Heinrich Hemmer

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Johannes Heinrich Hemmer (born April 14, 1886 in Devant-les-Ponts , district of Metz , Alsace-Lorraine , † May 29, 1942 in Berlin ) was an official of the German Reich . Hemmer was best known as State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery .

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After attending school, Hemmer studied at the University of Strasbourg . In 1909 he passed the doctoral and state examinations for higher teaching there. With a thesis on Ludwig Tieck , he received his doctorate as Dr. phil . In the following year, 1910, Hemmer was accepted into the Alsace-Lorraine school service.

From 1914 to 1916 Hemmer took part in the First World War. Hemmer then joined the Foreign Office , where he was assigned to the political department. As a member of the Center Party , the Foreign Office assigned him to the Reichstag member Matthias Erzberger as an employee from 1916 to 1918 . In 1918 Hemmer switched to the Armistice Commission as general advisor .

In 1919 Hemmer was appointed personal adviser to Erzberger, who had meanwhile advanced to Reich Minister, and was consequently promoted to the secret government council and lecturer in the Reich Ministry of Finance . In 1920 Hemmer was promoted to Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Finance.

On August 3, 1921, Hemmer was appointed State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery in the Wirth cabinet . In this office, in which he succeeded Heinrich Albert , until the resignation of the Wirth government in November 1922, he was in charge of the Reich Chancellery as the highest Reich authority in the administrative sense. As State Secretary, Hemmer was considered a close advisor and personal confidante of Joseph Wirth .

On the occasion of the formation of the Cuno government , Hemmer was put into temporary retirement on November 14, 1922. More than a decade later, in 1933, he was transferred to permanent retirement.

In the late 1920s, Hemmer was a member of the board of directors of Mologa AG .

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  • The beginnings of L. Tieck. With special consideration of the demonic and gruesome . Mayer and Müller, Berlin 1909. (Dissertation)
  • with Joseph Wirth : speeches during the chancellorship. With an introduction by Heinrich Hemmer . Germania, Berlin 1925.

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SURNAME Hemmer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hemmer, Johannes Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Devant-les-Ponts , district of Metz
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1942
Place of death Berlin