Max Weiß (officer)

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Max Weiß (born July 19, 1874 in Wittenberg ; † after 1944) was a German major , politician and district administrator as well as explorer and topographer in Central and East Africa.

Life

Max Weiß initially embarked on a military career. In 1895 he was transferred to the second lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Duke Karl von Mecklenburg-Strelitz" (6th East Prussian) No. 43 of the Prussian Army in Königsberg and in 1899 to the No. 1 railway regiment in Berlin. White later served as a captain in Infantry Regiment No. 148 . In 1901 he was assigned to the Reich Colonial Office. He completed a two-semester course at the University of Göttingen .

From 1902 to 1905 he was a member of the German-English border expedition in the north of German-East Africa . In 1906 he became the country's admission to the trigonometric department of the General Staff ordered. In 1907/08 he took part as a topographer in Duke Adolf Friedrich's German Central Africa Expedition of Mecklenburg . After his return, White was 1911 at the University of Rostock with the work "The historical development of photogrammetry and its significance for geographers and travelers research" as an active lieutenant Dr. phil. PhD . In 1912 he said goodbye to military service and transferred to the Reich Colonial Office.

During the First World War he was from 1914 to 1916 with the staff of the 8th and 9th Army . In 1916/17 he took part in the fighting on the Eastern and Western Fronts as a battalion commander in Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 226 . Most recently he served as a major in 1917/18 as a department head in the war press office.

From 1918, Weiß was active in the German National People's Party , initially on a voluntary basis, from June 1919 as State Managing Director in the Potsdam State Association, from 1920 then as General Manager of the party in Berlin until 1929. He also headed their German National Font Sales Office.

In 1933 he was initially provisional, and from 1934 on he was finally district administrator of the Niederbarnim district . He gave u. a. the administrative report "Five years of development work in the Niederbarn district from April 1, 1933 - March 31, 1938". His term of office probably ended in November 1944, when his successor Oskar Funk was appointed provisionally.

Publications

  • The ethnic groups in the north of German East Africa 1910. K. Marschner, Berlin 1910. (Reprint: New York, London: Johnson, 1971)
  • The historical development of photogrammetry and the reason for its usability for measuring and construction purposes. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1913.
  • What else can we hope for? Extended lecture on the topic: "The German Independents, Communists and Russian Bolshevik rule". on December 18, 1920 in Berlin. 1921. Berlin: German National Font Sales Office.
  • France's will to annihilate: a tool for all who seek the truth! A question to the foreign fountain publishing house, Berlin 1923.
  • German national policy from January 1925 to January 1927. German national font sales office. Berlin 1927
  • The National Will, Becoming and Working of the DNVP 1918–1928. 1928.
  • Five years of development work in the Niederbarn district on April 1, 1933-31. March 1938.
  • Between Schorfheide and Spree. Home book of the Niederbarnim Brunnen-Verlag district, Berlin 1940.

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SURNAME White, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH 20th century