Karl Maria Hettlage

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Karl Maria Hettlage 1934

Karl Maria Hettlage (born November 28, 1902 in Essen ; † September 3, 1995 in Bonn ) was a qualified lawyer, center politician, SS Hauptsturmführer, board member of Commerzbank , “central role” in Albert Speer's authority, general building inspector for the Reich capital as well as in Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production . In the spring of 1959, Hettlage was appointed State Secretary to Finance Minister Franz Etzel in the Federal Government Konrad Adenauer .

biography

Hettlage went to school in Eschweiler , where his father Carl Hettlage was mayor from 1911 to 1920, and studied law in Cologne and Münster . In Münster he became a member of the Catholic student association VKDSt. Saxonia in the CV and founded the social student center of Dr. Sunshine Movement of the Catholic social reformer Carl Sonnenschein . From 1922 to 1925 Hettlage was also a member of the Westphalian Treubund of Hubert Naendrup , which emerged from the banned right-wing radical organization Escherich (Orgesch) . In 1925, Hettlage joined the Center Party . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. In 1925 he began a legal traineeship and found temporary employment in the Foreign Office with entry into the Prussian civil service. In 1929 he married Margarete Brenken ; The children Peter, Jan Bernt, Birgitta and Karin emerged from the marriage. In 1930 he joined the Cologne city administration as a government assessor.

In 1930 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne on the topic of financial and burden equalization as a constitutional problem , then he was a private lecturer , then managing director of the German Municipal Association . In 1931 he became a member of the German Municipal Assembly in the finance department and finance department. 1932–1933 and again in 1933 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament for the center .

time of the nationalsocialism

On June 26, 1933, he was one of the founding members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law . From 1934 to 1938 he worked as the city ​​treasurer of Berlin, having previously held this post on a provisional basis - possibly promoted by his mentor Johannes Popitz . In 1936, Hettlage was appointed non-civil servant, extraordinary professor for constitutional and administrative law at the School of Politics, where he lectured. In the spring of 1939, Hettlage resigned from his office as city treasurer. The official reason was a suspected conflict of interests because of his appointment to the board of Commerz- und Privatbank , which took place in June 1939. However, Hettlage only worked part-time at Commerzbank, at least from 1940, because from April 1, 1940 , he held a high position with the General Building Inspector (GBI) for the Reich capital, Albert Speer. There he became head of the main office administration and economy - main office II, one of the three main departments at GBI. As the holder of another office, the head of the Office for Economics and Finance of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production , he gave the order to found the concentration camp operator Mittelwerk GmbH on September 24, 1943 and was a member of the advisory board of Mittelwerk GmbH in 1943. Hettlage was Speer's representative until 1945.

Under Hettlage's responsibility, the index of rented apartments in Berlin that were inhabited by Jews was created. This card index was used by the GBI in order to obtain “free” rental apartments for demolition tenants, whose houses and apartments were to give way to the renovation plans for Berlin to become the new capital Germania .

The card index was later the basis for the Gestapo to compile the deportation lists . In the later so-called actions, the termination of the apartment was no longer the harbinger of the kidnapping - with the possibility of going into hiding for those who were able to - but the arrest, for example in the factory action .

Hettlage worked for Speer alongside people such as Hans Kammler , Walter Dornberger ( Peenemünde ) and Gerhard Degenkolb (Duisburg machine factory) on the advisory board of the corporation of the Mittelwerke concentration camp . In management worked Kurt Kettler ( Borsig ), Otto Förschner (sturmbannführer in the Buchenwald concentration camp ), Otto Bersch ( Wehrwirtschaftsführer from Vienna ), Georg Rickhey ( Demag ) and Albin Sawatzki (director of the "Working Committee series" of the Special Committee A4 ). Hettlage was not a member of the NSDAP , but was a member of the SS from 1936 to 1942 (SS no. 276.909), first as Untersturmführer from September 1936, then from September 1938 as Hauptsturmführer , according to his own, sometimes concealed information in the denazification process only on an honorary basis. Within the NSDAP, Hettlage had influential opponents, including Joseph Goebbels and Munich's mayor and head of the main office for local politics, Karl Fiehler .

After 1945

In 1945 he was interned with Albert Speer, Wernher von Braun , Hjalmar Schacht and others in the Dustbin camp in Kransberg Castle in the Taunus. From 1949 Hettlage held various lectureships in law and finance and was a member of the supervisory board. On November 29, 1951, he gave an inaugural lecture as the newly appointed full professor for public law in Mainz on the subject of economic reality and constitutional law . From 1956 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

In 1958 he became head of the budget department of the Federal Ministry of Finance as the successor to the ministerial director Friedrich Karl Vialon (advocate of the so-called Schäffer 's Juliusturm policy). From March 18, 1959 to 1962, he was Hartmann's successor State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, representing Minister Etzel, who was often ill, and in case of differences with the new FDP Finance Minister, Starke .

1962–1967 he was a member of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (Montanunion) in Luxembourg , succeeding Heinz Potthoff . Hettlage resigned when the governing bodies of the EEC , Euratom and ECSC were merged to form the new super commission . From 1965 to 1976 he was President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research e. V. and 1966 member of the Science Council .

He was also a member of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Finance , was chairman of the board of trustees for the German-Dutch financial agreement GmbH (Tredefina) , board member of Wirtschaftsberatungs-AG, advisory board of the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung , deputy chairman of the board of trustees of Treuhand-Vereinigung AG and was also a member of the German National Academic Foundation .

From 1967 to 1969 Hettlage was a permanent state secretary in the Ministry of Finance, appointed by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss . There Hettlage participated in the financial reform of the CDU-SPD coalition. In 1967, at the instigation of Franz Josef Strauss, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a star and shoulder ribbon . As the superior of Ernst Féaux de la Croix , he was responsible for the negotiations on the global reparation agreements on the part of the Federal Ministry of Finance. Féaux vehemently opposed what he called the compensation offensives and boundless demands.

Awards

Publications

  • with Wilhelm Loschelder and Werner Zschintzsch : The municipal finance ordinance of November 2, 1932 together with the establishment plan ordinance of November 2, 1932, the first and second ordinance on the implementation of the municipal finance ordinance of December 17, 1932 and January 28, 1933. Comment R. Müller, Eberswalde-Berlin 1933, 452 pp.
  • with Wilhelm Loschelder and Wolfgang Spielhagen : The Prussian Municipal Finance Act of December 15, 1933 with the implementing ordinances and implementation instructions; Commentary by Karl Maria Hettlage, Wilhelm Loschelder [and] Wolfgang Spielhagen. R. Müller, Eberswalde-Berlin 1934, 429 pp.
  • with Wilhelm Loschelder: Commentary on the legal basis of municipal business law. Three volumes.
  • The financial constitution under the state constitution. Presentation at the constitutional law teachers' conference in Hamburg in 1955 together with Theodor Maunz as second speaker.
  • with Rudolf Zorn and Hans Constantin Paulssen : The public service and the economy. Wish and reality. Lutzeyer, Baden-Baden 1960.
  • Leadership selection and mass society. In: The university between yesterday and tomorrow. Analysis and Perspectives. Published by Heinrich Drimmel , Herder, Vienna 1966.
  • with Wolfgang Mansfeld, Klaus Heller and Wilhelm Weisser: forced through empty coffers. In: German Industrial Institute : Lecture series. Deutsche Industrieverlags-Gesellschaft vol. 16, 1966, No. 14.
  • Basic questions of a reorganization of German financial law. In finance and finance policy. Mohr, Tübingen 1964.
  • Collaboration on a five-volume history of the German administration .

literature

  • Mauve Carbonell: Karl-Maria Hettlage, un expert au service de l'Europe et des Allemagnes. In: Revue d'histoire de l'intégration européenne. 12 (2006), No. 1, pp. 67-85.
  • Hettlage's hearing in World War II Papers, SZ / BBSU / 79 Speer interrogation reports Nos. 16-19, 1945, Solly Zuckerman Archives.
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus Vogel from Munich: Karl Maria Hettlage on his 90th birthday. In: Archives of Public Law 117 (1992) pp. 644–645. In this congratulations, Hettlage is honored as the embodiment of secondary virtues, which fortunately would be seen again in their fundamental importance for the community now [1992]. Literally: “(Hopefully it is not too late for that): Reliability, a sense of duty, willingness to work for the common good. With this attitude he can still be a role model today. "
  • Obituary: In memory of Karl Maria Hettlage. In: Archives of Public Law 120 (1995) pp. 631–632.
  • Susanna Schrafstetter: persecution and reparation. Karl M. Hettlage: Employee of Albert Speer and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 3/2008, p. 437 ff. (PDF; 419.89 kB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Susanna Schrafstetter: persecution and reparation. Karl M. Hettlage: Employee of Albert Speer and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 3/2008, p. 431 ff., P. 466 (PDF; 419.89 kB).
  2. ↑ Commerz- und Privat-Bank Hamburg-Berlin: Annual report on the 70th financial year 1939 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
  3. ↑ Susanna Schrafstetter: persecution and reparation. Karl M. Hettlage: Employee of Albert Speer and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 3/2008, p. 437 ff. (PDF; 419.89 kB).
  4. ↑ a b c Susanne Willems : The evacuated Jew. Albert Speer's housing market policy for the Berlin capital construction. Edition Hentrich, June 2002, ISBN 3-89468-259-0 .
  5. ^ Yves Beon: Dora governing bodies (Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp).
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Hettlage, Karl Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1995
Place of death Bonn