Karl boots

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Karl Alexander Stiefel (born June 29, 1902 in Mannheim ; † August 7, 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German administrative lawyer who became known for an extensive publication on the history and administrative history of the state of Baden .

Life

Boots studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Law and laid in 1928 the second legal state examination. He had been a member of the Karlsruhensia student union since 1920 . On June 15, 1928, he entered the Baden state service and on April 17, 1929, was a member of the government at the Emmendingen district office .

In the service of the National Socialists

After a stopover in Kehl , he was deployed to the Karlsruhe police headquarters from May 16, 1934. In February / March 1935 he worked in the Baden Ministry of the Interior and then on April 24, 1935, he moved to the district office in Lörrach . In 1936 he was back in the Karlsruhe police headquarters. On August 16, 1939, Karl Pflaumer , Baden's Minister of the Interior, appointed him provisional and on April 25, 1940, he was appointed regular District Administrator of Buchen , which led to resentment among the Reich Governor. Stiefel "enjoyed little respect in party and SS circles as a diligent opportunist with a blurred Nazi profile." The American military government deposed him as district administrator with effect from April 1, 1945, after he had fled and was arrested in Ulm . He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 and of the SS since 1938 . He was interned from May 26, 1945 to July 23, 1947 - most recently in the Ludwigsburg camp . Since his denazification file has disappeared from the Freiburg State Archives , no details are known.

Promotion in the Federal Republic of Germany

In 1949 he became an employee of the Baden state credit institution for housing . From February 1950 he worked in the Ministry of the Interior of what was then the state of Baden in Freiburg and was promoted to government councilor on April 18. The interior minister of the CDU government under Leo Wohleb was Alfred Schühly . On May 2, 1950, he was appointed as a substitute judge at the Baden Administrative Court in Freiburg and was promoted to the Higher Administrative Court on April 23, 1951.

After the state of Baden in the newly formed south-western state of Baden-Württemberg , Stiefel became a member of the Stuttgart Administrative Court in 1953 and its director in 1956. In 1958 he rose to the higher administrative judge at the Senate of Freiburg of the administrative court of Baden-Württemberg . From 1959 to 1960 he was department head in the Ministry of the Interior and then Senate President at the Administrative Court in Stuttgart. Most recently he was President of the Administrative Court and Chairman of the Karlsruhe Criminal Service Chamber.

The historian

After his retirement in 1967, Stiefel dealt in particular with the completion of his extensive history of Baden in the period from 1648 to 1952 and the very detailed administrative history of Baden incorporated into it. For a total of 30 years, he collected material that filled ten files. He did not live to see their publication. The work was published by his widow Margarete Stiefel (née Ancke) and the Verein für Oberrheinische Rechts- und Verwaltungsgeschichte eV in 1977 in two volumes with 2104 pages. For the 50th anniversary of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the support association of the General State Archives Karlsruhe published a reprint of the long out of print work in 2002. The reference work is regarded as a counterpart to Alfred Dehlinger's work, Württemberg's state in its historical development until today . The final editing was done by Kurt Ulrich Bauch and the registers were created by Rudolf Haas.

literature

  • Michael Ruck : Karl Stiefel. In: The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg 1810 to 1972 , published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly, Stuttgart 1996. pp. 544–545.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Ruck: Korpsgeist und Staatsconsciousness: Officials in the German Southwest 1928–1972 , p. 162, digitized
  2. ↑ see Albus-Kötz
  3. ^ Karl Stiefel: Baden 1648 - 1952. two volumes, 1st edition, Karlsruhe 1977, ISBN 3-930158-07-8 ; according to Ruck p. 545 there was a second edition in 1979, but this cannot be found in the German National Library
  4. ↑ at the German National Library the identification number of Karl Alexander Stiefel is erroneously not linked to that of his work (115129510)
  5. ^ Karl Stiefel, Baden 1648-1952 (reprint). Foundational work on the constitutional and administrative history of Baden, sought after for the state anniversary, is available again. ; the reprint appeared in 2001 at the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Boots, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiefel, Karl Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1973
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau