Ludwig Battenberg

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Ludwig Kurt Friedrich Battenberg (pseudonym: Kurt Eckehard ; born January 26, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 7, 1964 in Stuttgart ) was a German administrative lawyer . From 1931 to 1933 he was district administrator in the Oberamt Herrenberg and became president of the state insurance institutions Württemberg and Pfalz as well as the Oberversicherungsamt Stuttgart.

Life

Ludwig Battenberg was the son of the parish priest Friedrich Wilhelm Battenberg and his wife Mathilde nee Kolb. According to his own statements, his maternal ancestor was the judicial advisor Lindheimer in Wetzlar , who in turn was the great-grandfather of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

After attending grammar school in Frankfurt, he studied law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Marburg and Berlin. In 1911 he resigned his trainee exam, and in 1916 received his doctorate he became Dr. jur. From 1919 to 1921 he worked as a lawyer in Urach . In 1921 he was appointed chamber chairman at the Württemberger Oberversicherungsamt and supply court in Reutlingen . In 1923 he was appointed as a clerk in the Münsingen Oberamt . As such, he was the deputy of the local chief bailiff. In 1924 Ludwig Battenberg joined the DNVP , in which he was actively involved until 1928. Then in 1925 he was appointed assistant reporter and government councilor at the Württemberg ministry department for district and corporate administration in Stuttgart. In 1931 he was elected district administrator in Herrenberg. During this time he published the text Fieberkurve oder Zeitenwende? With JF Lehmann in Munich under the pseudonym Kurt Eckehard . Reflecting on National Socialism , which was published in its fourth edition by 1933. In August 1932 he himself became a member of the NSDAP in Speyer .

After he had assumed an office in the Ministry of the Interior in Stuttgart for the National Socialists in 1933 and was appointed State Commissioner for Corporate Administration in Württemberg, he was appointed President of the Württemberg State Insurance Institute in August 1933, and in 1936 he took over the Palatinate State Insurance Institute and as President of the Stuttgart Upper Insurance Office.

In 1933/34 Ludwig Battenberg was corps leader of the Tübingen Stuttgardia, whereupon he resigned. His request for readmission was rejected in 1949.

In 1939 Ludwig Battenberg was suspended from duty and expelled from the NSDAP. Two years later the exclusion from the party was reduced to a disciplinary punishment. In the denazification process he was classified as a follower after the end of the Second World War . In 1949 he retired. In 1964 he died in the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart

family

Ludwig Battenberg married Johanna nee Böckträger on March 25, 1920. Their marriage resulted in four children, including the publisher Ernst Battenberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Ruck: Korpsgeist und Staatsconsciousness: Officials in the German Southwest 1928–1972 , 2014, page 109.
  2. ↑ Ibid.
  3. ↑ Ibid., Page 110.
  4. ↑ 125 years of the German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate
personal data
SURNAME Battenberg, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Battenberg, Ludwig Kurt Friedrich (full name); Eckehard, Kurt (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1964
Place of death Stuttgart