Hans Schäfer (lawyer)

Hans Schäfer, 1964

Hans Schäfer (born January 26, 1910 in Rhodt unter Rietburg near Edenkoben , Rhineland-Palatinate ; † May 6, 1980 in Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia ) was a German lawyer , State Secretary and President of the Federal Audit Office .

Life

Hans Schäfer studied law and political science at the University of Munich , where he was a member of the Corps Vitruvia. His dissertation , with which he was awarded a Dr. jur. received his doctorate, wrote Schäfer in 1934 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg on the subject of "The community in their participation in the judiciary" .

From 1937 to 1939 and from 1942 to 1945 Schäfer worked in the Reich Ministry of Justice ; from 1939 to 1942 he was drafted into the armed forces. In 1943 he was a senior councilor in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and, with Walter Wilhelmi and Walter Labs, author of a legal collection for occupied Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Belarus and the Ukraine under the editor Alfred Meyer .

After the Second World War he was a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1947 to 1955. He was then transferred to the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1955 , where he worked until 1962 as Ministerial Director and Head of Department I ( Constitution , State Law and Administration). From 1962 to 1966 and from 1969 to 1971 he was a permanent state secretary in the BMI. Most recently, Schäfer was President of the Federal Audit Office from 1971 to 1978.

Schäfer was a member of the FDP.

Honors

• 1966: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• The community in their participation in the judiciary , Würzburg, 1934. (Würzburg, R.- and staatswiss. Diss.)
• The law of the occupied eastern territories. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Collection of ordinances, decrees and other regulations on administration, administration of justice, economy, finance and traffic with explanations by the speakers , publisher v. Dr. Alfred Meyer, Gauleiter and permanent representative of the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, with the assistance of v. Dr. Walter Wilhelmi, Ministerialrat, Dr. Walter Labs, Upper Government Council, Dr. Hans Schäfer, Senior Government Councilor in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, loose-leaf edition. With the 1st Erg.-Lfg. September 1943 Munich; Berlin: Beck, 1943.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library