Konrad Schmidt-Torner

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Konrad Schmidt-Torner (born August 16, 1907 in Elberfeld , † October 17, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer at the Reichspost and the Deutsche Bundespost. Most recently he was President of the Bundesdruckerei.

Life

As the son of what would later become a post office manager, Schmidt-Torner spent his childhood in Danzig , Berlin and Königsberg . He attended the Schiller-Gymnasium Berlin and the Löbenichtsche Realgymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1926. For the summer semester 1926 enrolled him at the Vienna University of Law . In the next semester he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg and became active in the Corps Masovia . After the first exam he went through traineeship training in the area of ​​the Königsberg Higher Regional Court . In 1934 he passed the assessor's examination before the Chamber Court . After a short internship in a commercial company, he decided to pursue his father's career. He came to Bruchsal as a post graduate for the Reich Postal Directorate in Karlsruhe . He was transferred to Leipzig in 1937 , where he was appointed postal councilor in May 1938. After brief stops in Potsdam and Berlin , he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) in 1941 and initially served on the war front as a sergeant. Seconded to the army postmaster in 1942, he served in the western campaign and in the 6th Army . He escaped the battle of Stalingrad only because the army postmaster's staff happened to be outside the cauldron . He accompanied the new 6th Army up to the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht . From automatic arrest in Austria and Bavaria , he was able to return to Berlin in May 1945.

The Landespostdirektion Berlin promoted him in 1952 to the Oberpostrat. When it was technically integrated into the Deutsche Bundespost, Schmidt-Torner was "again" a federal civil servant. In 1955 he applied for a position at the Bundesdruckerei, which was subordinate to the Bundespost. He was taken over as government director and vice president of the agency. Promoted to senior government director, he became the first president (administration) in 1968 who was not a graduate engineer . When he retired in 1972 , the Federal President awarded him the Great Federal Cross of Merit . In 1960 he also received the ribbon of the Corps Palaiomarchia Halle in Hanover . From 1976 to 1990 he was the master of the lawless society in Berlin . His innermost inclinations were math and science . He shared his love for unspoiled nature with his wife. At the age of 85 he succumbed to prostate cancer .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 98/1116; 113/665.
  2. a b c d H.-H. Müller-Dieckert: Konrad Schmidt-Torner . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 90 (1993), pp. 119–121.
  3. ^ Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government (1968)
  4. ^ Lawless Society in Berlin