Otto Ehrensberger

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Otto Ehrensberger (born January 18, 1887 in Essen , † May 16, 1968 in Munich ) was a German administrative lawyer, ministerial official and judge.

Life

Ehrensberger's father Emil Ehrensberger sat on the board of directors of Krupp AG . The mother was Pauline Bachofen from Echt .

Ehrensberger attended the Burggymnasium in Essen . On the evening of high school, he fell ill with scarlet fever . He spent the summer of 1905 in Switzerland to heal. In the winter semester of 1905/06 he was enrolled at the University of Lausanne . He then enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for law . Since May 23, 1906 Fuchs in the Corps Franconia Munich , he was reciprocated on February 23, 1907 . He proved himself as a senior and was inactivated on March 14, 1908 . He moved to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and passed the legal trainee examination at the Hamm Higher Regional Court in September 1909 . He then served as a one-year volunteer with the 4th Guards Field Artillery Regiment in Potsdam.

First World War

He took his regiment into the field in 1914. He remained in the 2nd Guard Division throughout the First World War . He changed the theater of war several times (Marne, Flanders, Galicia, Poland, the Baltic States). He was mainly used as an orderly officer of a guard field artillery brigade. After he had received the Iron Cross 2nd Class and had become Lieutenant in the Reserve , Wilhelm II personally awarded him the Iron Cross 1st Class in Riga . Shortly before the Compiègne armistice (1918) he was given exam leave. In December 1918 he passed the assessor examination in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior.

Internal administration

On February 1, 1919, he was transferred to the Siegen district as a government assessor. Three years later, he came as a Councilor and Head of the Department for occupation government in Dusseldorf . From January 1923 - in the chaotic year of the Weimar Republic - until September 1924 he represented District Administrator Erich Müser , who had been expelled after the Allied occupation of the Rhineland . He himself was expelled during the passive resistance on the Ruhr from July 1923 to September 1924, "because his presence in Düsseldorf disrupted peace and order and he posed a threat to the occupation troops".

In November 1924 he was appointed district administrator in the Silesian district of Ohlau . Transferred to the district of Schweidnitz in October 1932 , he came to the district of Recklinghausen as acting district administrator in July 1935 ; He was finally used in January 1936.

Reich Ministry of the Interior

As a district administrator in Schweidnitz he met Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and made friends with Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg . Yorck convinced Ehrensberger of the need to move to Berlin as the center of resistance. Appointed to the Reich Ministry of the Interior on August 1, 1938 , Ehrensberger took part in the meetings of the Kreisau Circle . He also made his offices available to them. Since January 1939 Ministerialrat and since September 1940 Ministerialdirektor , he was the superior of Hans Globke  - in the RMI. In contact with Adam von Trott zu Solz , Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg , Nikolaus Graf von Üxküll-Gyllenband , Caesar von Hofacker , Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , he worked with Albrecht von Kessel on the principles of a new imperial constitution . He suggested to the Reich Minister of the Interior, Heinrich Himmler , that Counts Yorck and Schulenburg be appointed to the RMI. That he was not liquidated under these circumstances after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , surprised him.

post war period

Released from automatic arrest in August 1946 , he moved into his father's house in Traunstein . In the post-war period he campaigned for Wilhelm Stuckart and Otto Müller-Haccius . From August 1948 to February 1954 he was a judge at the Bavarian Administrative Court . From 1956 to 1959 he was a member of the expert commission convened by the Federal Minister of the Interior to simplify administration at the BMI.

From 1956 to 1958 "Ehrensottel" was chairman of the Philistine Society of his corps. He was significantly involved in the revision of the rules of honor .

At the age of 74 he climbed the Breithorn (Zermatt) . In 1966 he wrote down his childhood memories for the family. The professional memories Servants of the People under Four Forms of State , begun in 1968, are broken off in 1932. Despite a relapsed illness, he traveled to Bonn at the beginning of May 1968 to have his only grandchild confirmed. From there he was taken to the Munich University Clinic, where he died at the age of 81.

family

In 1918 he married Charlotte Schmidt (1892–1976) from Essen in Niederweiler . With her he had two daughters and a son who died at Mahiljou in 1941 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c district administrators of the Recklinghausen district
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Obituary of the Corps Franconia Munich
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106/766
  4. ↑ a b Erich Lommatzsch: Hans Globke (2009)
  5. ↑ Günter Brakelmann: The Kreisauers: Consequential Encounters (2004)
  6. ↑ Like his father, the father-in-law Adolf Schmidt sat on the Krupp board of directors.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrensberger, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrensberger, Otto Adolf Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator, ministerial official and judge
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1968
Place of death Munich