Hermann Sabath

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Hermann Sabath

Hermann Friedrich Sabath (born October 3, 1888 in Cologne , † May 29, 1968 in Bonn ) was a German ministerial official.

Life

Sabath was a son of the court advisor Hermann Gustav Friedrich Sabath (born December 14, 1860 in Rheda, † 1923 in Kray-Leithe). He attended the Schalke Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Lausanne and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From the winter semester 1908/09 to the winter semester 1909/10 he was active in the Corps Transrhenania Munich . On May 10, 1909 recipiert , he excelled at being a senior and once as a Cub Major from. When he was inactive , he moved to the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1911, he passed the state examination in law at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . During his legal clerkship he came to the Wattenscheid district court . From October 2, 1911, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Clevesches Feldartillerie-Regiment 43 ( 1st Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 7 ) in Wesel . On July 1, 1912 he was appointed sergeant in the reserve and officer aspirant. Since 1913 trainee lawyer at the regional court in Essen , he has been on leave for service with the colonial authorities (German Empire) . In 1913/14 he was a trainee lawyer at the district courts in Moshi and Tanga (Tanzania) and at the Dar es Salaam Higher Court in German East Africa .

First World War

When the First World War broke out, he joined the Schutztruppe for German East Africa on August 16, 1914 . In the first days of the war he was the adjutant of Governor Heinrich Schnee . As a deputy officer , he led the artillery division "Dar es Salaam" from August 22, 1914 to September 30, 1915 and the "Urundi" artillery division from October 1915 to February 26, 1916. From April 1916 to April 19, 1917 he was an observer at the “Hauptmann Köhl” battery. From April 20, 1917 to May 13, 1918 he led the 2nd Mountain Rifle Battery . The unit was disbanded when the last gun was blown up due to ammunition consumption. From May 14th to August 25th, 1918, Sabath finally led a platoon of the 17th Field Company. He was then leader of the 13th Field Company until the Compiègne Armistice (1918) . He was wounded three times and received the Iron Cross of both classes as well as the Hamburg and Bremen Hanseatic Cross . With an officer's license dated August 15, 1914, he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in his Clever Regiment on May 17, 1919 . On September 2, 1919 resigned from the protection force, he received the on January 27, 1921 Character of a lieutenant .

Ministerial Officer (1919-1945)

Sabath on the full committee of the VAC

In the Weimar Republic , Sabath sat on the general committee of the VAC from 1919 to 1924 . In 1920 he was appointed to the Reich Chancellery as a government assessor. Two years later he came to the Reich Ministry of Finance , where he was promoted to the Government Council (1922) and the Upper Government Council (1925). From 1927 he was the personal assistant to the Vice Chancellor and Reich Justice Minister Oskar Hergt . After his retirement from the national government moved Sabath 1928 release from financial services in the Office of the Reich Commissioner savings . After the victory of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the Reichstag elections in March 1933 , Sabath was appointed Ministerialrat and office manager of Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen at the suggestion of Finance Minister Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk . In the so-called Vice Chancellery, Sabath was primarily responsible for the administrative management of the department. Papen later characterized his office manager in his memoirs as a man who had "all the good qualities of the [after the First World War] almost extinct professional class of the old civil servants". Since, according to Fritz Günther von Tschirschky, he “kept out of any political activity”, Sabath only came into loose contact with the conservative Edgar Jung group . In 1934 he moved to the Foreign Office as a lecturer and group leader . In the same year he proposed together with Hermann Emil Kuenzer , Friedrich Landfried , Ulrich Kersten and other influential Corps students Max Blunck as leader of the KSCV . Around 1936 he took over the management of the “Economy and Finance” section of the trade and economic policy department at the Foreign Office . He stayed there until the end of World War II . On March 1, 1938, he was appointed captain of the reserve in the 22nd Artillery Regiment ( 22nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) ). Since January 1, 1940 he was a member of the NSDAP. In 1945 he was automatically arrested by the Americans . Subsequently appointed to the audit office of the United Economic Area , between 1947 and 1949 he was a witness in the arbitration chamber proceedings against his former boss v. Papen. In 1949 he was accepted as a ministerial advisor to the Federal Audit Office , where he became head of the Bonn office in 1952. In 1952, the Adenauer I cabinet appointed him Commissioner of the (Bonn) Foreign Office for colonial societies. On January 1, 1957, he retired from the Federal Audit Office. He died after a long and serious illness at the age of 79. He is buried in the Südfriedhof (Bonn) .

Honors

estate

Sabath's estate is now stored in the Koblenz branch of the Federal Archives . It is half a meter long and contains materials from the years 1910 to 1963. These are personal papers, correspondence (including from Sabath's time in the Reich Chancellery in 1921), documents on the court proceedings against v. Papen and documents on the history of the German colonies with documents on the work of Ludwig Boell.

Fonts

  • The Agreement of April 3, 1925 on the English reparations levy , 1926.

literature

  • Foreign Office (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 , Vol. 4, Paderborn 2012. PDF

Web links

Commons : Hermann Sabath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 115/237.
  2. ↑ a b Personal book of the Corps Transrhenania
  3. ^ Reichssparkommissar (Federal Archives)
  4. ↑ Franz Müller: A "Right Catholic" Between Cross and Swastika , 1990, p. 57
  5. ↑ Franz von Papen: Der Truth ein Gasse , 1952, p. 311.
  6. ^ Fritz Günther von Tschirschky: Memories of a high treason , 1972, p. 101.
  7. ^ Wolfgang A. Mommsen : The bequests in the German archives , 1983, p. 1075.
personal data
SURNAME Sabath, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabath, Hermann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1968
Place of death Bonn