Hans Ritter von Lex

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Hans von Lex (2nd from right), on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the BGS, 1961

Hans Lex , Knight von Lex since 1916 (born October 27, 1893 in Rosenheim , † February 26, 1970 in Munich ), was a German politician and from 1961 to 1967 President of the German Red Cross (DRK).

education and profession

After graduating from high school, Lex studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1912 to 1914 . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich . He passed the intermediate examination corresponding to the first state examination shortly before the beginning of the First World War , in which he then served from 1914, initially in the Infantry Body Regiment of the Bavarian Army .

With the Reserve Infantry Regiment 18, Lex then advanced to lieutenant in the reserve and was due to his services in the Battle of the Somme by repelling repeated Anglo-French attacks on 30/31. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order in July 1916 . Due to the associated elevation into the personal nobility , he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Lex after his entry in the nobility register . Since August 1916 he was a company commander in his regiment. In 1918 he was assigned to the War Department after his three brothers had died. Lex was released from military service on January 28, 1919.

He then passed his second state examination, worked in 1921/23 and 1927/32 as a government assessor in the Bavarian Ministry of Culture . From 1923 to 1927 he was a district official in Rosenheim. From 1933 he was a senior government councilor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, responsible for sports issues, including the preparations for the 1936 Winter Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics .

After the Second World War , Lex was ministerial director in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior from 1946 to 1948. From 1961 to 1967 he took over the office of President of the German Red Cross (DRK) as the successor to Heinrich Weitz , who had led the reconstruction of the DRK in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War from 1952. After handing over the office to Walter Bargatzky , he became honorary president of the DRK.

Political offices

During the Weimar Republic , Lex was a member of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). He was regional leader of the Bayernwacht , the paramilitary task force of the party serving as a self-protection organization. From 1932 to 1933 he sat for the BVP as a member of the Reichstag , where he a. a. voted for Adolf Hitler's Enabling Act .

In March 1933 he negotiated with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a coalition government from the BVP and the NSDAP in Bavaria . During these talks he was offered the position of Minister of the Interior . Hans Ritter von Lex ultimately rejected both the office and the formation of a coalition. Soon after, he was imprisoned in the Stadelheim correctional facility . However, he managed to be released a short time later.

After the Second World War, Lex became a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). From 1950 to 1960 he was a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

Honors

Lex received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with star and shoulder ribbon , the Bavarian Order of Merit and in 1957 the Grand Cross of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great . He is also an honorary citizen of Rosenheim . Shortly after his death, the barracks of the Federal Border Guard in Rosenheim was named "Border Guard Accommodation Hans Ritter von Lex". 1961 Knights of Lex from the British Queen Elizabeth II. To Knight Commander of the Order Order of the British Empire ( KBE applicable).

literature

  • Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels, Günther Freiherr von Pechmann: Virtuti Pro Patria. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Acts of War and Book of Honor. 1914-1918. Munich 1966. p. 355.
  • Anton Schlögel : Five Presidents of the German Red Cross . In: Spirit and Shape of the Red Cross. 2nd edition, Bonn, 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 79.
  2. Bavaria's Golden Book of Honor. World War 1914/1918. Munich 1928. p. 36.
  3. ^ Rudolf von Kramer and Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: VIRTUTI PRO PATRIA. The Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order War deeds and book of honor. 1914-1918. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order, Munich 1966, p. 355.
  4. AAS 50 (1958), n.3, p. 130.