Ludwig Kattenstroth

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Ludwig Kattenstroth (born March 13, 1906 in Kattenstroth , Wiedenbrück district ; † August 31, 1971 in Bonn - Bad Godesberg ) was a German civil servant and both State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Treasury and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs .

Life

Studies and professional career up to the Second World War

After high school in 1925 at the Evangelical School Stiftisches Gütersloh , he completed a three-year vocational training in a silk weaving and was then as a clerk operates. After he graduated from 1928-1932 studying law and political science at the University of Tübingen , University of Kiel , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and, after completion of the Studied research assistant at the law faculty there . There he initially worked at the chair of Martin Wolff , who lost his teaching license in 1934 because of his Jewish origins and emigrated to England in 1938 .

Subsequently, in 1934 he became a consultant at the Reichsgruppe Industrie, the successor organization to the Reichsstandes der Deutschen Industrie (RDI) , before he finally took up a position as a lawyer in 1939 . In 1940 he joined the staff of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands and then in 1941 the military commander in France , and came here recently during the Second World War in French captivity .

After the end of the Second World War, he was employed in the documents department of the International Military Court in Nuremberg in 1947 and in the economic administration of the United Economic Area in 1948 , where he was head of the legal department.

Promotion to State Secretary in the Federal Republic

With the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany , Kattenstroth was employed in 1949 as head of Department II (economic system, since 1953 economic system and promotion) in the Federal Ministry of Economics . In 1953 he was accepted as a civil servant and was appointed ministerial director . In 1954 he became Head of Department Z (Central Department) before he was Head of Department III of the Federal Ministry of Economics from 1956 to 1962, which was responsible for mining , energy and water management , iron and steel and the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) . This made Kattenstroth one of the closest employees of Federal Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard during the time of the economic miracle .

In 1962 he moved to the Federal Chancellery , where he was head of Department II responsible for economics, finance and social affairs for a year.

Following this activity, he first became State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Treasury on June 5, 1963, before he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs between 1965 and 1969. In 1969 he wrote the treatise Productive Social Policy for the CDU Economic Council .

Others

In 1953 he married Annie Kattenstroth b. Emperor. He was a member of the student associations VDSt Kiel and VDSt Tübingen in the VVDSt . His estate is in the German Federal Archives .

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. Federal Archives
  2. Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 107.