Karl Sautter

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Karl Christian Jakob Sautter (born January 29, 1872 in Biberach an der Riss , Württemberg; † February 27, 1960 in Stuttgart ) was a German administrative officer . From 1923 to 1933 he was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Post .

Career

After attending the Wieland secondary school in Biberach, Sauter joined the Württemberg postal and telegraph service as an intern on April 17, 1888 . In 1893 he passed the postal secretary examination and then studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart . After the examination for the higher Württemberg postal and telegraph service in 1896, he worked as a postal inspector in the postal administration from 1905, was promoted to chief financial treasurer in 1910 and to the postal council in 1913. In 1918 he was appointed Ministerialrat in the transport department of the Württemberg Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in 1919 lecturer there. In this position he represented the Württemberg government in the negotiations on the transfer of the Württemberg postal service to the German Empire in 1920.

In the same year he moved to the Reich Ministry of Post in Berlin. There he became savings commissioner of the Reichspost in 1922 and ministerial director in July 1923. On October 1, 1923, he took over the management of the Reich Ministry of Post as State Secretary. His area of ​​responsibility included the representation of the minister and the general management, the building construction and mechanical engineering, as well as the personnel, finance and economics of the Reichspost . In 1928 he began the postal history records of Heinrich von Stephan ( History of the Prussian Post . According to official sources until 1858) to 1868. In 1929 he was head of the German delegation at the Universal Postal Congress in London . After completing the first volume, he began with the second volume, History of the North German Federal Post Office (1868–1871) ; he completed the draft for this in 1932. However, this volume could not appear until 1935, because with his forced departure in 1933 "difficulties" had to be overcome. After the National Socialists came to power, he was retired in July 1933 at the age of 61. In the imposed retirement he wanted to take care of the third volume and asked the Reich Ministry of Post for permission to inspect the relevant files, which he was denied by a decision of November 7, 1933 without giving reasons. He had to wait until 1948 to work on this, after the head office for the postal and telecommunications system of the United Economic Area in Frankfurt am Main had appointed him as a consultant in the technical and economic field for the reconstruction of Deutsche Post in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. In 1949 he received the official order from Federal Post Minister Hans Schuberth to continue the historical work. It was completed two years later, in 1951.

He also published articles in the Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung and in the Archive for Post and Telegraphy . In addition, he held lectures at the German Association for Further Education in Political Science.

He spent his retirement in Stuttgart, where he died at the age of 88. His grave is in the forest cemetery .

Honors

Works

  • History of the Deutsche Post
    • Part 1: History of the Prussian Post. According to official sources, edited by Heinrich von Stephan until 1858 . Revised and continued by Karl Sautter until 1868. 1928
    • Part 2: History of the North German Federal Post Office (1868–1871). Unchanged reprint 1952
    • Part 3: History of the Deutsche Reichspost (1871–1945). 1951

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sautter in the foreword to part 3 "History of the German Reichspost 1871 to 1945"
  2. ↑ ZPF issue no. 1/1965; P. 2
personal data
SURNAME Sautter, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sautter, Karl Christian Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1960
Place of death Stuttgart