Max Stavenhagen

Max Conrad Stavenhagen (born September 8, 1873 in Hamburg , † December 22, 1949 in Baden-Baden ) was a German officer , politician of the DNVP and Hamburg senator .

Life

Stavenhagen grew up in Hamburg and successfully attended high school. In 1893 he joined the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90 in Rostock to become an officer . In 1897 he became a regimental adjutant there . After training non-commissioned officers in Annaburg for some time , he successfully attended the Prussian War Academy from 1905 to 1908 . He was then transferred to the “Lübeck” infantry regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 in Lübeck . With this he went to the First World War in 1914 . After the Battle of Noyon , like the other company commanders , he was transferred as battalion commander in October 1914 . He came to RIR 90. After a serious wound in 1915, Stavenhagen returned to the front in 1916, meanwhile promoted to major , and in 1917 was commander of the machine gun sniper division (No. 64). After the end of the war in the winter of 1918, Stavenhagen retired from military service and became editor-in-chief of the Lübeck advertisements in Lübeck. In 1922 he moved to Hamburg, was a businessman active and founded the company MC Stavenhagen & Co .

Stavenhagen joined the DNVP in 1919 and became chairman of the Hamburg regional association in 1930. The Hamburg Parliament belonged Stavenhagen as floor leader of the DNVP 1931-1933. Since September 1931 there have been no governable majorities in the Hamburg bourgeoisie, the old Senate only governed to continue business. In this situation, Stavenhagen entered a coalition in 1933 under the leadership of the NSDAP . He was able to secure two senatorial posts for the DNVP, for himself and for Carl Julius Witt, who was little loved by the NSDAP .

On March 8, 1933, Stavenhagen was elected to the Hamburg Senate under Carl Vincent Krogmann , at a meeting at which the elected members of the KPD could no longer appear. Stavenhagen was responsible for the building department, but was dismissed from the Senate on May 18, 1933 on the initiative of the Reich Governor Karl Kaufmann , who was appointed on May 16, 1933 .

On June 10, 1933 he was rewarded with the lucrative post of first managing director of the state-owned Hamburg waterworks in gratitude for his services in the Nazi takeover of power, in particular for having formed a coalition . He held this position until his retirement on May 31, 1938.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herbert Michaelis, Ernst Schraepler and Günter Scheel (ed.): Causes and consequences. From the German collapse in 1918 and 1945 to the state reorganization of Germany in the present. A collection of certificates and documents on contemporary history. Biographical register. Part 2: L to Z. Document publishing house Wendler, Berlin 1979, p. 701
2. ^ Otto Dziobek: History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162, first edition 1922
3. ↑ There were two newspapers with this name, see Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , he must have been active in the right-wing 
4. ↑ see Uwe Schmidt: Teachers in lockstep: The National Socialist Teachers Association Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-937816-26-5 , p. 26, footnote 18