Otto von Keudell (civil servant)

Otto Victor von Keudell (born February 28, 1887 in Rome , † May 12, 1972 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German administrative lawyer. He was a brother of Walter von Keudell , who was Minister of the Interior from 1927 to 1928.

Life

Otto von Keudell was a son of Robert von Keudell and Alexandra geb. from Grünhof. After passing the first state law examination and subsequent legal clerkship , von Keudell worked, among other things, in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and the Reich Ministry of the Interior , most recently as Ministerialrat . After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he joined in March 1933, the NSDAP ( member number 1772957) and became in November of the same year Presidential Council of the Joseph Goebbels below Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . In 1934, after the death of Hindenburg, on behalf of Goebbels , Keudell endeavored to a. To win artists like Emil Nolde , Ernst Barlach , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff to put their signature under the call of the cultural workers and thus publicly advertise the presidency of Hitler in the German Reich. In 1935, as a ministerial advisor, he became head of the music and visual arts department in the Reich Propaganda Ministry .

From 1939 to 1945 he was the successor to Karl Budding as the district president in the West Prussian administrative district Marienwerder (Danzig-West Prussia) . Keudell was an SS member and was promoted to SS- Brigadführer (SS-Nr. 241,805) in June 1944 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of Noble Houses B 24, Volume 129 of the complete series, pp. 452–467, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2002, p. 149.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 303.
3. ↑ Christian Saehrendt: The "bridge" between statecraft and ostracism. Expressionist art as a political issue in the Weimar Republic, the “Third Reich” and the Cold War. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 9783515086141 , p. 55.