Hans Steinmetz

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the late medieval stonemasons and masons, who were so named, see Hans von Ulm (Herrenberg)

Minister for Public Works from Togo, Paul Amegee, with State Secretary Steinmetz in the Federal Post Office (left).

Hans Steinmetz (born May 23, 1908 in Dieburg ; † October 17, 1987 ) was a German CDU politician .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Bensheim, Steinmetz studied law and political science in Frankfurt am Main and Giessen. The first state legal examination took place in 1933, and one year later, in 1934, he was dismissed from the preparatory service in the judicial administration as an opponent of National Socialism "because of political unreliability". He worked as an hourly wage earner and assembly worker from 1936 to 1940. From 1940 to 1941 he was employed by the Deutsche Fernkabelgesellschaft in Berlin. He then worked from 1941 to 1943 as a research assistant at the Reichspostzentralamt in Berlin. Was carried out with the thesis "legal forms of interstate telecommunications companies and European telecommunications" 1944 Promotion to Dr. jur. He then worked as a business lawyer in industry until the end of the war.

In June 1945 he returned to the civil service and became a co-founder of the CDU in Dieburg, Hesse . Afterwards he was a councilor in the first Hessian government in Darmstadt, then acting city treasurer of the city of Darmstadt. In 1946 he passed the Great State Examination at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main. He belonged to the state assembly of Greater Hesse that advised the constitution and was then until October 31, 1949 ( Heinz Kitz was his successor ) and again from 1954 to June 30, 1956 a member of the Hessian state parliament. In the meantime, he served from 1946 to 1948 as District Administrator for the Bergstrasse district .

In September 1948 Steinmetz was appointed ministerial director to the Central Administration for Postal and Telecommunications of the United Economic Area . From February 1949 to April 1951 he headed the OPD Koblenz and on April 1, 1954 became managing director of Deutsche Postreklame GmbH . From February 8, 1956 to May 31, 1969 he was a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications .

Steinmetz was a member of the Catholic student association KStV Nassovia Gießen and since 1961 an honorary member of the KDStV Sauerlandia Münster .

Works

• Man in administration , 1963
• Judging and treating people in the public service , Lutzeyer-Verlag, 1963 (with Hellmuth Heye and Julius Poeverlein )
• History of the Deutsche Post, Volume 4, 1945–1978 , Bonn 1979 (with Dietrich Elias )

Editor:

• Concise dictionary of the postal system , 1953
• Post Office Yearbook , since 1956
• Series of publications on the organization and post evaluation of the Deutsche Bundespost

Awards

Steinmetz was a knight of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . He was born on 5. December 1964 in Cologne by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger in the Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem invested .

• Large Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• Bearer of the New Year's Order (Grand Cross)

literature

• Manual dictionary of electrical telecommunications , 2nd edition, 3rd volume Q-Z; Pp. 1594-1595

Web links

• Steinmetz, Hans. Hessian biography. (As of October 17, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).