Heinrich von Gagern (District Administrator)
Heinrich Rudolf Erich Kurt Franz Konstanz von Gagern (born December 1, 1878 in Swinoujscie ; † June 25, 1964 in Obermaiselstein ) was a German administrative lawyer , politician and district administrator from the Gagern family .
Life
Gagern was the son of the German major general and estate owner Ernst von Gagern (1848–1928) and his wife Emilie nee Rütgers. Due to the father's job, the family often had to move during his childhood. He attended the Protestant grammar school in Strasbourg, the Grand Ducal grammar school in Karlsruhe, the Joachimsthal grammar school in Berlin, the Friedrich Wilhelm grammar school in Cologne and, most recently, the episcopal grammar school in Strasbourg, where he graduated from high school in 1897.
He studied law at the Universities of Strasbourg , Munich and Berlin and, after passing the first state examination, became a court trainee on May 15, 1902. Here he was on Koenigstein im Taunus district court , district court of Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden Regional Court used and the prosecutor Bonn. He then worked as a government trainee with the government in Potsdam and the Osthavelland district and as acting mayor in Kremmen . In 1907 he passed the second state examination and moved to the Marienwerder government as a government assessor.
In 1907/08 he served as a one-year volunteer in the cuirassier regiment "Graf Gessler" (Rheinisches) No. 8 in Deutz. He resigned as a first lieutenant in the reserve. After his military service he was on leave of absence to study in France until September 1909 and on October 1, 1909, he became an advisor to the Chief President in Potsdam.
On January 17, 1914, he became provisional and on August 6, 1914 permanent district administrator in the district of Melsungen . He did military service in World War I and was wounded in September 1915. From September 1916 he was back in the service as district administrator, but left on March 1, 1919 due to the injury. He was now working in the overland headquarters of the Edertalsperre . On January 10, 1921 - after complete recovery - he was reactivated and appointed as a deputy district administrator in the district of Fulda . On August 3, 1921, he became definitely district administrator. As a devout Catholic and a member of the Center Party , he was after the seizure of power removed as district administrator of the Nazis on May 20, 1933 for political reasons. Instead he became district administrator in the district of Melsungen. But even there he was undesirable to those in power. On June 21, 1937, he was put into temporary retirement because of "incompatibility of religious beliefs with the goals of government."
Von Gagern worked as a lawyer in occupied Brussels during World War II . In this role he helped the Belgian Hélène Jeanty (later Jeanty Raven) in 1943 to avoid a German death sentence for hiding a British pilot by declaring herself insane. Since the two stayed in contact after the war, statements by him have come down to us from this time.
MP
From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the municipal council of Kassel for the district of Melsungen .
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 138.
- Dieter Pelda: The members of the Prussian Communal Parliament in Kassel 1867-1933. Elwert, Marburg 1999 (= prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hessen, 22; publications of the Historical Commission for Hessen, 48, 8) ISBN 3-7708-1129-1 p. 60
Web links
- Gagern, Heinrich Rudolf Erich Kurt Franz Konstanz von. Hessian biography. (As of July 28, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elmar Schick: Perpetrators and their victims. On the history of the dictatorship of the Third Reich between Rhön and Vogelsberg . Imhof, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86568-961-0 , p. 47: District Administrator Heinrich von Gagern .
- ↑ see Jeanty Raven Without Frontiers , Hodder & Stoughton, London 1960, 1966 and their previous writings since 1948; also BBC , November 7, 1960; here incorrect spelling "von Gargen" with him and his wife. Regularly titled "Baron" or "Baroness" by Jeanty and the BBC
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gagern, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gagern, Heinrich Rudolf Erich Kurt Franz Konstanz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer, politician and district administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swinoujscie |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1964 |
| Place of death | Obermaiselstein |