Richard Skiba

Richard Gerhard Wilhelm Skiba (born February 12, 1900 in Münster , † 1969 ) was a German State Secretary in Lower Saxony and headed the Lower Saxony State Chancellery .

Life

After attending the cathedral school and graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Münster, Skiba began studying law at the universities in Münster and Bonn , which he completed with the second state examination in law. In 1924 he entered the government service.

In 1945 Skiba took over a position in the Hanoverian high presidium, the later state chancellery. From 1946 to 1959, when he was replaced by Curt Miehe , he headed the State Chancellery.

Kurt Ihlefeld , member of the DP , wrote about Skiba in the “New State Service Hanover - Scenery”: “State Secretary Skiba ... cannot be viewed as a politically interested person. No doubt it is thanks to him that some worse things could be prevented during the years of the SPD rule, but he is primarily a civil servant, not least because of his earlier position in intermediate authorities, whose strengths are more in general administrative work than in the Completion of political tasks. Incidentally, before he took up his post in Hanover, Skiba had never worked in a ministry. "

In 1959 Skiba became managing director of Niedersachsen GmbH based in Hanover .

He was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . He was a member of the Catholic student union VKDSt since 1918 . Saxonia Munster .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ If you have a company . In: Der Spiegel , Vol. 9 (1955), No. 35 of August 24, 1955, p. 14.