Johannes Duntze (lawyer)

Johannes Franz Albert Duntze (born November 23, 1901 in Strasbourg ; † September 10, 1987 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German administrative lawyer , and after 1945 also a German social politician .

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Duntze was the son of a doctor. He completed his school career in 1920 at the Friedrichgymnasium Freiburg with the Abitur. He then completed a law degree and passed the first state examination in 1924 and the second in 1927.

Duntze was government councilor in Donaueschingen from 1928 to 1934, district administrator in the district of Säckingen from 1934 to 1936 and was employed as a government director in the Baden Ministry of the Interior from 1936 to 1945 . During the Second World War he was from 1940 to 1945 as a senior war administrator a . a. deployed in Belgium and after the end of the war he was a prisoner of war until 1946. Since 1937 he was a member of the NSDAP .

Increasingly, he became an expert on refugees and displaced persons . From 1949 to 1951 he worked for the President of the Baden- Württemberg district, from 1951 to 1952 in the Württemberg-Baden Ministry of the Interior , and from 1952 to 1958 as Deputy Minister in the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims . From 1958 to 1966 he headed Department V and from 1967 to 1968 Department S (Social Affairs, Social Affairs and Welfare) in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . He was also a member of the board of directors in the Central Committee of the Inner Mission .

As head of the social department, he was significantly involved in the federal German social welfare law .

Fonts

• Federal Social Welfare Act: Commentary , ed. by Anton Knopp, Otto Fichtner. Among employees by Karl-Heinz Biederbick [among others]. With an introduction by Johannes Duntze, Vahlen, Munich 1974

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 226 .
• Hans Günter Hockerts , Michael Ruck u. a. (Ed.): History of social policy in Germany since 1945 , Vol. 4 1957–1966, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001 ISBN 978-3789073199
• Matthias Willing: The Preservation Act (1918-1967). A legal historical study on the history of German welfare. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-16-148204-2 , p. 271.

Web links

• Federal Archives, Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government, Die Ministerialbeamten