Max von Stockhausen

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Maximilian 'Max' Theodor Eduard Bernhard von Stockhausen (born February 11, 1890 in Koblenz , † January 31, 1971 at Gut Stockhausen near Meschede ) was a German lawyer and government official. He achieved political importance as personal advisor to the Reich Chancellor (1923–1928) and as District President in Arnsberg .

Live and act

Max von Stockhausen was born in 1890 as the son of the Prussian officer and landowner of the same name Max von Stockhausen (1862–1944) and his wife Kunigunde, b. v. Guérard (1865–1929), born. The father reached his career high point in World War I , in which he was promoted to major general. One of Stockhausen's maternal uncle was the politician and Reich Minister Theodor von Guérard .

Stockhausen spent his youth on the family estate (Gut Stockhausen) near Meschede. After graduating from high school and serving the military, Stockhausen studied law. In 1911 he entered the Prussian civil service as a trainee lawyer with the district government in Münster . From 1914 he took part in the First World War as a reserve officer. After the war he returned to the administrative service. From 1918 and 1920 Stockhausen worked in the Warendorf district office . He then moved to the Recklinghausen district office as a government assessor . In the same year he was entrusted with the management of the district of Oberglogau .

In 1922 Stockhausen was transferred to the Reich Chancellery in Berlin as an assessor . There he was promoted successively to the government council and finally to the senior government council. From 1923 he was the personal advisor to the Reich Chancellor. In this function he was one of the close collaborators of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and Hans Luther .

In 1926 Stockhausen joined the Center Party . On July 1 of the same year he married the Westphalian noblewoman Marie Antoinette von Papen (1906–1993), a daughter of the landowner and politician Franz von Papen , a leading figure in the right wing of the Center Party. The marriage resulted in a total of six children between 1927 and 1948. Like Papen, Stockhausen left the Center Party in 1932 and moved closer to the DNVP.

From 1928 to 1933 Stockhausen officiated as the successor to the late Otto Graf von Westphalen as district administrator of the Lüdinghausen district . After Max König's politically motivated dismissal , Stockhausen was appointed district president of Arnsberg in 1933.

In 1935 Stockhausen was put into temporary retirement and finally decommissioned in 1940. The dismissal took place because Stockhausen had refused to join the NSDAP . Thereupon a telegram from Adolf Hitler ordered Stockhausen's dismissal.

After his release, Stockhausen lived in seclusion on his estate near Meschede. After the Second World War , Stockhausen published an autobiography about his time in the Reich Chancellery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Schulte-Hobein: Between democracy and dictatorship - the rise of National Socialism in the district administrations of the Hochsauerlandkreis , in: Becoming, growing, working. From the changing times. District administrations in the Hochsauerlandkreis from 1817 to 2007 , Meschede, 2007. P. 181.
  2. ↑ Ottilie Knepper-Babilon / Hannelie Kaiser-Löffler: Resistance against National Socialism in the Sauerland , Brilon 2003, p. 23.
  3. ^ Rainer Bookhagen: The Evangelical Child Care and the Inner Mission in the Time of National Socialism , p.343 , Schulte-Hobein, p. 181

Fonts

  • History of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 7 , 1941.
  • Walter Görlitz (ed.) / Max von Stockhausen: Six years Reich Chancellery. From Rapallo to Locarno, memories and diary notes 1922–1927 , Bonn 1954.

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predecessor Office successor
Max King District President of the Arnsberg District
1933–1935 		Ludwig Runte
personal data
SURNAME Stockhausen, Max von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1971
Place of death Gut Stockhausen near Meschede