Helmut Bojunga

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Helmut Johann Klaudius Bojunga , also Helmuth (born June 24, 1898 in Hanover ; † September 21, 1958 ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician .

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Bojunga did military service. He had been a soldier in the First World War since 1916 and was taken prisoner by the British in 1917, from which he was released in 1919. He then took up a degree in law and political science, which he completed in 1922 with the first and in 1925 with the second state examination. In addition, he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He joined in 1926 in the Prussian civil service, worked as a magistrate (Senator) in Hannover worked and moved in early 1933 as a Councilor to the Prussian Ministry of Culture, in 1934 the new Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture . He was regarded by Minister Bernhard Rust as "an extraordinarily skilled ... civil servant with a strict national conviction" and was his former student. In 1934 he was appointed ministerial director and headed the education office until February 1938, a key point in the entire school policy. At first he planned a comprehensive educational reform from a single source, but Hitler decided to reform the individual school types gradually. Although he applied to join the NSDAP , he was refused several times, also because of his previous Rotary membership.

From 1938 to 1953 he acted as curator of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , from 1955 to 1958 as president of the monastery chamber of Hanover . In the Wilhelmstrasse trial he made himself available as a witness for Wilhelm Stuckart .

politics

In 1953/54 Bojunga served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony .

literature

  • Hans-Christian Jasch: State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart and the Jewish policy - the myth of the clean administration . Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70313-9 ; Short biography quoted by Rust on p. 464.
  • Anne Christine Nagel : Hitler's educational reformer: The Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education 1934–1945 . Volume 19425 of Fischer Taschenbücher Time of National Socialism . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19425-4 .

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SURNAME Bojunga, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bojunga, Helmut Johann Klaudius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1958