secretary for Special Tasks and Deputy General Manager for the Economy in the same house. In 1940 Posse was also head of the Special Staff I We. the Army High Command appointed. In 1941 he was also appointed Reich Commissioner for the Unilever group in Rotterdam . According to Walther Funk , Posse was his main deputy, but had a position that was very remote, in contrast to Friedrich Landfried and Emil Puhl in the Reichsbank : "Mr. Posse was an old, sick man whom I held this post had turned off. ... this unfortunate general manager for the economy has actually essentially remained on paper. "

After the Second World War , he was interrogated at the Nuremberg Trials . By a denazification nothing is known. After that, Posse lived in Nussdorf near Überlingen and worked as a journalist.

Web links

Wikisource: Economic Sabotage Act (1936)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Testimony of Walther Funk at the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals on May 6, 1946
  2. ↑ Nuremberg trials, document number 3894-PS
personal data
SURNAME Posse, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Posse, Hans Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1965
Place of death To sing