Otto von Schlieben

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Hans August Otto von Schlieben (born January 14, 1875 in Groß-Rinnersdorf , Lüben district , Silesia , † July 22, 1932 in Halle ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( DkP , DNVP ).

Career

Gravestone Otto von Schlieben

After graduating from high school, Schlieben began studying law, which he completed in 1896 with the first state examination in law. He then joined the Prussian judicial service as a court trainee. He became a government trainee in 1900, passed the second state examination in law in 1904 and then worked as a government assessor at the district office or the police department in Hanau . In 1906 he moved to Düsseldorf as a municipal and police department . From 1910 to 1915, von Schlieben served as district administrator for the Heilsberg district (East Prussia). From 1915 he was an unskilled worker in the Prussian State Ministry and from 1916 to 1918 as a secret government councilor and lecturer in the Reich Chancellery .

Schlieben was a member of the German Conservative Party until 1918. In 1918 he was appointed ministerial advisor to the Reich Treasury . After the November Revolution, Schlieben joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). From 1919 he worked in the newly created Reich Ministry of Finance . In 1920 he took over the management of the local budget department as ministerial director (budget director). On 19 January 1925 he was appointed Hans Luther to Reich Minister of Finance . During his ten-month term in office, he tried to implement an austerity policy, which, however, did not find a majority in the Reichstag .

After the dissolution of Luther's cabinet , he devoted himself to his supervisory board activities; Until 1926 he was a member of the supervisory board of Junkers-Flugzeugwerke AG and at times a member of the supervisory board of the electrical works . From 1926 to 1929 he acted as president of the state tax office in Magdeburg . In 1930 he became chairman of the board of directors of the Association of the German Sugar Industry.

Otto von Schlieben died in Halle in 1932 at the age of 57. He was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin. The grave is preserved.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 678.
personal data
SURNAME Close, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlieben, Hans August Otto von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (DkP, DNVP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Rinnersdorf , Lüben district , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1932
Place of death Hall