Otto Ulrich Bährens

Otto Ulrich Bährens (born May 9, 1911 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † February 5, 2007 in Bad Hersfeld ) was a German politician .

Life

Born as the son of a chemist , Bährens studied law and political science as well as economics in Jena and Berlin . During his studies in 1929 he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity . In 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP . In 1933 he was a trainee lawyer at the Court of Appeal and passed his second state examination in 1937. As a result, he became a representative of the district administrator in the district of Wohlau in 1937 . In 1938 he was transferred to the trade department of the district president in Düsseldorf . In 1939 he became deputy district administrator in the district of Tepl . In the same year he became district administrator in Oschersleben and then from 1940 he was government councilor in Allenstein . Until he was seriously wounded in 1942, he took part in the Second World War in France and Russia . In 1944 he became district administrator in the Frankenstein district , from where he was expelled in 1945 and taken prisoner. Dismissed in 1948, he became a research assistant and later director of the Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate state office of the German municipal publisher. During this time he joined the SPD . In 1951 he was accepted into the civil service, became a consultant in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior , in 1952 a senior councilor in Wiesbaden and in 1954 a government director . In 1957 he became district administrator in the Rotenburg district , then after the regional reform from 1971 to 1976 in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district .

Publications

• The Rotenburg district in northern Hesse. Stuttgart 1971.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 31–32.