Oskar Funk

Karl Hugo Oskar Funk (born December 15, 1896 in Neidenburg ; † unknown) was a German district administrator and administrative judge .

Life

Oskar Funk studied law and passed both state exams. He was initially employed by the district administration in Burgdorf, by the district governments in Schleswig and Allenstein and by the high presidium in Königsberg. From 1932 to 1934 he was district administrator in the Sensburg district . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . On April 1, 1934, he succeeded Erich Moewes as District Administrator of the Grafschaft Schaumburg district , which he remained until September 1944 with a brief interruption. In 1940 he was called up for military service and during this time he was represented by Richard Seebohm , the former Stadthagen district administrator . In September 1942, Funk was placed in the UK .

Like his predecessor Ernst Moewes, Funk came into conflict with Kreisleiter Reineking, about whose corruption and abuse he complained. According to Funk, the NSDAP finally forced him out of office in 1944. He then became district administrator in the Hameln-Pyrmont district (provisional) from January to October 1944 and in the Niederbarnim district from November 1944 to April 1945.

After the Second World War he joined the CDU , for which he ran in the federal election in 1949 in the Neustadt constituency - Grafschaft Schaumburg . With 11.2% of the vote, however, he was only fourth behind the SPD candidate Ernst Weltner (34.5%), the candidate of the German party (21.6%) and a single applicant (15.0%). On August 29, 1950, Funk was appointed to the Administrative Court Council at the Administrative Court of Braunschweig , Lüneburg Chambers, and was transferred to Hanover on April 25, 1951. There he was from July 14, 1953 until his retirement in 1961, administrative court director.

literature

• Dieter Poestges: The Rinteln district administrators in Prussian times. In: Schaumburger Heimat. Messages from the Heimatbund of Grafschaft Schaumburg e. V. 14, 1983, p. 62.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register of the Neidenburg registry office No. 131/1896.
2. ↑ Gerd Steinwascher : Seizure of power, resistance and persecution in Schaumburg. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. Volume 62, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1990, p. 36.
3. ↑ Funk, Oskar . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 343 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).