Otto Junghann

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Otto Junghann, 1928

Otto Junghann (born September 29, 1873 in Königshütte , Silesia , † October 25, 1964 ) was a Prussian district administrator , district president . He was also the head of various international organizations and an activist for minority rights.

Life

family

Junghann was born on September 29, 1873 as the son of the General Director of the United Königs- and Laurahütte AG and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives Otto Junghann senior. Born in Königshütte in the Prussian province of Silesia . On August 9, 1904, he married Margarete Haniel in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

Career

From 1893 Junghann studied law at the universities of Lausanne , Heidelberg and Berlin . During his studies he joined the student union Germania Lausanne and the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . After his studies and the subsequent first state examination in law in 1896, he worked as a chamber trainee, wrote his dissertation and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD .

Then he did military service in the 1st Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment No. 4 in the Hanseatic city of Thorn in the then province of West Prussia , where he later became lieutenant , first lieutenant and Rittmeister d. R. was. In 1904 he completed his legal clerkship with a subsequent 2nd state examination and he married Margarete Haniel in Mülheim ad Ruhr. From 1906 he worked as a government assessor for the government in Wiesbaden and for the district administrator of the Hessian Rheingau district in Rüdesheim am Rhein . Soon afterwards, in 1907, he was employed at the German Consulate General in Shanghai in the then still existing German Empire , and from 1908 he worked as an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry in Berlin.

In 1911 he was appointed district administrator of the Grünberg district in Grünberg in what was then the Prussian province of Silesia . He held this office for eight years until 1917. From 1917 he was employed as a ministerial assistant to the Prussian State Commissioner for People's Nutrition. From 1917 to 1919 he was also President of the Reich Potato Office in the Reich Food Office in Berlin. In 1919 he was appointed President of the Government District of Köslin in the Prussian province of Pomerania . He held this office for six years.

Junghann resigned from civil service in 1925. In the same year, shortly before Germany was admitted to the League of Nations in September 1926, the forerunner of the United Nations (UN) , he was involved as Vice President of the World Association of League of Nations and until 1939 as Managing Director of the German League for the League of Nations in Berlin, in the he was a member and temporarily chairman of the minority committee.

In 1952 he was one of the founding members of the Society for the United Nations in Berlin, of which he was appointed honorary chairman. In exercising these functions, he worked tirelessly for minorities before and also during the Second World War. His correspondence from 1925 to 1955 is in the Federal Archives .

He was also president of the Institute for Border and Foreign Studies (IGA) in Berlin and from 1929 director of the Deutsche Rentenbank-Kreditanstalt . Between 1925 and 1933 he published a number of papers on the problems of minorities. At the same time, Junghann was a permanent delegate at the European Nationalities Congress .

Honors

For his services he received the Prussian Red Eagle Order 4th Class, the Iron Cross 2nd Class with a White Ribbon, the Red Cross Medal 3rd Class, the Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid , the Lippian Cross of Merit and the Silesian Eagle Medal.

Publications

  • Otto Junghann: The minority protection procedure before the League of Nations. Mohr, Tübingen 1934
  • Otto Junghann: On the question of the form of a permanent minority commission in the League of Nations. Braumüller, Vienna 1933
  • Otto Junghann: National minorities in Europe. Convici, Friede, New York 1932
  • Otto Junghann: The national minority. Zentral-Verlag, Berlin 1931
  • Otto Junghann: The Origin and Solution of the Problem of National Minorities. W. Braumüller, Vienna 1929
  • Otto Junghann: Origin and Solution of the Problem of the National Minorities. W. Braumüller, Vienna 1929
  • Otto Junghann: The German League for the League of Nations. German League for the League of Nations , Berlin 1925

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Junghann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Hinz (Ed.): Ruperto-Carola . Announcements from the Association of Friends of the Student Union. XVII. Volume 38, December 1965, p. 357.
  2. ^ See: Tara Zahra, Assistant Professor of East European History: What Would it Mean to "Transnationalize" German History? Thoughts From the Borderlands. P. 5.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64 , 885
  4. ↑ a b Reinhold Zilch: Acta Borussica - New episode. 1st row: The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Volume 10: July 14, 1909 to November 11, 1918. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 1999, p. 398.
  5. ↑ Cf. Carole Fink, professor of history at Ohio State, University: Defender of minorities: Germany in the League of Nations, 1926–1933. Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association, 1972
  6. ↑ Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann: The European Nationalities Congress 1925 to 1938. National minorities between lobbying and great power interests. Herder Institute, 2000, pp. 273-285.
personal data
SURNAME Junghann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, district president in Köslin (1919–1925)
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Königshütte , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1964