Richard Zetzsche
Richard Zetzsche (born March 30, 1877 in Plauen , † January 17, 1948 in Celle ) was a German administrative lawyer and manager .
Life
Zetzsche was a son of the bank director Heinrich Ludwig Zetzsche . He attended the grammar school in Plauen and studied law and economics at the universities of Jena , Freiburg and Leipzig . In 1900 he entered the Saxon judicial career and, after passing the 2nd state examination, was accepted into the city administration of Plauen. He later switched to a career in finance and was employed by the General Customs Directorate and the Saxon Ministry of Finance in Dresden . From 1915 to 1918 he headed the customs administration at the General Government of Warsaw and was appointed to the Reich Treasury in 1918 . After its conversion into the Reich Ministry of Finance, he was promoted to Ministerial Councilor and Lecturing Council in 1919. In 1924 he resigned from the Reichsdienst and became a member of the board of the Petroleum-Reichsverband . Zetzsche wrote papers on customs and tax law and on the mineral oil industry. Zetzsche was also a member of the International Chamber of Commerce.
After the outbreak of the Second World War , Zetzsche held the rank of secret government councilor from December 1939 to June 1940 as the chief department head of the main office for economics in the German-occupied General Government (GG). Zetsche then worked at the Institute for German Ostarbeit in Krakow .
literature
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 2087.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945. (= Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History , Volume 20.) Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Petroleum and coal , 1st year, industrial publishing house by Hernhaussen KG. 1948, p. 133.
- ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 692f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zetzsche, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1948 |
| Place of death | Celle |