Karl Otto von Kameke

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Karl Otto Ernst Hasso von Kameke (born January 24, 1889 in Biziker near Köslin , Pomerania ; † July 27, 1959 in Thüngen , Lower Franconia ) was a German ministerial official and conservative politician.

Life and work

After passing the state examination and subsequent clerkship seemed Kameke in 1917 briefly as adjutant of the Chancellor Georg Michaelis and then to 1922 as a lecturer Council in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. From 1921 he was Deputy Plenipotentiary of Prussia at the Reichsrat . From 1922 to 1927 he worked at the Prussian Higher Administrative Court .

In 1927, the DNVP Minister Walter von Keudell brought him to the Reich Ministry of the Interior as the successor to the proven democrat Arnold Brecht as ministerial director and head of the constitutional department, in order to set clearly conservative signals.

In 1929 Kameke had to give up this position under the Social Democratic Minister Carl Severing and was replaced by the previous Magdeburg Police President Hans Menzel . He went back to the Prussian Higher Administrative Court , where he was appointed President of the Senate in 1934 .

Politically, Kameke was initially in the DNVP camp, but from 1930 to 1933 he was involved in the Conservative People's Party around Gottfried Treviranus and Kuno Graf Westarp . He was a member of the leadership of the party ("Six Council").

From 1940 to 1944 he worked as head of civil administration in Belgium and Northern France under the military commander General Alexander von Falkenhausen .

Kameke was also President of the German Evangelical Station Mission and the Berlin Mission Society . He was also vice president of the Central Committee of the Inner Mission . After the end of the Second World War , he took part in refugee and displaced persons work in Bavaria . On December 13, 1951, Kameke was elected deputy chairman at the founding meeting of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal” (AFD) in Bonn.

He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

family

Kameke married Franziska Freiin von Thüngen (1889–1982) in Thüngen on May 29, 1914 , the daughter of the royal Bavarian treasurer and major Hans Karl Freiherr von Thüngen, master of the Thüngen estate, and Julia Countess von Giech . Three sons came from this marriage, including the diplomat and consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany Karl August von Kameke and the German church musician and composer Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke .

Publications

  • About the decline in the birth rate in the Oberbarnim district , 1914
  • The senior administrator , Furche-Verlag, 1920

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personal data
SURNAME Kameke, Karl Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kameke, Karl Otto Ernst Hasso von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bizarre
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1959
Place of death Thüngen , Lower Franconia