Kurt von Stempel

Kurt Baron von Stempel (born April 15, 1882 in Gut Wittenheim-Sussey, Courland ( Aknīste District , Latvia ); † August 26, 1945 in Potsdam ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life and work

Kurt came from the Courland noble family of the Barons von Stempel . After passing the state examination , Stempel received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1904 with a thesis on questions of the law of obligations. In the same year he began his legal clerkship . In 1909 he became a court assessor and in 1911 a government assessor .

From 1915-16, Stempel was employed by the German military administration in Courland . 1916-17 he was a consultant in the news department of the Foreign Office . 1917-19 he followed Magnus Freiherr von Braun as district administrator of the district Wirsitz in the province of Posen . 1919-28, Stempel was district administrator of the Kolberg-Körlin district in the Pomeranian province . In 1928, Stempel temporarily resigned from civil service.

In 1928 he was appointed chief executive of the German and Prussian district council . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he had to give up this office and switched to the presidential department of the Reich Audit Office as director . In 1935, Stempel was retired.

literature

• Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt von Stempel: According to the German Civil Code, how do transfer of claims and assumption of debt differ with regard to their influence on claims, objections and ancillary rights? Abel, Greifswald 1904.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt von Stempel in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic