Johannes Grotjan (District Administrator)

Johannes Grotjan (born July 23, 1897 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † after 1951) was a German district administrator.

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Near the Abitur in 1916, Johannes Grotjan studied law and political science at the universities of Bonn , Tübingen , Halle and Cologne . He received his doctorate in 1921 and became a court trainee in 1925, changed a year later as a government trainee to the Cologne government and in 1928 he was transferred to the Düren district office as a government assessor. In April 1930 he was transferred to the district office of Moers, he was appointed to the government council on November 1, 1933, and to the Arnsberg government in May 1934offset. Here he worked as the head of the police department before the temporary secondment to the Dortmund police headquarters came in April 1936. On December 28, 1936, the order for the representative administration of the Unna district office followed. On July 22, 1937 initially on a provisional basis, he was finally appointed District Administrator of the Unna District on January 4, 1938. He remained in this position - with interruptions - until 1945.

He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and the SA on January 30, 1938. His last position at the German Red Cross was Oberfeldführer. In the SA he had the rank of "storm leader".

From September 1939 on he did war administration service and was chief of civil administration at Army High Command 14 in Neutitschein in Bohemia-Moravia, then district commissioner in Bielitz-Biala and in Bendsin / Upper Silesia. From June 20, 1942 to September 1944, Grotjan was a deputy district administrator in Soest . The military government had him arrested on June 2, 1945 and suspended from office. He was finally discharged from civil service on August 15, 1945 and classified in category V (exonerated) in the denazification process . From December 1, 1951, he was senior government councilor and assistant in the Federal Ministry of Economics.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 165f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).