Josef Frenken

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Lambert Josef Alois Frenken , also Joseph (born September 27, 1854 in Löcken , † September 10, 1943 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( center ).

Life and work

Frenken was born as the son of a district physician and medical adviser. After graduating from high school, he began studying law and political science at the universities of Marburg , Göttingen and Bonn , which he completed in 1878 with the first state examination in law and with a doctorate in Dr. jur. finished. He then joined the Prussian judicial service as a court trainee. He passed the second state examination in law in 1883, was then a court assessor and worked as a public prosecutor in Cologne from 1889 . He later worked as an appellate judge in Celle .

In 1900, Frenken was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Justice as a Privy Councilor of Justice and Lecturing Council; in 1904 he was appointed to the Privy Council of Justice and since 1913, as Ministerialdirektor with the character of a Real Secret Councilor of Justice, head of the department for criminal matters and prison systems there. From 1916 to 1922 he was President of the Cologne Higher Regional Court . After his retirement, he served as the ninth president of the Central Cathedral Building Association in Cologne from November 1921 until his death .

Frenken had been married to Maria Eleonore von Meer since 1896 , with whom he had seven children.

Public offices

Frenken served from 1914 to 1916 as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry for Alsace-Lorraine . On January 16, 1925, he was appointed Minister of Justice to the government led by Chancellor Hans Luther . At the same time he took over the provisional management of the Reich Ministry for the occupied territories . Due to his negative attitude to the Locarno Treaties , he announced his resignation on November 21, 1925 and resigned from the Reich government .

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