Theodor Zeller (District Administrator)

Theodor Ernst Zeller (born August 27, 1902 in Stuttgart , † October 29, 1959 in Tübingen ) was a German administrative officer.

Life

Theodor Zeller, son of a bookseller, studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, among others . In 1922 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen . In 1925 he passed the 1st and in 1928 the 2nd higher judicial service examination. In 1927 he became a member of the DVP . In 1928 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . From 1929 to 1933 he was a lawyer in Stuttgart and from 1930 to 1933 managing director of the metal goods factory Waldenbronn. After becoming a member of the NSDAP in 1933 , at the beginning of 1934 he joined the Oberamt Besigheim in the service of the Württemberg internal administration. In 1935 he was promoted to government councilor. In the middle of this year he also took on an informational role at the Prussian district administration in Torgau . At the beginning of 1936 he was a full-time administrative administrator at the Riedlingen Oberamt and, after having been employed in Section IV, municipal and corporate matters, of the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior from May 1936, he was a part-time administrative administrator there again in August of the same year. In August 1939 he was Temporary Administrator and 1940 District Administrator of the district Balingen . In 1942 he was also a part-time SD branch manager in Balingen . In 1945 Zeller was interned in the Nonnenhof and Balingen camps and released from service by order of the US military government. As an intern, he became a temporary employee in March 1946 at the District Office and the Kreissparkasse Balingen. After he was discharged from the public service again in 1947, he became an editor and subsequently the publishing director of Richard Boorberg Verlag . In 1950 he took a leave of absence as a civil servant for reinstatement.

Fonts

• The Effect of a Company's Transfer on Employment Contracts (with particular reference to the draft General Employment Contracts Act) , 1928
• Special facilities to increase the administrative power of rural communities , 1936
• The new German civil service law and the Württemberg corporation officials , 1938
• Secondary employment of civil servants , 1938
• The most important provisions of the German Civil Service Act and the Reich Service Penal Code, explained in consideration of the Württemberg state and corporate civil servants , 1939

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 597 .