Theodor Kittel

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Theodor Kittel (born February 4, 1883 in Stuttgart , † January 27, 1970 ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Career

Kittel was born as the son of the university professor Rudolf Kittel and Emilie Groß. He attended grammar schools in Breslau and Leipzig and studied law, economics and geography in Tübingen and Leipzig from 1901 to 1905, where he received his doctorate in 1905. After his legal clerkship, he joined the general management of the Saxon State Railways in 1907 in the higher administrative service. From 1910 to 1912 he worked for the Saxon Ministry of Finance. From 1920 he was Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Transport , from 1924 Reich Railway Director. From October 1937 to May 1945 he was ministerial director and consultant in the legal department of the railway administration in the Reich Ministry of Transport.

After the end of the war, from November 1945 he was a consultant in the top management of the Reichsbahn in the American zone. From 1946 to 1947 he was a member of the traffic directorate and deputy director general of traffic in the US zone, as well as head of the railways department in the traffic directorate. He retired on March 1, 1948.

During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Reich Disciplinary Court and from 1932 to 1945 held a teaching position for the Prussian government at the University of Berlin.

Honors

literature

  • Walter Vogel: West Germany 1945 - 1950. 3. Individual administrative branches (= publications of the Federal Archives: Volume 3 of West Germany 1945-1950: The establishment of constitutional and administrative institutions over the countries of the three western zones of occupation) - Boldt, 1956

Individual evidence

  1. He attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig from Michaelis 1898 to Easter 1901 and left it with the school leaving certificate. Compare: König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905