Hans Schmidt-Leonhardt

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Schmidt-Leonhardt (1906)

Hans Schmidt-Leonhardt (born August 6, 1886 in Leipzig , † April 1945 in Berlin ) was a leading press lawyer in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 .

Life

As the son of a factory owner, Schmidt-Leonhardt attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1905 . He became a member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig in 1906 and headed the Kösener Congress in 1914 . He made 1909 the state examination and received his doctorate in 1910 in Leipzig for Dr. iur.

After he had passed the assessor examination in 1913 , he began his civil service career in 1914 in the internal administration of the Kingdom of Saxony . In 1920 he was appointed government councilor in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. His work The Second Proletariat , published in the same year, was briefly mentioned a year later in Paul Levi's work Our Way . Schmidt-Leonhardt continued his career in 1924 at the Ministry of the Interior and in 1925 at the Saxon Legation in Berlin. In 1926 he became a senior councilor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior .

In 1933 he went to the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda as a specialist in press law . As Ministerialrat he headed the legal department of the ministry and was also chairman of the Reich Chamber of Culture . He published on the Chamber and the Editor's Law . In May 1937 Schmidt-Leonhardt joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . The Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin appointed him honorary professor in 1938 . In 1939 he became ministerial conductor . At the end of the war he committed suicide .

Publications

  • The second proletariat . Weicher, Leipzig & Berlin 1920.
  • The Saxon Hunting Act of July 1, 1925 with d. related. Reichs- u. state law. Regulations 1925 . Roßbergsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1925.
  • The senior administrator . Trowitzsch & Son, Berlin 1929.
  • The editors' law of October 4, 1933 together with the relevant provisions . C. Heymann , Berlin 1934.
  • The Reich Chamber of Culture . Industrieverlag Spaeth & Linde , Berlin 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3 , 746
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Recess between Saxony and Schönburg
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 531.

swell

  • Personnel files in the archive of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Leonhardt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary, specialist in press law in the Third Reich
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 1945
Place of death Berlin