Max von Bahrfeldt (District President)

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Max Karl Rudolf von Bahrfeldt (born August 20, 1880 in Stade , † May 8, 1964 in Landau (Palatinate) ) was a German administrative lawyer. He was a member of the DVP .

Life and work

He was the son of the infantry general and numismatist Dr. phil. hc Max von Bahrfeldt and Elisabeth Mary Charlotte (Ella) geb. Samwer (1859-1954). After graduation, Max von Bahrfeldt ( Jr. ) studied law at the Universities of Breslau, Berlin and Kiel. He was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. After passing the state examination and subsequent traineeship in Eckernförde , he worked as a government trainee in Gumbinnen , Darkehmen and Heydekrug . In 1907 he went to Schleswig as a government assessor and was appointed mayor and swimming pool director of Eckernförde in the same year. From 1909 to 1914 he worked as head of administration on Heligoland . 1914/15 and 1915–1920 he administered the district offices of the Bartenstein districts in East Prussia and Wanzleben in the province of Saxony . Before 1918 he was awarded the title of Privy Finance Councilor. In 1920 he became a Councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Finance. In 1925 he was appointed regional president of Königsberg in East Prussia. Since 1929 he also held a professorship with a teaching position for constitutional law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . From 1925 to 1929 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia .

When the Prussian state government under Otto Braun and Carl Severing was deposed at the Prussian strike, von Bahrfeldt was put up for discussion by the Papen cabinet in July 1932 and replaced by Werner Friedrich , the former district administrator of the Mohrungen district . After that he was curator of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University until 1935 . The topic of his doctoral thesis was the loss of citizenship through neutralization and through residence abroad according to current German and French national law . From 1939 to 1945 he was administrative director at the Berlin City Mission and “acting head” of the e. V. According to a decree of the Upper Church Council of October 20, 1939, he was responsible for "the tasks of management and the board of directors". As acting head of the Berlin City Mission, he added two more facilities to the existing facilities, the “Abendfrieden” retirement home in Berlin-Spindlersfeld and the “Sorgenfrei” residence in Berlin-Rahnsdorf .

From July 1, 1943, von Bahrfeldt was also the financial representative and curator for asset management of the Jerusalem and New Church Congregation in Berlin. In the course of this, he also took over the management of the so-called “cemetery camp” in Neukölln, in which more than 100 abducted civilians from the former Soviet Union were forced to do forced labor for the Evangelical Church during the Second World War. Under inhumane conditions, these slave labor had to do in the cemeteries of many Berlin parishes. On April 24, 1945, the camp was liberated by the Red Army. It was not until 2000 that the existence of the camp, which had been hidden up until then, was made public by the Evangelical Church and a research group was set up. Today an exhibition pavilion on the grounds of the cemetery commemorates the victims. Von Bahrfeldt never had to answer legally for his role in National Socialism.

In the fall of 1950, when the "division of the Berlin offices into East and West " took place due to the political post-war conditions, von Bahrfeldt was asked by the board of the Association for Berlin City Mission to renew his experience based on his existing expertise in asset management to provide. Most recently, von Bahrfeldt worked as a construction consultant in Berlin for the City Synod Association of the Evangelical Church .

Marital status and children

Max v. Bahrfeldt was married to Helene, née Elze. The marriage had three children: the sons Jürgen, born in 1912, and Jochen, born in 1915, and the daughter Ingrid, born in 1923.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933. Münster, July 26, 2009, p. 27. ( Online ; PDF , 0.3 MB).
  2. ↑ Keyword: Bahrfeldt, v. Max, K., R., Dr. jur., District President and Secret Finance Council. In: Reich Manual of the German Society. The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume. Publisher: Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag AG, Berlin 1931; Portrait photo in text.
  3. ^ Norbert Korfmache: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 6, digitized .
  4. ↑ Breslau, Univ., Diss., 1903. DNB 578795337
  5. ↑ 75 years of the Berlin City Mission, published by order of the board: Max Dietrich , Berlin, 1952, p. 16
  6. ↑ 75 years of the Berlin City Mission . Ed. On behalf of the Board of Directors: Max Dietrich, Berlin, 1952, p. 62
  7. ↑ Work report 1940 in the information sheet Die Stadtmission , 64th year, Berlin March 1941, No. 3, publisher: Verein für Berliner Stadtmission, responsible Pastor Ernst Bunke (* 1866; † 1944), print: Scholz-Druck, Berlin SW 61, at the seat of the former SM head office
  8. ^ Andreas Förster: Nazi past: Evangelical Church held forced laborers in Neukölln until 1945 . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on August 22, 2018]).
  9. ↑ God loves this city. 100 years of the Berlin City Mission. 1877-1977 . Editor: Berliner Stadtmission. Editing of the anniversary publication: Siegfried Dehmel, Berlin 1977, p. 64 "Dates and Events".
  10. ↑ 75 years of the Berlin City Mission . Ed. On behalf of the board of directors: Max Dietrich, Berlin, 1952, p. 16
  11. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 35/1957, August 1957
  12. ↑ Keyword: Bahrfeldt, v. Max, Dr. jur., District President and Secret Finance Council. In: Reich Manual of the German Society. The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume. Publisher: Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag AG, Berlin 1931
personal data
SURNAME Bahrfeldt, Max von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1964
Place of death Landau (Palatinate)