Udo Krauthausen

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Friedrich August Carl Udo Krauthausen (born November 16, 1894 in Papenburg , † February 10, 1969 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official .

Life

Udo Krauthausen was born as the son of the District Court Councilor Paul Krauthausen (1856–1939) and his wife Emmely born. Hiller (1868–1941) was born. After graduating from high school in Cologne in 1912, he studied law at the universities in Lausanne , Munich , Bonn and Berlin . During his studies, which he had to interrupt between 1914 and 1918 due to his participation in the First World War , he joined the Catholic student fraternity Aenania Munich .

Krauthausen passed the first state examination in law in June 1919 and then completed his legal preparatory service, first as a court trainee in Cologne, then from 1920 as a government trainee. In 1921 he was at Bonn University for doctor of law doctorate . Following the second state examination in law, which he passed in March 1922, he worked as a government assessor for the governments in Trier and Cologne , most recently in the occupation and transport department. From there in 1923 he moved to the Oberpräsidium in Koblenz , where he acted as the personal advisor to the Oberpräsident of the Rhine Province , Johannes Fuchs . During the occupation of the Rhineland he was expelled by the French from the Rhineland. He then performed his service from the alternative seat of the district government in Wetzlar .

From February 1924, Krauthausen had been a member of the government council of the Cologne district government's school department. After being promoted to the Upper Government Council in December 1926, he worked for the Prussian Building and Finance Directorate in Berlin . In April 1928 he moved to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as Ministerialrat , where he headed the municipal department from 1931 and the personnel department from 1932 to 1933. In addition, in 1933 he was Deputy Plenipotentiary to the Reichsrat for Prussia .

As part of the takeover by the Nazis Krauthausen was recalled in January 1933 by his department head posts and demoted. Although instead appointed deputy head of the municipal department, he was excluded from the preparation of the German municipal code. After another downgrade to speaker in 1936, he was given leave of absence in 1937 and thus left the Ministry of the Interior.

Krauthausen joined the NSDAP in May 1937 and was transferred to the Prussian Higher Administrative Court . From December 1941 he was a member of the Water and Soil Senate at the Reich Administrative Court as a senior administrative judge . After the outbreak of the Second World War he was given leave of absence in 1939 and served as a reserve officer in the Air Intelligence Force , most recently as Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of the 51st Air Intelligence Regiment. He was captured by the United States in 1945 and then taken into British captivity.

After his release from captivity, Krauthausen worked in the private sector from February 1946 and was employed by an auditor in Dortmund . From 1948 he worked for the German Association of Cities in Cologne and Bad Godesberg .

At the instigation of Adolf Süsterhenn and at the instigation of Peter Altmeier , he was able to return to the administrative service in 1950 and became an official in the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate . He was promoted to Ministerial Director in 1951 and Ministerial Director in 1952. From May 18, 1951 until his retirement on February 28, 1961, he was Deputy Minister of the Interior Alois Zimmer and Otto van Volxem , and from 1956 in the role of State Secretary .

Grave site of the Krauthausen family

In addition to his work as State Secretary, he was, among other things, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Landesbank and Girozentrale Rheinland-Pfalz in Mainz and President of the Institut international des sciences administratives in Brussels . After his retirement he worked as a lecturer for administrative practice at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Udo Krauthausen had been married to Alice Cremer (1907-1993), a daughter of the entrepreneur and politician Arnold Cremer , since April 1932 , and had two children. He died in 1969 at the age of 74 and was buried in the family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (corridor 6 (Q)).

literature

  • Alfons Labisch , Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Lines of development and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany. (= Series of publications by the Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf. 13.2). Düsseldorf 1985, pp. 442-443 ( PDF; 37.5 MB ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former ministers and state secretaries. isim.rlp.de, accessed on January 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who. 15th edition. Arani, Berlin 1967, p. 1039.
personal data
SURNAME Krauthausen, Udo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauthausen, Friedrich August Carl Udo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Papenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1969
Place of death Cologne