Paul Meyers-Platen

Gustav Paul Meyers-Platen (born May 18, 1885 in Krefeld ; † February 9, 1951 there ) was a German district administrator in the Ahrweiler district .

Origin and life

Paul Meyers was a son of the quarry owner Jakob Meyers and his wife Mathilde, nee. Platen. After attending grammar schools in Kleve and Bonn and taking his school leaving examination at Easter 1904, he studied law and political science at the University of Bonn from 1904 to 1907 . He passed his legal traineeship on July 9, 1907 at the Cologne Higher Regional Court , whereupon he was sworn in on July 20 for an activity at the Ahrweiler District Court. From 1907 to 1909 he studied economics and administrative law in Erlangen , which he completed in 1909 with the major legal exam. On July 9, 1910, with his dissertation, he was awarded citizenship through employment as a Dr. jur. PhD. After leaving the judicial service, he received several informational jobs, first at the Bad Godesberg mayor's office , then at the Bonn district office and finally in Bernkastel . On September 3, 1913, Dr. Paul Meyer's acting mayor of Manderscheid , who was finally appointed on November 10, 1914.

During the First World War , in which he took part from 1914 to 1918, he was a company commander until 1915 and from 1916 to 1918 a consultant for Lithuania at the staff of the 10th Army and the Lithuanian military government, before becoming a transport policy department head at the staff of the Commander-in-Chief East in 1918 . After the end of the war he became mayor of Ahrweiler on March 4, 1922, and on May 28, 1923 he was appointed provisional district administrator for the Ahrweiler district. During his expulsion (ban) by the Interallied Rhineland Commission (IRKO) , he was temporarily transferred to the Arnsberg and Düsseldorf governments from November 1, 1923 . Upon receipt of his appointment document from October 30, 1924, he became the definitive district administrator of the Ahrweiler district, an office he held until his temporary retirement in February 1934. From March 15, 1934, he was transferred to the Dusseldorf government as district administrator in temporary retirement at the local insurance office, where he was appointed to the government council on March 1, 1937 . During the Second World War he did his military service with homeland use. On February 1, 1943, he was appointed senior government councilor, released from service in 1945 and finally retired on August 1, 1949.

politics

From 1920 to 1933 he was a member of the Center Party and from 1945 a member of the CDU .

National Socialism

Meyers was a member of the SS (No. 81948, from September 10, 1939 in the rank of SS-Obersturmführer ) as well as the NSDAP (No. 1.833.785).

family

Meyers had been married to Helene Kröger († after 1951), a daughter of the pensioner Franz Kröger, in Bad Godesberg since November 30, 1912.

Web links

• Entry on Paul Meyers-Platen in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Meyers-Platen, Gustav Paul, Dr., inventory: BArch R 1501 Reich Ministry of the Interior, In: archivportal-d.de
• Meyers-Platen, Gustav Paul, Dr., archive signature R 1501/209058, In: invenio.bundesarchiv.de
• Meyers-Platen, Gustav Paul, Dr., Federal Archives, BArch R 1501/209058, In: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f g} Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 629 f .
2. ^ Ahrweiler district, district administrators in the Ahrweiler district, In: www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
3. ↑ Numery członkó w SS od 81,000 do 81,999 (German: SS membership numbers range from 81,000 to 81,999 ), Dr Paul Meyers-Platen, In: dws-xip.pl (Polish)