Magnus von Braun (politician)

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Magnus Freiherr von Braun (born February 7, 1878 on Gut Neucken , Prussian Eylau district ; † August 29, 1972 in Oberaudorf ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician ( DNVP ). In the last two governments of the Weimar Republic he served as Minister of Agriculture (1932/32). One of his sons was armaments and rocket manager Wernher von Braun .

Cabinet Papen , von Braun in the front row on the left

family

His parents were Maximilian von Braun (March 20, 1833 - March 11, 1918) and his wife Eléonore von Brand widowed Gostkowski (April 17, 1842 - May 5, 1928). On July 12, 1910, Magnus von Braun married Emmy von Quistorp (1886–1959), the daughter of the landowner and Prussian politician Wernher von Quistorp (1856–1908) and Marie von Below ( 1861–1908 ) at Gut Crenzow ( Greifswald district , Western Pomerania ). 1903). His sons were Sigismund von Braun ( diplomat ), Wernher von Braun (rocket researcher and designer of the A4 and Saturn of the Apollo program) and Magnus von Braun (engineer, manager at Chrysler ).

Life

After graduating from high school, Braun studied law and political science in Göttingen and Königsberg . In Göttingen he joined the Corps Saxonia in 1896 . He finished his studies in 1902 with the first state examination and in 1905 with the second state examination, then entered the Prussian civil service and initially worked in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. From 1911 to 1915 he was district administrator in the Wirsitz district ( Posen province ). In 1915 he was transferred to the Reich Office of the Interior and in 1917 promoted to Ministerial Director and Press Officer in the Reich Chancellery . At the end of 1917 he was appointed head of the political department of the German military administration in Vilnius , and in 1918 he served temporarily as city governor in Dünaburg .

In 1919 he initially worked as a provisional police chief in Stettin , before taking on the position of personal advisor in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior under the Social Democratic Minister Wolfgang Heine . Criticism from the SPD parliamentary group of his conservative administration, especially when filling district council positions, led to his dismissal and simultaneous appointment as regional president in Gumbinnen in East Prussia . As a result of the Kapp Putsch , he had to resign from civil service in March 1920.

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Braun was active in agricultural associations. From 1920 he was the director of the Raiffeisen cooperatives for Brandenburg , Schleswig-Holstein and the border region of Posen-West Prussia . In 1930 he became Vice President of the Reich Association of Agricultural Cooperatives.

Braun's manor Oberwiesenthal (today Bystrzyca) in the Löwenberg district in Silesia

On June 1, 1932, he was appointed Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture and Reich Commissioner for Aid to the East in the government led by Chancellor Franz von Papen and remained in office in the subsequent government led by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher . On January 28, 1933, he resigned from his offices with the entire Schleicher cabinet . He was also Reich Commissioner for the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture from October 1932 to February 1933. Then he retired to his Silesian manor Oberwiesenthal.

Family grave at the Oberaudorf church cemetery

In 1947 he followed his son Wernher von Braun to the United States , but returned to Germany in 1952 and then lived in Landshut . He later moved to Oberaudorf am Inn , where he died in 1972. The family tomb is also located there.

Fonts

  • From East Prussia to Texas. Experiences and contemporary historical considerations of an East German . Stollhamm 1955. From the third, revised edition under the title: Weg durch vier Zeitepochen. From the East Prussian manor life of the fathers to the space exploration of the son in America . Limburg, 1965.

Web links

Commons : Magnus von Braun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser , 1868, p. 88, digitized
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45 , 475
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Magnus of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Magnus Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DNVP), Reich Minister
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Neucken, Prussian Eylau district
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1972
Place of death Oberaudorf