Karl von der Groeben (District Administrator)

Karl Moritz Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von der Groeben (born September 10, 1902 at Herrenhaus Divitz ; † January 1, 1989 in Lübeck ) was a German administrative lawyer and district administrator .

Life

Graf von der Groeben had a doctorate in law and lived on Gut Neudörfchen near Marienwerder . In 1922 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg . He worked from 1935 to 1945 as a district administrator in the Insterburg district . On April 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1,118,812). In the years 1939 to 1940 he was appointed as a deputy regional commissioner in Mława , the future Mielau district in the Zichenau administrative district annexed by Poland .

After the end of the war he worked from 1949 as a ministerial advisor in the Ministry of Social Affairs in Rhineland-Palatinate . He was also the deputy spokesman for the West Prussian Landsmannschaft .

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} German Aristocratic Archives (ed.): Groeben, Karl Moritz Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Genealogical handbook of the count's houses. Volume 19, Starke, Glücksburg 1959. p. 145.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 883
3. ↑ Ralf Meindl: Ostpreussens Gauleiter: Erich Koch : a political biography , Fiber-Verlag, 2007, p. 112. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
4. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Christian Petersen, Jan Kusber (ed.): New beginning in the west. 60 years of Eastern European research in Mainz. Steiner, Stuttgart 2007. p. 61.