Carl von Brandenstein

Carl Eduard Franz Moritz Christoph Freiherr von Brandenstein (born September 15, 1875 in Pegau , Kingdom of Saxony , † July 23, 1946 in Woltersdorf (near Berlin) ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician (SPD).

Life

His parents were the Saxon officer Karl Christoph Albert von Brandenstein (born February 7, 1851) and his wife Elisabeth Quautius from Altenburg. Carl grew up in Proessdorf . Between 1885 and 1894 he attended grammar school in Altenburg . He then studied history and law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1895 he became active in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . As an inactive he continued his studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He passed the state examination at the Cologne Higher Regional Court . From 1904 he worked as a trainee lawyer at the regional council in Merseburg and from 1908 as head of the road and railway construction department at the Hanover provincial administration . Between 1912 and 1917 he worked as a district administrator for the Bleckede district .

From the end of 1917 Carl von Brandenstein was State Councilor of the Principality of Reuss Younger Line in Gera . He held several ministerial offices, moved closer to the SPD and was a member of the government of the short-lived state of Reuss in 1919/1920 . After the founding of the state of Thuringia , he was Minister of the Interior from 1920 to 1921 and Minister of Justice from 1921 to 1922. Brandenstein was one of the founders of the Republican Reich Federation in March 1921 and became its first chairman (until 1923, after which he was its Gauleiter in Thuringia until 1927). In September 1921 he joined the SPD, and a little later also the republican Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In 1927, at the age of 52, he retired from politics and resigned from all offices. His retirement home was initially in Berlin , and from 1930 in Woltersdorf on the south-eastern city limits of Berlin. In the Soviet zone of occupation he held honorary positions in Woltersdorf local politics. He died at the age of 70.

literature

• Bernhard Post, Volker Mahl, Dieter Marek: Thuringia Handbook - Territory, Constitution, Parliament, Government and Administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 , Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 .
• Genealogical paperback of the primitive nobility, Volume 1, 1891, p.82

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 192/191; Spelling 1910: K arl Freiherr von Brandenstein
2. ^ Werner Fritsch: Republikanischer Reichsbund (RRB) 1921–1933 (from 1922 German Republikanischer Reichsbund) . In: Dieter Fricke (Ed.) Ao: Lexicon on the history of parties, Volume 4 . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1986, p. 97.