Manfred Pfister (lawyer)

Manfred Pfister (born July 22, 1879 in Überlingen , † September 13, 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; Protestant) was a lawyer and district administrator in the Baden state service since 1907 .

family

Manfred Pfister was the son of Heinrich Karl Pfister (born May 11, 1830 in Homburg in front of the height , † January 26, 1912 in Heidelberg ), senior official and secret councilor .

education

After studying law at the University of Heidelberg , he was appointed a legal intern after the first state examination in 1902. In 1905 he was awarded a Dr. iur. doctorate and after the second state examination on November 19, 1906 appointed as trainee lawyer.

career

In April 1907 Manfred Pfister was hired by the Baden interior administration and from June 10, 1915 he was employed as a clerk at the district office of Lörrach . On March 6, 1920 he was transferred to the Bruchsal district office and in 1923 to the Bretten district office , where he was promoted to senior administrator in 1923. In 1926 the heads of the district offices were given the title of district administrator. Pfister became police director in Pforzheim in 1928 and was given leave of absence from the National Socialist regime on March 9, 1933 . From September 25, 1933, he was used again in a subordinate position and from August 20, 1934 as a second civil servant, this was a demotion , employed with the old title of District Administrator at the Freiburg District Office . From May 5, 1945, he was first appointed by the French military government as provisional district administrator and then until August 7, 1946 as provisional state commissioner in Freiburg. Eventually he was retired on September 30, 1947.

Memberships

• 1930 to 1933 German Democratic Party (DDP)
• Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ), not a NSDAP member
• Advisory board of the Baden Youth Welfare Office
• 1947 Chairman of the denazification - Spruchkammer Freiburg IV (Günterstal, Kyburg)

Awards

• 1916 Baden War Merit Cross
• 1917 Bavarian King Ludwig Cross
• 1918 Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid

literature

• Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997 . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , p. 161.