Johann Dietrich Lauenstein

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Johann Dietrich Lauenstein (born March 20, 1893 in Aurich ; † December 15, 1973 ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official. From May 1, 1940 to August 31, 1944, Lauenstein was Ministerial Director in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture (RMEL) and also the first managing director of Ostdeutsche Landbewirtschaftungsgesellschaft mbH , later the Reichsgesellschaft für Landbewirtschaftung mbH.

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After studying law in Tübingen and Göttingen, Lauenstein became a court clerk in 1915, and in 1919 a government assistant at a building and finance department. In the same year he joined the German National People's Party DNVP , of which he was a member until 1924. Lauenstein is said to have been a student of the economist Max Sering , who founded the Society for the Promotion of Internal Colonization in 1912 and the German Research Institute for Agriculture and Settlement ("Sering Institute") in 1922 and who was the author of the 1919 Reich Settlement Act.

In 1921 Lauenstein became an unskilled worker, first in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, then with the Stade government ; In 1922 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Finance in the same position. In 1924 he was promoted to government councilor. From January 1, 1925 to October 1932, he was district administrator in the Sulingen district in the Prussian province of Hanover, which was dissolved in 1932 and merged with the neighboring Diepholz district to form the new district of Grafschaft Diepholz. In 1931 Lauenstein was given leave of absence from his district administrator post and became deputy commissioner for aid to the east and head of the regional office in Königsberg (East Prussia) in the Reich commissioner for aid to the east. In 1932 he was put into temporary retirement.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " on January 30, 1933, Lauenstein became managing director of the Reichsumsiedlungsgesellschaft mbH in Berlin in early 1935. As head of Osthilfe in East Prussia and later head of the Imperial Resettlement Society, Lauenstein is said to have initiated the establishment of more than 130 settler villages. In 1936 he became a ministerial director in the Army High Command (OKH). In 1937 Lauenstein joined the NSDAP . In 1940 he moved to the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, also as Ministerial Director, and from May 1, 1940 to August 31, 1944, he was the first managing director of the Ostdeutsche Landbewirtschaftungsgesellschaft mbH, later the Reichsgesellschaft für Landbewirtschaftung mbH, in Berlin.

After the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police as well as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Volkstum (from 1939) and Reich Minister of the Interior (from 1943) Heinrich Himmler had ordered in 1944 that Lauenstein should withdraw the Settlement and Regional Culture department in the Reich Ministry, Lauenstein was temporarily district administrator of Landsberg on the Warta .

After the end of the Second World War and its denazification , Lauenstein was founded on October 11, 1947 by Dr. Henry Cohen questioned.

Lauenstein became Emsland Commissioner (State Commissioner for the Emsland) of the German Federal Government in 1950/51 . From 1951 to 1963 he was managing director of Emsland GmbH . Before Lauenstein went to Emsmoor as State Commissioner, he was a member of the Board of Directors and General Secretary of the right-wing German Party (DP) founded in the late 1940s .

In 1959 he received the Lower Saxony State Medal. Lauenstein died in 1973.

The J.-D.-Lauenstein-Strasse in Meppen and Twist were named after him.

Literature by Johann Dietrich Lauenstein

  • Johann Dietrich Lauenstein, "100 years of land development: Erlerntes, Erlebtes und Erstrebtes", series of publications for rural social issues, publications of the Agrarsozialen Gesellschaft eV Göttingen, publisher: Schaper, place of publication: Hannover, year of publication: 1967, 114 pages, paperback
  • Johann Dietrich Lauenstein, "The border separation map between the monastery of Münster and the Republic of the United Netherlands of October 25, 1785", in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein (JbEHV) No. 6, 1959, pp. 5-10

Literature about Johann Dietrich Lauenstein

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Federal Archives, BArch R 82 / Reichsgesellschaft für Landbewirtschaftung mbH, chap. "Managing directors"
  2. ↑ a b c d settlement: Not like that, Mr. v. Zitzewitz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1950, pp. 11-17 ( Online - Dec. 6, 1950 ).
  3. ↑ Interrogation no. 2151, Institute for Contemporary History Munich, Witnesses ZS-1148, https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/archiv/zs/zs-1148.pdf
  4. ↑ Federal Archives, Edition “Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic "online, http://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktenreichskanzlei/1919-1933/0000/adr/adrhl/kap1_5/para2_42.html
  5. ^ The cabinet minutes of the Hanoverian and Lower Saxony state governments 1946 to 1951; introduced and edited by Teresa Nentwig, Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen No. 269; Published by the Lower Saxony State Archives and the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2012, p. 1631, https://www.historische-kommission.niedersachsen.de/download/93533&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjnq6rvs-XgAhXC26QKHanJCNoQFggeZOQWGusg15
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SURNAME Lauenstein, Johann Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 1973