Rolf Baath

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Rolf Baath (born March 22, 1909 , † 1983 ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Career

He was the son of the lawyer Peter-August Baath and attended pre-school and humanistic high school in Berlin-Zehlendorf, which he left with the Abitur. After studying political and legal sciences in Freiburg and Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1931 at the law and political science faculty of the University of Freiburg . While still training as a court trainee in Finsterwalde, Potsdam and Berlin, he joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933. He also became a member of the SA, where he made it to the position of squad leader and sports officer.

From 1934 he worked at the Reichsnährstand , where he was appointed senior agricultural councilor in 1940. He then did military service until 1941, most recently as a company commander, before he was transferred to the North Economic Inspectorate in Riga from July 1941 as a senior war administrator. From 1941 to 1944 he was also employed as a military administrative officer in the "Registration" department of the Eastern Economic Staff . At the end of the war he served again as a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht.

After the end of the Second World War, he was initially employed in a home for the disabled. In 1947 he came to the main office for wine and alcoholic beverages in Hamburg, where he also underwent a denazification process. After being classified as "exonerated," he moved to the United Economic Area Administration for Food, Agriculture and Forestry that same year .

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he worked in the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests . From 1950 to 1958 he was head of sub-department III B (food industry or from 1952: supply and storage of food) and from 1958 head of department III (food industry or from 1968: market policy). In 1972 he retired with the rank of Ministerial Director.

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SURNAME Baath, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1909
DATE OF DEATH 1983