Richard Wienstein
Adalbert Richard Wienstein (born June 3, 1892 in Guben , † December 18, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German civil servant. As a ministerial director he was permanent deputy to the state secretary and head of the Reich Chancellery Hans Heinrich Lammers .
Life and activity
Wienstein was the son of a chamber judge. He studied law and political science at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. As a lieutenant he took part in the First World War and was involved in the suppression of the Spartacus uprising . Then he hit the civil service career.
From 1919 to 1921 Wienstein was a court trainee. In 1922 he worked as a government assessor and assistant in the Reich Ministry of Finance - according to Witt in the Reich Ministry of the Interior - before moving to the Reich Chancellery on April 18, 1923. There he was promoted to the Upper Government Council in 1926. In 1929 he was promoted to ministerial councilor and tasked with dealing with constitutional and administrative law issues at government headquarters.
Wienstein retained his position in the Reich Chancellery even after the National Socialists came to power : from May 1933 he was the permanent deputy of the Lammer who was appointed State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery on January 30, 1933. In 1934 he was promoted to ministerial director and as such appointed head of Department B of the Reich Chancellery.
Wienstein died in 1937 at the age of 45 as a result of a gallstone operation.
Personal
In his spare time, Wienstein was an avid tennis player. Because he was a member of the Blauweiss tennis club, he was friends with Manfred von Ardenne , among others , who he met in his memoirs I am them the chapter Insights into Hitler's actions. Dedicated to meeting Richard Wienstein .
literature
- Carsten Nicolaisen : The year 1933 , p. 12
- Dieter Rebentisch , Karl Teppe: Administration versus leadership in Hitler's state , 1986, p. 77.
- Peter-Christian Witt : “Conservatism as 'non-partisan'. The officials of the Reich Chancellery between the Empire and the Weimar Republic 1900-1933 ”, in: Dirk Stegmann (Ed.): German Conservatism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Fritz Fischer on his 75th birthday and on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate , Berlin 1983, p. 277.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wienstein, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wienstein, Adalbert Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guben |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1937 |
| Place of death | Berlin |