Karl Schneider (State Secretary)

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Karl Schneider (born February 26, 1887 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † April 2, 1969 in Bonn ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Schneider attended the Kgl. Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg. He studied law and economics at the universities of Berlin and Erlangen and graduated with a doctorate . He then worked as a court clerk from 1909 and as a court assessor from 1914 after the second state examination in law. After being called up as an unskilled worker in the Reich Post Office and participating in the First World War , he was appointed to the Post Council in 1920. In the same year, the BV Schöneberg elected him for the first time unpaid city councilor, until 1927 he was district councilor or city councilor in constituency 11 Schöneberg (DNVP). In 1923 he was appointed Oberpostrat and in 1926 Ministerialrat and was a part-time lecturer at the Berlin Administrative Academy .

From 1933 to 1942 he was President of the Reichspostdirektion Bremen . Subsequently, until the dissolution in March 1943, president of the Reichspostdirektion Aachen . After that, at the age of 56, he was put into temporary retirement .

After the Second World War he was again active as President of the Oberpostdirektion Bremen and from 1946 a member of the Zone Advisory Board for the British Zone , before he became Head of Department IV of the Central Administration for Post and Telecommunications in the United Economic Area on October 1, 1948 . He was appointed Ministerial Director on February 1, 1949.

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he was first head of the budget and cash department in the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications , then head of the central department and from September 1, 1951 until he retired on February 28, 1953, First Secretary of State. Most recently he lived on Poppelsdorfer Allee in Bonn .

Honors

Works

  • 20 years of postal law; 1927
  • Extension of the of Max Aschenborn commenced legal commentary to the Postal Act : The Law on the postal system of the German Empire, together with the basic provisions on the Constitution of the German Reich Post , 2nd edition. Julius Springer , Berlin 1928

literature

  • Udo Wengst: State structure and government practice 1948–1953 (= Volume 74 of contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties), Droste, 1984
  • Manual dictionary of the postal system ; 2nd Edition; P. 667
  • Manual dictionary of electrical telecommunications , 2nd edition, 3rd volume Q-Z; P. 1471
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Degeners Who is it? - 10th edition - Berlin: Degener, 1935
  • Directory of senior civil servants of the Deutsche Bundespost (years 1969; 1970; 1971)

Individual evidence

  1. Christiane Hoss: Put in front of the door: Berlin city councilors and members of the magistrate persecuted under National Socialism 1933–1945 . Ed .: Christine Fischer-Defoy. Active Museum Association, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-00-018931-9 , p. 338 ff . ( limited preview in the Google book search - exhibition Berlin City Hall September 30 - November 30, 2005, Berlin House of Representatives June 8 - July 8, 2006).