Richard Giese (Chief Financial Officer)

Richard Ferdinand Giese (born August 11, 1876 ​​in Prenzlau , † January 15, 1978 in Kiel ) was a German ministerial official in the financial administration.

Life

Giese was born as the son of the medical councilor Richard Giese and his wife Marie Giese, née Gralow, on August 11, 1876 in his parents' Prenzlau apartment at Klosterstrasse 77. The parents were of Protestant denomination. He studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . On October 23, 1897 he became a fox in the Corps Bremensia . Received on July 10, 1898 and inactivated on March 10, 1899 , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . There he passed the trainee examination in 1901 and the assessor examination at the Chamber Court on May 30, 1907 .

At first Giese worked at the courts in Prenzlau and Wriezen , then on a trial basis at the Oberzolldirektion in Altona (1908). Then he was chief customs controller in Nordhorn (1909). On April 6, 1909 to the Kgl. Appointed government assessor, he was initially an unskilled worker at the Berlin Customs Directorate, then Chief Customs Inspector at the Main Customs Office in Wesel (1911) and a regular member of the Altona Directorate General (1913). There he was appointed government councilor in 1915 . He had been a soldier in the German Army since 1914 and took part in the First World War. In 1916 he was taken prisoner of war for four years off Verdun . In 1920 he was taken over as senior government councilor in the newly established Reich finance administration. For a short time at the Mecklenburg State Finance Office in Schwerin, he was appointed Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Finance in 1921 . Here he worked under 14 ministers as head of personnel for the higher service of the entire Reich finance administration. From June 1, 1923, he was also a full member of the Reich Disciplinary Court in Leipzig , which was increasingly concerned with political decisions. On October 1, 1933, Giese became President of the State Tax Office of Hesse in Darmstadt. Three years later he became Chief Finance President Nordmark in Kiel. This authority emerged from the state tax offices of Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Until his retirement in May 1943, Giese headed Department I Human Resources and Administration and at the same time the Finance and Customs School in Mölln and the Customs School in Flensburg .

After moving into an official residence in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Giese and his family were evacuated to Zinnowitz in the spring of 1944 . When the Red Army occupied Usedom , he temporarily earned his living as a harvest and forest worker and from October 1946 as an insurance agent for the Mecklenburg property and personal insurance company for Zinnowitz and the surrounding area. When he learned that all officials from the district president upwards were to be arrested as first class war criminals, at the end of October 1947 he went over the border of the Soviet occupation zone to his son in Kiel. After he had received the relocation permit for his family in August 1948, he was looked after by his daughter. At the big reception in honor of his 100th birthday, Hans-Hellmuth Qualen , Gerd Lausen and Kiel's Mayor Eckhard Sauerbaum congratulated .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth certificate at the Prenzlau registry office No. 327/1876, digitized from ancestry.de
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39/995.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Obituary, Corpszeitung der Bremensia, No. 57/1978
4. ↑ Susanne Meinl , Jutta Zwilling: Richard Giese , in: Legalized Robbery: The Plundering of Jews in National Socialism by the Reich Finance Administration in Hesse (2004)
5. ↑ State Finance Office / Chief Finance President / Chief Finance Directorate (State Archives Schleswig-Holstein)