Heinrich Doehle

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Richard Heinrich 'Heini' Doehle (born September 23, 1883 in Strasbourg , German Empire , † September 3, 1963 in Badenweiler ) was a German civil servant.

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Early years

Doehle studied law at the Universities of Strasbourg and Erlangen , where he in 1907 with a paper on the use claim of ownership to Dr. jur doctorate. During his studies in Strasbourg he met Otto Meissner , who was also studying law and, like Doehle himself, was a member of the Strasbourg fraternity Germania . Later both men worked together in the German railway administration in Alsace .

Worked in the office of the Reich President / Presidential Chancellery

After the First World War , Doehle initially worked for the welfare office for refugees from Alsace-Lorraine set up in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . He was then assigned to the Berlin police headquarters.

On August 20, 1919, on the recommendation of Otto Meissner, Doehle received a position in the office of the Reich President , to which Meissner had recently been appointed as State Secretary of the Head of State. For the next 26 years he remained in the office of the Reich President (which operated as the Presidential Chancellery from 1934 ) and held office successively as a consultant, senior government councilor, ministerial advisor, ministerial director and undersecretary of state. In this capacity he first served the Reich President Friedrich Ebert (1919 to 1925) and Paul von Hindenburg (1925 to 1934) and finally Adolf Hitler, after he merged the office of Reich President with that of Chancellor in 1934 and unified it in person, without the title of the President.

In the head of state's office in the 1920s and early 1930s, Doehle was primarily responsible for the areas of “domestic policy” and “mercy”. This brought with it that Doehle Ebert and Hindenburg informed and advised daily about the events and developments in all important domestic political and grace matters. Besides Meissner, he was also the most important legal advisor to the Reich President. For the first Reich President, Friedrich Ebert , Doehle regularly attended the Reichstag meetings in order to inform the President afterwards - and usually also in between, by telephone - about the events in parliament and the progress of the negotiations there. During the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch in March 1920, Doehle acted as a courier between the government members who had fled to Dresden and the Reich President on the one hand, and the cabinet members who remained in Berlin on the other.

Doehle was a member of the SS (SS no. 309.078) and was promoted to SS-Oberführer on November 9, 1940. He reached the (nominal) high point of his career in the “Third Reich” when he was appointed head of the “Ordenskanzlei des Führer and Reich Chancellor” by Hitler on the occasion of his appointment as Undersecretary of State in the Presidential Chancellery .

In 1931 Doehle married a woman named Helene.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War , Doehle was elected chairman of the Federation of Displaced Officials in the German Association of Officials (Verbaost). Doehle represented him as a person relatively well known in public, especially to the outside world. In May 1955 Doehle resigned from his office for health reasons.

Doehle's memoirs are in private print in the Koblenz Federal Archives. They mainly describe political events that Doehle witnessed at close range, but, according to Eberhard Kolb , contain only “very little information” about the internal workings of the office.

Fonts

  • The owner's claim to use , Erlangen 1907. (Dissertation)
  • Orders and decorations in the Third Reich , 1939.
  • The medals and decorations of the Greater German Reich , 1941.
  • The awards of the Greater German Reich - medals, decorations, badges , 1943 to 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First name Richard, Ludolf Herbst / Werner Bührer: Vom Marshallplan zur EWG , 1990, p. 651. There Doehle is called “(Richard) Heinrich Doehle”.
  2. ^ Name under which his dissertation appeared.
  3. ^ Kolb, p. 82.
  4. Kolb: p. 89f.
  5. ^ Kolb: p. 80.
  6. ^ Caroline Rupprecht: Subject to Delusions. Narcissism, Modernism, Gender , 2006, p. 138.
  7. Linus Kather: The disempowerment of the expellees , 1964, p. 97.
  8. Eugen Lemberg / Friedrich Edding: The Expellees in West Germany , 1959, p. 585.

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