Siegfried von Campe

Friedrich Wilhelm Burchard Siegfried von Campe (* December 8, 1885 in Münster , † May 3, 1972 in Hanover ) was district administrator in various districts during the Weimar Republic and during the Nazi era .

Life

origin

Siegfried von Campe was born as the son of General of the Artillery Friedrich von Campe (1858–1938) and his wife Anna, née von Wedelstädt. His brother Alfred von Campe (1889–1945) also became a lawyer and district administrator.

Education and career

After graduating from high school in Lausanne in 1905 , von Campe studied law in Marburg , Königsberg and Munich . On June 5, 1908, he passed the first state examination with the grade "sufficient". From 1908 to 1910 he was a trainee lawyer in Lübbecke , Bünde and Schleswig . In 1914 he became a government assessor in the Bersenbrück district office.

From 1914 to 1917 he did military service in the field artillery during World War I and was seriously wounded. His last rank was that of a reserve captain. After the war he became head of administration for the Syke (Hann) district in 1918 and in Düsseldorf from 1919 to 1920.

Between 1921 and 1929 Siegfried von Campe was district administrator in Usingen . While his predecessors were appointed, he was the first to be elected in a democratic election by the district council. The district council approved its election on December 17, 1921 with the votes of the 14 bourgeois district council members. Four socialist MPs voted against him. In Usingen he earned services for the water and electricity supply of the district. In 1929 he became district administrator in the district of Uelzen and, after his departure there, from 1937 to 1938, for a short time district administrator in Stolp . From 1938 to 1945 he was district administrator in Nienburg .

Before 1933 Campe had been a member of the DVP and belonged to the left wing there. On May 1, 1933 , he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,623,915).

From 1946 he was a member of the Board of Directors in Estorf (Weser) . He became known nationwide as the President of the War Graves Commission in Lower Saxony . From 1949 he lived in Hanover.

family

Siegfried von Campe was a Protestant. He married Hanna von Blanckenburg, born Samter , on May 12, 1925 in Zimmerhausen . His brother Alfred was district administrator for the Halle district from 1922 to 1933.

Awards

• Schaumburg-Lippisches Merit Cross (1914)
• EK II (1914)
• EK I (1917)
• Wound Badge (1918)

literature

• Otto Renkhoff: Nassauische Biographie , 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , page 100
• Gregor Maier: Between administration and politics . In: Yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1110-8 , p. 81.
• Bärbel Holtz (edit / ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925–1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)
• Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck from 1867 to 1945 (= sources and research on Hessian history. 70). Historical commission for Hessen et al., Marbuerg (Lahn) et al. 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , pp. 106, 107.

Web links

• Campe, Siegfried Friedrich Wilhelm Burchard Alfred von. Hessian biography. (As of February 2, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).