Karl Rosenhaupt

Karl Rosenhaupt (born July 30, 1885 in Fürth , † April 2, 1952 in Munich ) was a German railroad worker and politician .

Life and work

After attending school, Rosenhaupt began studying law and economics, which he completed with a doctorate. In 1912 he joined the administration of the Royal Bavarian State Railways as a councilor. In 1920 it was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . From 1924 Rosenhaupt was head of finance at the Reichsbahndirektion Munich , where he was most recently appointed to the Reichsbahnoberrat.

Rosenhaupt, who was of Jewish descent, was initially not dismissed after the " seizure of power " and the enactment of the professional civil servants' privilege due to the combatant privilege , but in October 1933 he was downgraded to " unskilled labor " in his own department. After the Nuremberg Laws came into force , he was given early retirement in 1935. He then worked as an unskilled worker for a Swiss machinery agency. After the beginning of the Second World War , Rosenhaupt had to do forced labor as a typist and warehouse worker at a Munich Reichsbahn freight station from 1939 . His “privileged mixed marriage” with a “ German-blooded ” woman saved him from deportation .

After the end of the war, he became President of the Reich Railway Directorate in Munich in June 1945 and headed the Directorate even after the transition to the Deutsche Bundesbahn until his scheduled retirement in March 1951.

Public offices

Rosenhaupt held office from May 28, 1945 to September 28, 1945 as Minister of State for the Railway in the government of the Free State of Bavaria led by Prime Minister Fritz Schäffer .

See also

• Schäffer cabinet

literature

• Alfred Gottwaldt : The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933–1939. Anti-Semitism on the railways in the pre-war period. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-254-1 , pp. 173-175, short biography on p. 440