Karl Hahn (civil servant, 1883)

Karl Hahn (born April 18, 1883 in Frankenberg in Saxony , † 1967 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) was president of the regional labor office in Westphalia North.

Life

After passing the school leaving examination in 1904, Karl Hahn studied law , economics and history in Leipzig , then did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 4th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 103 in Bautzen and entered active military service. He graduated from the War Academy and was initially a company and battalion commander during the war , then from 1916 to 1918 a general staff officer in the 19th century. Royal Saxon Army Corps . After the war, he worked for various business and employers' associations before he became a regional advisor for social policy at the NSDAP regional government in Saxony in 1933. After working for a year, he took over the department head for legal advice at the German Labor Front for a period of three months . From January 1934 onwards Hahn worked as a trustee of the work for the economic area Westphalia in Essen, before he became provisional president of the Gauarbeitsamt Westfalen-Nord on September 1, 1943 and at the beginning of 1945 he was definitely head of the authority.

Political activity

Hahn joined the German People's Party in 1919 and was later a member of the German National People's Party . His membership in the Stahlhelm existed from 1930 until the end of April 1933. Immediately afterwards he joined the NSDAP . On April 20, 1939, he was accepted into the SS . Here he was last SS-Obersturmbannführer .

swell

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918 to 1945/1946). Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .

Web links

• Karl Hahn entry in the Internet portal "Westphalian History"