Helmut Sieber

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Karl Helmut Sieber (born April 21, 1908 in Steinigtwolmsdorf ; † May 16, 1977 ) was a German lawyer and non-fiction author.

Life

Sieber was born in 1908 in Steinigtwolmsdorf as the son of the teacher Karl Sieber and grew up in Friedersdorf . After attending school in Zittau , he studied law at the universities of Marburg, Munich and Leipzig . He spent his legal traineeship in Upper Lusatia and Dresden . There he passed his second state examination. During the Third Reich , after completing basic military training in Löbau, from 1938 he was appointed naval chief judge at the court of the 2nd Admiral of the North Sea Naval Station in Wilhelmshaven , most recently with the military rank of frigate captain . His military legal estate, including correspondence from the post-war period, is in the Freiburg Federal Archives .

After the end of the Second World War , Sieber initially worked as a legal clerk at the German Mine Clearance Service in Hamburg , before becoming an adviser to the Attorney General at the German Higher Court in Cologne in 1948 . In 1955 he moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he worked as chief government director and permanent representative of the federal disciplinary attorney at the Federal Disciplinary Court .

In addition to his professional career, he dealt with historical and folklore topics, primarily on Saxony and Central Germany. In 1956 he published the title Unforgotten Saxony as his first work at Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich . A total of 27 further books followed, including on castles and palaces in Saxony, Silesia, Mecklenburg and Pomerania.

Works (selection)

  • Unforgettable Saxony , 1956
  • Castles and manors in Saxony , 1957
  • Castles in Central Germany , 1958
  • Castles and manors in East and West Prussia , 1958
  • Cathedrals, churches and monasteries in Saxony , 1961
  • Castles and manors in Silesia , 1961
  • There will be something for children tomorrow - a Saxon Christmas book , 1966
  • The Ghost in Love , 1967
  • Upper Lusatia , 1968
  • The Ore Mountains , 1976 (with Herbert Clauß )

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Saxon writer Helmut Sieber died . In: Glückauf - Zeitschrift des Erzgebirgsverein 86 (1977), Issue 9, pp. 107-108.
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Sieber 60 years . In: Glückauf - Zeitschrift des Erzgebirgsverein 77 (1968), issue 4, p. 44.
  3. ↑ Brown Book: War and Nazi Criminals in the Federal Republic. State, economy, army, administration, justice, science , Berlin 1965.
  4. ^ Nachlass Sieber, Karl Helmut (born 1908) in the Federal Archives .
  5. ↑ Helmut Sieber turned 60 . In: Sächsische Heimat - Mitteilungen der Bundeslandmannschaft Sachsen 14 (1968), issue 5, p. 215.
  6. ^ Federal Gazette, August 22, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Sieber, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieber, Karl Helmut (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinigtwolmsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1977