Karl Wever

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Karl OE Wever (born July 15, 1882 in Wilhelmsort ; † 1965 ) was a German lawyer and civil servant. Among other things, he was the permanent deputy of the State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery from 1921 to 1923 .

Life

Wever was the son of the manor owner Arnold Wever , who was temporarily director of the German settlement bank, and his wife Martha, née Dreßler. His younger brother was the general and at times Chief of Staff of the Air Force Walther Wever . After attending the Humanist High School in Steglitz, which he left with the Abitur in 1902, Wever studied law at the University of Berlin. In 1906 he passed the trainee examination. He then completed his legal preparatory service at the Berlin-Lichterfelde District Court and the Berlin II Regional Court . After being appointed court assessor, Wever was employed as an unskilled worker at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and the Charlottenburg magistrate from 1911 .

In 1912 Wever moved to the Niederbarnim district office as a government assessor , where he stayed until December 1914. From then on he worked first as a provisional and then as a permanent unskilled worker at the Reich Office of the Interior , where he was entrusted with the management of the department for maritime shipping. In this position he made a name for himself by drafting two bills for the subsidy of mail steamer and to improve safety at sea. For January 27, 1918 Wever received a position as Councilor in the Reich Economics Office or - after renaming this authority in 1919 - the Ministry of Economics , where he remained until June 30, 1919th

On July 1, 1919, at the instigation of State Secretary Albert , Wever was transferred to the Reich Chancellery , where he served as a senior civil servant for the next four years. During this time he was promoted to secret government councilor , ministerial councilor and lecturer council in turn . From November 1921 to July 1923 he held office in particular as permanent deputy to the State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery. In this position and as an economic expert, he took part in the Reparations Conference in Genoa in 1922.

On August 19, 1923, Wever was put into temporary retirement for health reasons . After his recovery, he was on 1 February 1925 as Assistant Secretary at the service of the Reich Ministry of Finance asked where he from 1 February 1925 to May 8, 1945, the salaries and property department or for a reclassification of the Ministry in 1937, the enlarged department "Salary" (IV) headed. In this capacity he was promoted to Ministerial Director on April 22, 1937 . Finance Minister Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk Wever , who was in office from 1932 to 1945, showed particular esteem, who , as a particularly knowledgeable man, made him one of his closest collaborators.

During the Second World War Wever was involved in organizing the employment of forced laborers in the German Reich. He was also a representative of the Reich Ministry of Finance in the so-called "Committee of Three" made up of the Reich Chancellery, the Reich Ministry of Finance and the Reich Ministry of Economics , to which the coordination of war financing and the simplification of administration was assigned in the course of the " total war " proclaimed in 1943 . With substantial support from the representative of the Reich Chancellery, Friedrich Kritzinger , this body succeeded in "regaining at least part of its former strong position in budget matters" for the Reich Ministry of Finance.

Wever's estate, which among other things contains his previously unpublished memories, is today kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz as N 1203 .

literature

  • Maximilian Müller-Jabusch: Handbook of Public Life , 1930, p. 27.
  • Dieter Rebentisch : Führer State and Administration in World War II: Constitutional Development and Administrative Policy 1939-1945 , Stuttgart 1989.
  • Peter Christian Witt: “Conservatism as 'non-partisan'. The officials of the Reich Chancellery between the Empire and the Weimar Republic 1900-1933 ”, in: Dirk Stegmann (Ed.): German Conservatism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Fritz Fischer on his 75th birthday and on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate , Berlin 1983, p. 277.
  • Who is who? , Vol. 10, 1935, p. 1722.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Kuller: Bureaucracy and crime. Anti-Semitic Financial Policy and Administrative Practice in National Socialist Germany , Oldenbourg, 2013, p. 66.
  2. ^ Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk: Memoiren , 1977, p. 170.
  3. ^ Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction. The economic empire of the SS: Oswald Pohl and the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933-1945 , 2001, p. 89f.
  4. ^ Dieter Rebentisch: Führer State and Administration in the Second World War. Constitutional Development and Administrative Policy 1939-1945 , 1989, p. 487.
  5. ^ Entry on Wever in the bequest database
personal data
SURNAME Wever, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wever, Karl OE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmsort
DATE OF DEATH 1965