Max Peters (civil servant)
Max Peters (born October 7, 1856 in Berlin ; † May 17, 1933 ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official.
biography
After completing his law studies , he first became a court trainee in 1877 . He then joined the civil service and in 1882 he became first Regierungsassessor and 1888 the Government promoted. In 1892 he joined the Ministry of Public Works as an unskilled worker and was appointed a secret councilor in 1896. In 1899 he was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council and then in 1906 to the Real Secret Upper Government Council. In 1908 he was appointed ministerial director and head of the department for waterways in the Prussian Ministry for Public Works. In 1916 he was appointed Real Privy Councilor with the right of address as "Excellency" .
From 1919 to 1921 he was first Undersecretary and then State Secretary in the Ministry for Public Works in Prussia. At the same time he was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Transport in 1919 , where he was also entrusted with the management of the Waterways Department until August 1920. In addition, he was chairman of the advisory board for state waterways in 1919. His successor as State Secretary and Head of the Waterways Department in the Reich Ministry of Transport was Paul Kirschstein on September 1, 1920 .
After his temporary retirement in 1921, he was appointed Prussian authorized representative for Rhine shipping in 1922 .
Max Peters died in 1933 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Dahlem Forest Cemetery in Berlin, which opened in the same year . The grave has not been preserved.
Works
- Shipping taxes, part 1: The legal situation . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11127546-2 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
- Shipping taxes on natural waterways according to German imperial law: a response to the criticism of the Professor of Rights Dr. Otto Mayer in Leipzig . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 15-0011-175003 .
- Shipping taxes, 2nd and 3rd part: The economic situation / the transport-political situation . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11127547-7 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
- Waterways and inland shipping in: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte, Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell a . a. 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.
Web links
- Max Peters in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 576, 586.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peters, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ministerial official and state secretary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1933 |