Karl Eugen Offermann

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Karl Eugen Offermann (born November 25, 1883 in Forbach , Lorraine , † March 23, 1959 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and civil servant . Among other things, Offermann was temporarily deputy to the State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery .

Live and act

Offermann was the son of a rent master. After attending school, Offermann studied law . In 1908 he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on Risk in Roman and civil law for Dr. jur. From 1911 to 1919 he worked - interrupted by a brief participation in the First World War from November 1915 to April 1916 - as an assistant judge and public prosecutor in the judicial service.

From June to August 1919 Offermann served as judge- martial . He then moved into the realm Treasury respectively - after the name change that authority - in the Finance Ministry , where he from August 1919 to July 1920 as the Government was busy and permanent laborers. In August 1920 Offermann moved to the Reich property administration, where he worked until November 1921.

On December 1, 1921 Offermann was transferred to the Reich Chancellery. There he served five Reich Chancellors from Joseph Wirth to Wilhelm Marx as a consultant for the next five and a half years . In December 1922 he was promoted to senior government councilor and on October 20, 1923 to ministerial councilor. On July 20, 1926, he was promoted to Ministerial Director and appointed permanent deputy to the State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery.

In June 1927 Offermann was appointed President of the Auxiliary Senate at the Reich Supply Court. He held this post until December 1930. His function as Deputy State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery passed to Viktor von Hagenow on June 2 or 3, 1927 . On January 1, 1931 Offermann was put into temporary retirement and on July 14, 1933 into final retirement.

From 1941 Offermann was employed in a previously unexplained position at the Berlin Police Headquarters .

After the Second World War, Offermann was head of department in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior , where he was involved in the organization of denazification in Hesse, among other things .

Fonts

  • The assumption of risk when buying under Roman law and civil law (dissertation), Borna-Leipzig 1908.

literature

  • Armin Schuster: Denazification in Hesse, 1945–1954: Politics of the past in the post-war period , 1999.
  • Peter Christian Witt: “Conservatism as 'non-partisan'. The officials of the Reich Chancellery between the Empire and the Weimar Republic 1900–1933 ”, in: Dirk Stegmann (Ed.): German Conservatism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Fritz Fischer on his 75th birthday and on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate, Berlin 1983, p. 276.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv inventory 518 No. 63426, Karl Eugen Ofermann personnel file. Description can be called up from the Hessen archive information system .
  2. ↑ Death register of the registry office Wiesbaden No. 599/1959 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Offermann, Karl Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Forbach (Moselle)
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1959
Place of death Wiesbaden