Rudolf Maus (civil servant)

Rudolf Maus (born June 2, 1900 in Cologne , † January 1985 ) was a German civil servant .

Live and act

Maus was the son of the businessman and newspaper publisher Heinrich Maus (1872–1955), who also served as Japanese consul in Cologne, and his wife Röschen, née Baye. Politically, his family had close ties to the Rhenish Center Party, whose leading organ, the Kölnische Volkszeitung , was published by his father.

After attending the Kreuzgasse grammar school in Cologne, where he graduated from high school on June 10, 1918 , Maus was drafted into the Prussian Army, of which he was a member from April 3 to November 16, 1918, i.e. in the late phase of the First World War . He then studied law in Bonn , Freiburg and Cologne from 1919 to 1922 . On March 28, 1922, Maus was admitted to the Prussian judicial service and on September 29, 1922 to the Prussian administrative service: a few months after passing the assessor exam on April 25, 1924, he started studying language and training at the publishing house on September 1, 1925 - and press work on leave. In January 1926, Maus became an assistant correspondent for the Kölnische Volkszeitung in Paris .

After the end of his leave of absence, Maus received a position as a civil servant in the government in Arnsberg in 1927 . On July 2 of the same year he was appointed as a consultant in the press department of the Reich government in the Foreign Office in Berlin. He began his service there on July 19, 1927. Within the press department, Maus worked in Section J (Internal and Foreign Policy) for the next six years with regard to the domestic press. On August 11, 1929, Maus was appointed to the Prussian government council there. His colleague Werner Stephan described him as a “well-behaved young man, fresh and talented”.

A few weeks after the National Socialist seizure of power, Maus returned to the Prussian administrative service as part of the general change in the press department or the incorporation of the same into the newly created Propaganda Ministry : from 1933 to 1938 he worked for the government in Stade .

1947 Mouse, the policy in the postwar period of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was a member, as a senior civil servant in the North Rhine Westphalian state chancellery in Dusseldorf appointed. From 1947 to 1948 he was personal advisor to the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Karl Arnold . In 1948 he was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior of the country, where he was appointed Ministerialrat in the personnel department. From 1952 he was promoted to Head of Department II until his retirement in 1965–1951 to Ministerialdirigenten - entrusted with the management of the Public Service Department.

obituary

The long-time North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Franz Meyers described Maus in his memoirs as a “man of great personal refinement and loyalty, a high sense of duty and extraordinary hard work” , who although “not a man of great success ”, but “a friend of solid detailed work and an extraordinarily amiable and personable one Human ” .

literature

• Gisela Fleckenstein (Ed.): The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1950 to 1954. (Second electoral period). Volume 1: Introduction, Documents 1-214. Respublica Verlag, Siegburg 1995, ISBN 3-87710-165-8 , p. 273 ( publications of the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia. Series K: Kabinettakten 2).
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .
• Ludwig Melsheimer: Who's Who in the Catholic World. A Biographical Dictionary containing about 5,500 Biographies of Prominent Personalities in the Catholic World Intercontinental Book, Montreal et al. 1967.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Stephan: Eight Decades in Germany , 1983, p. 166.
2. ^ Franz Meyers: Ge. Dr. Meyers. Sum of a Life , 1982, p. 86.