Josef Hamberger (politician, 1890)

Josef Michael Hamberger (born May 24, 1890 in Ingolstadt ; † May 17, 1958 in Steppach near Augsburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and local politician ( CSU ).

Career

Josef Hamberger was born in Ingolstadt as the son of the chief tax controller Michael Hamberger and Julie Hamberger (née Bäumler). In 1910 he completed his high school at Munich's Ludwig High School and then studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen to the " First State Examination " in 1914. He then worked for two years for the magistrate of at that time still an independent town of Pasing . From 1917 to 1919 he completed his legal clerkship in the civil administration in the Polish city ​​of Łuków , which was occupied during the First World War , and passed the “ Second State Examination ”.

On January 15, 1921, Hamberger married Irmingard von Orterer, and his daughter later married the chief curator of the Germanic National Museum , Ludwig Rothenfelder.

From 1922 to 1926 Hamberger was district administrator in Dillingen an der Donau , then he went back to Munich as managing director of the exhibition The Bavarian Crafts . From June 1928 to November 1934 he was Councilor at the government of Upper Bavaria , then followed by years as a District Officer in Schongau (December 1934-April 1935) and Passau (until February 1936) and again as a government at the Higher insurance office Nuremberg , (until December 1938) the state insurance institute Swabia (until February 1945) and at the end of the Second World War at the Munich Oberversicherungsamt.

After the war, Josef Hamberger was established in June 1945 by the American military government as a part-time district administrator of the district of Augsburg used. In the district elections in 1946 he ran successfully as district administrator in the Augsburg and Schongau districts (here against Franz Josef Strauss ) but only took up the office in Augsburg, which he had to hand over to Albert Kaifer after the district election in 1948 .

In 1946 he became a senior councilor in the government of Swabia . In 1949 he moved to the government of Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate as government director , where he became government vice-president in 1954. He retired a year later .

Josef Hamberger died on May 17, 1958 in Steppach near Augsburg (today in Neusäß ). His written estate came to the Bavarian Main State Archives as a crypto estate through his son-in-law .

Hamberger was a member of the Bavarian Homeland and Königsbund , the Catholic student association KDStV Langobardia Munich (since 1910), the Bavarian Forest Association , the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (both since 1952) and in the last two years of his life the association "Salamander - Casual association of terrarium friends ”.

politics

During the Weimar Republic , Hamberger was a member of the Bavarian People's Party . In autumn 1945 he joined the CSU and, after his time as district administrator, in spring 1950 he joined the Bavarian Party .

literature

• Karl-Ulrich Gelberg (Ed.): End of the war and a new beginning in Augsburg 1945 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-486-56157-9 .

Web links

• Finding aid database from Josef Hamberger's estate
• Hamberger on the homepage of the Augsburg district

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert J. Bierschneider: Finding aid preface of the Bavarian Main State Archives, July 10, 1992. Retrieved on March 26, 2019.
2. ↑ Little scruples on the way to the ministry. In: Merkur.de. April 26, 2009. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .