Theodor Beaucamp

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Theodor Beaucamp (* 9. June 1892 in Aachen ; † 16th November 1944 in Düren in an air raid) was during the Third Reich from 1933 to 1944 District Administrator of the district Düren .

Life

Beaucamp was a son of the medical council and gynecologist Eugen Beaucamp (1859-1936) and Anna geb. Bitter and grandson of the French army doctor in Laon , Eugène Beaucamp (1815–1858). From 1920 he was married to Marietta Dumont (1899–1979), who came from the Dumont publishing dynasty on her father's side and a granddaughter of the cologne producer Ferdinand Mülhens (1844–1928) on her mother's side .

In 1910 he graduated from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium and then studied in Heidelberg, Paris ( Sorbonne ), Oxford and Bonn. He then completed from 1914 to 1918 his military service as a volunteer in the First World War , from which he wounded, and with the Iron Cross First came out provided.

In 1919 Beaucamp was initially taken on as a government trainee in Geilenkirchen and Eupen and from 1921 as a government assessor with the government in Cologne . Just one year later, he was transferred to the police chief in Essen and assigned to the Oberhausen police station. In 1923 he was transferred to the Trier government and promoted to the government council. In the same year he was relocated with the government to Barmen after the French and Belgians had subordinated the areas on the left bank of the Rhine to the "Interallied Rhineland Commission ". In 1924 Beaucamp switched to the Aachen government , before he was appointed provisional from January 1929 and full-time from May until October 1, 1932 as district administrator of the Kirchhain district . After a short term in office in the Ministry of the Interior, Beaucamp took over the post of district administrator for the Düren district in May 1933, initially on a provisional basis and from November 1, 1933 onwards . While he was still in office, he was killed in an air raid.

Politically, Beaucamp belonged to the center and was a member of Club Aachener Casino .

literature

  • Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Druck Metz, Aachen 2nd edition 1964, p. 244
  • Jürgen Kocka and Wolfgang Neugebauer: Acta Borrussica - Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Olms-Weidmann, 2004, Vol. 12 / II. P. 520
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 346 .
  • Horst Wallraff: From the Prussian administrative officer to the manager of the district: district administrators and district administration in the districts of Düren and Jülich from 1816 to the present . Hahne & Schloemer, 2004, p. 235 ff. ISBN 3927312657

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personal data
SURNAME Beaucamp, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer, district administrator of the district of Düren
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1944
Place of death Düren