Klaus von der Groeben

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Klaus von der Groeben (born January 7, 1902 in Langheim , East Prussia , † January 23, 2002 in Kiel ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official.

Life

Langheim Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Klaus von der Groeben came from the originally Brandenburg noble family von der Groeben . He was the son of the East Prussian landowner Georg von der Groeben and his wife Eva von Mirbach . His younger brother Hans von der Groeben was also an administrative lawyer and a ministerial official.

East Prussia

Groeben attended the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg i. Pr. After high school he studied law and political science at the University of Königsberg , at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg . In 1922 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . After the legal state examination and the legal traineeship, he worked between 1932 and 1933 as a consultant to the Commissioner for Osthilfe in Königsberg. In February 1932 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . 1933-36 he was employed as a government councilor in the Prussian and Reich Ministry of the Interior . In 1936 he became district administrator of the Königsberg district . From 1939 until the end of the Second World War he was district administrator of the new Samland district , which he was one of the last to leave in April 1945. At the same time, from October 1939 to April 1940 he was district administrator in the annexed Praschnitz (Przasnysz) district, from February 1942 to August 1942 personnel officer in the administration of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine in Rowno and from spring 1943 to September 1944 in representation of district administrator of the Labiau district .

Schleswig-Holstein

On January 5, 1953, he was elected managing director of the district council of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1956 he was appointed district administrator for the Stormarn district . As early as 1957 he moved to the Interior Ministry of Schleswig-Holstein as Ministerial Director, where he was later promoted to State Secretary . Groeben coined the nationwide "groundbreaking" state administration law . As a keen sea sailor, he was a member of the board of the Lübeck Yacht Club from 1950 to 1958 . Retired on January 31, 1967 , Groeben, succeeding Herbert Ziemer , was in charge of the fiduciary asset management of the Mecklenburg properties in the municipalities of Ziethen and Bäk and the domains until March 1, 1981 as the local agent of the burden equalization bank and the Federal Minister of the Interior Römnitz and Mechow , who came to the Duchy of Lauenburg District through the Barber-Lyaschtschenko Agreement . The laudation for the honorary doctorate was given by Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig . Groeben was a member of the CDU . He died shortly after his 100th birthday. He was co-founder and co-editor (1968–1985) of the magazine Die Verwaltung .

family

On December 19, 1953, Groeben married Christiane Gerstein (born June 19, 1924 in Hagen), a daughter of the manufacturer Maxilimian Gerstein and his wife Carola geb. Kubier. The daughter Susanne Eva Marei (born February 10, 1955 in Kiel) and the son Daniel Carl Georg Maximilian (born August 18, 1956 in Bad Oldesloe) emerged from the marriage.

Honors

Fonts

  • The end in East Prussia. The course of events in Samland 1944–1945.
  • In the service of the state and the community: Memories , 2nd edition. Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel 1996
  • Administration and politics 1918–33 using the example of East Prussia . 2nd, expanded edition. Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at Christian Albrechts University, Kiel 1988
  • The public administration in the field of tension of politics, illustrated by the example of East Prussia . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1979
  • District administrators in East Prussia . Grote, Cologne & Berlin 1972
  • Disparities in rural areas . German District Assembly, Bonn 1970
  • The fulfillment of general and police tasks
  • The provinces of East and West Prussia 1818–1945
  • Personalities of the German administration 1648–1945 .
  • The Mecklenburg property assets in the municipalities of Ziethen, Mechow, Bäk and Römnitz . 1983
  • The country of East Prussia. Self-preservation, self-development, self-administration 1750 to 1945 . Sources on administrative history, No. 7, Lorenz von Stein Institute for Administrative Sciences at Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel 1993
  • Origin and significance of the Schleswig-Holstein State Administration Act for constitutional administrative law
  • Nikolaus Christoph v. Halem in the resistance against the Third Reich . Böhlau, Vienna Cologne 1990.
  • with Fried v. Batocki: Adolf von Batocki. A picture of life, in action for East Prussia and the Reich . Raisdorf 1998.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 66/1388
  2. ^ Sebastian Lehmann: District leader of the NSDAP in Schleswig-Holstein. Résumés and rulership practices of a regional power elite. Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-653-8 , note 1111 on p. 261.
  3. ↑ In the service for the state and the community , p. 158 f.
  4. ^ Walter Klappstein: The state administrative law Schleswig-Holstein and the administrative procedural law of the federal government . NordÖR 2000, pp. 143–148
  5. ↑ Lübeck Yacht Club (ed.): The Lübeck Yacht Club and 100 changeful years , Lübeck 1998
  6. ↑ Georg Bitter: The Prussian Government in Königsberg 1918–1945 , Rautenberg, 1988 p. 140. ( Online at Google Book Search ).
  7. ↑ On p. 32 ff. He reports on his membership in the NSDAP.
personal data
SURNAME Groeben, Klaus from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Langheim , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2002
Place of death Kiel