Reinhart Berger

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Reinhart Berger (born November 13, 1910 in Rheinsberg ; † December 26, 1994 ) was a German administrative lawyer. From 1952 to 1975 he was senior district director of the Uelzen district .

Life

He was born in Rheinsberg in 1910 . In 1919 his parents moved with him to Szczecin , where his father Alfred Berger initially worked as director of the Szczecin port, and later as in-house counsel for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Reinhart Berger attended the König-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Stettin, where he graduated from high school in 1929. He then studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , the Universität Vienna and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . During his studies in 1929 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . This was followed by positions as a trainee lawyer in Stettin, Bahn and Nipperwiese .

In 1936, he was with a thesis on legal history of Swedish rule in Western Pomerania for Dr. jur. PhD. Due to his partly Jewish descent, he was not able to realize the plan of a university career as a legal historian . He worked as a lawyer in Berlin and became a soldier in 1940 during World War II . In 1946 he was released from captivity.

He settled in Uelzen in 1946 , where he worked in the district administration. In 1952 he became the full-time senior district director of the Uelzen district and was re-elected several times until his retirement in 1975.

From 1976 to 1986 he was chairman of the Society for Pomeranian History, Archeology and Art . In 1986 he became its honorary member.

Awards

Fonts

  • Legal history of the Swedish rule in Western Pomerania. Triltsch, Würzburg 1936. (Dissertation)
  • The district of Uelzen. History, landscape, economy. 1st edition: Stalling, Oldenburg 1965. 2nd edition. Stalling, Oldenburg 1973. (overall editing)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 207, November 3, 1973.