Peter Cremerius

Peter Cremerius (born September 16, 1893 at the Sommersberger Hof ; † December 7, 1959 ) was a German administrative lawyer , from 1931 to 1945 district administrator of the Borken district and most recently with the rank of Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

Life

Origin and education

Peter Cremerius was born as the son of a landowner on the Sommersberger Hof in what is now the municipality of Wachtberg . The farm has been owned by the family since 1868. After attending elementary school and a grammar school ( matriculation examination 1913), he began studying law and political science at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Bonn for six semesters . His studies were interrupted by military service in the First World War, during which he was declared unfit for field service after a serious wound in 1917 and was transferred to naval aviation as a reserve lieutenant. It was not until February 1919 that Cremerius was released from military service and was able to continue his studies in Bonn.

With the passing of the first legal examination and his appointment as court trainee on June 20, 1920 before the Higher Regional Court of Cologne , he continued his legal training at the Rheinbach District Court , not far from his place of birth. At this stage he was in December 1920 in Heidelberg with the theme "claims for damages in the airship " to Dr. jur. PhD .

With his change to the Prussian administrative service and simultaneous appointment as a government trainee, Peter Cremerius was transferred to the Cologne government in April 1921 for further employment. After passing the Grand State Examination , he was appointed government assessor on June 23, 1923 .

Career

Peter Cremerius occupied his first management position after his employer had commissioned him from November 18, 1923 to January 17, 1924 to manage the district office of the Düren district on an assignment basis. Subsequently, in March 1924, he was transferred to the Aachen government , to which the Düren district was subordinate, for further employment . After Paul Schaaff reoccupied the district office in Düren , Cremerius was referred to there in June 1924, initially in his position as a government assessor. However, he returned to the government in Aachen in November 1925, from where he was transferred to the Hildesheim government in January 1928 . Hildesheim Cremerius received the appointment as well as on 4 April 1928 Governing Council . In January 1930 he was temporarily transferred to the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture for temporary employment , and in August 1931 he was also appointed personal advisor to State Secretary Hermann Heukamp .

Upon reaching the age limit, Stephan Graf von Spee , as District Administrator of the Borken district, was retired on October 21, 1931 and, at the same time, Peter Cremerius was temporarily commissioned with the administration of the District Office in Borken on October 1, 1931. In the following February he was definitively appointed district administrator and remained in this position until the end of the Second World War in 1945. From June to October 1940 himself in the military service, from 12 to 15 January 1942 he represented Felix Sümmermann , the district administrator of the Ahaus district during his absence due to the war. He saw his main tasks in agricultural education as well as in the cultural area.

After the law to restore the civil service was enacted on April 7, 1933, Cremerius joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1934, with effect from May 1, 1933 .

After his removal from office by the British military authorities , Cremerius spent the period from March 29 to August 4, 1945 in the Recklinghausen-Hillerheide internment camp . From January 24, 1947, he found a new job as an employee in the newly formed Ministry of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf . In the same year, on August 15, Cremerius received an appointment as Chancellor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , where he tried to rebuild facilities.

Appointed Senior Government on 22 February 1949 finally followed on August 4, 1952 he was transferred as Speaker in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, followed in April 1953 was promoted to Councilor. On July 1, 1954, Peter Cremerius was retired .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 133.
2. ↑ see also: 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. 322, note 212 .
3. ↑ Sommersberger Hof (private website, accessed on January 21, 2016)