Richard Tantzen

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Richard Hinrich Tantzen (born December 12, 1888 in Hoffe ; † January 30, 1966 in Oldenburg ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

Richard Tantzen was born on December 12th 1888 in Hoffe bei Abbehausen . He came from a long-established and respected Butjadinger farming family. His father, Gustav Diedrich Tantzen (1865–1937), was the community leader in his hometown for over three decades. After graduating from the Städtische Oberrealschule Oldenburg , he studied law at the universities of Marburg , Lausanne , Munich and Berlin from 1907 . In 1910 he entered the Oldenburg civil service. As a soldier he took part in World War I and was seriously wounded. From 1923 he was a magistrate in Jever . In the summer of 1927 he moved to the Oldenburg State Ministry as a civil servant, where he took over the management of the Agricultural Department and the State Settlement Office as Ministerialrat.

The focus of his work was settlement policy until 1949, in which, following the provisions of the Reich Settlement Act, he ensured a comprehensive internal colonization of undeveloped areas, primarily the southern Oldenburg moors. Under his direction, the authority established a large number of settlements and villages. In 1934 Tantzen was also chairman of the monument council and state commissioner for nature conservation and advocated nature conservation and monument protection on an equal footing with the designation of new settlement areas. In 1934/35 he also worked as a judge at the Oldenburg Higher Administrative Court .

After the Second World War , Tantzen was removed from office and, like other former senior officials, was interned in the Esterwegen camp for six months from May 1945 . Only later was he able to resume his administrative work. In 1953 he retired. From 1951 to 1956 he was chairman of the Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte, Natur- und Heimatkunde and from 1961 until his death chairman of the Oldenburg Foundation he founded .

Tantzen was also a member of the board of various other committees for many years, such as the Mellumrat , the Marschenrat , the Lower Saxony Homeland Association , the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen and the Family Studies Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . As early as 1927 he was one of the founders of the Oldenburg Society for Family Studies , which he chaired from 1932 to 1965.

Richard Tantzen died on January 30, 1966 in Oldenburg.

politics

From May 1, 1933 on, Tantzen was a member of the NSDAP , the NSV , from 1934 of the NS-Rechtswahrerbund and from 1937 of the DRK . After the war, he joined the FDP in 1945 and on September 14, 1955, he was appointed to the state government led by Prime Minister Heinrich Hellwege as Lower Saxony's minister of culture . In protest against a speech by Hans-Christoph Seebohm , he resigned on February 28, 1956.

Local history

Since the early 1920s, Tantzen has written numerous papers and essays on subjects related to his homeland. He focused on family studies, local history and settlement affairs. He also devoted himself to stork research and the sea bird sanctuaries, for which he also published extensively.

Awards

For his services he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1954 , the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1960 and the Lower Saxony Order of Merit in 1962 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony (PDF; 92 kB), Landtag printed matter 16/4667, p. 4.
  2. ↑ When Seebohm talks . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1956, pp. 13 ( online - March 21, 1956 ).
personal data
SURNAME Aunt, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tantzen, Richard Hinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hope so
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1966
Place of death Oldenburg