Traugott Bredow (lawyer, 1859)

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Traugott Bredow , full name Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Traugott Bredow, (born June 1, 1859 in Köslin , † November 8, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German ministerial official.

Life

Bredow was born on June 1, 1859 as the son of the district architect Traugott Emil Anton Bredow (1823-1884) and his wife Mathilde, née Jaenicke, in Köslin. Bredow studied law at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . Since November 3, 1878 Fuchs in the Corps Marcomannia Breslau , he was reciprocated on July 17, 1879 . After the first exam, he joined the internal administration of Prussia in 1883. With the government in Szczecin , he excelled in restructuring a mortgage bank . Appointed to the Ministry of Public Works in 1898 , he became a walker after a few months. Appointed government councilor and lecturer council . He sat, among other things, in the commission for the supervision of the Royal Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Shipbuilding . With his interest in technology he came into contact with the emerging aviation . Soon he was working on related issues in the ministry. After the First World War he was transferred to the new Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare . In 1921 he switched to the Reich Service. As Ministerialdirektor he took over the management of the Reich Air Office in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . Here he played a key role in the development of civil aviation . The restrictions imposed by the Peace Treaty of Versailles and the supervision by the victorious powers made the Reichswehr's secret plans to lay the foundations for a new German aviation weapon difficult . When the independence of his department of austerity policy fell victim to the currency reform , Bredow took early retirement in 1924. His sons also became Marcomans. The younger, Paul Bredow (* 1891), was wounded in the battle of Gorlice-Tarnów and died on May 12, 1915 in the reserve hospital in Brzeg . The elder, Traugott Bredow (lawyer, 1889) , became the district president in Hildesheim.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 82/62
  2. ^ Bredow, Traugott (DBE 2005)