Viktor von Hagenow

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Heinrich Paul Anton Viktor von Hagenow (born June 18, 1886 in Schwerin , Mecklenburg , † September 10, 1965 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German administrative lawyer. He was a member of the German People's Party (DVP).

Life and activity

Hagenow was the son of the later general of the cavalry Maximilian von Hagenow . After attending school, he studied law . In 1911 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock with a thesis supervised by Friedrich Wachenfeld on the legal evaluation of forgery of documents for a Dr. jur.

From 1915 to January 1919, Hagenow was a member of the government at the directorates of the Guard Corps and the 1st Army Corps. In 1919 he was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Finance , where he stayed for eight years. During this time he was promoted to senior government councilor (1922) and ministerial councilor (1924).

On June 15, 1927, Hagenow was transferred to the Reich Chancellery by the then Reich Chancellor Wilhelm Marx while at the same time being promoted to Ministerial Director. In the following five years he held the position of permanent deputy to the State Secretary and head of the Reich Chancellery Hermann Pünder under Reich Chancellors Marx, Müller and Brüning .

Hagenow's position during the reign of Brüning was fraught with problems. This already began during the formation of the government: As Hermann Pünder, who was also taken over by Brüning as State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery, noted in his diary, Kurt von Schleicher , the head of the Ministry of Defense, and Gottfried Treviranus , two of the most important initiators of the Brüning government, had im In the course of the personnel restructuring of the state apparatus on the occasion of the new government, "especially since my two ministerial directors von Hagenow and Zechlin wanted to go to the leather", which he, Pünder, however, "was able to fend off". Brüning himself claimed in his memoirs that in January 1932 he had learned that at the moment when he, Brüning, had won the Economic Party for the support of his government in parliament and thus a majority, Hagenow had the deputies in question in the corridor of the Reich Chancellery intercepted and edited them to vote against Brüning. This fits in with the assertion of Erwin Planck , who was then employed as a consultant in the Reich Chancellery , that Brüning had asked him in February 1932 to take care of "a change" in the Reich Chancellery and to move up to a higher position, whereby he had specifically encouraged him to To replace Hagenow.

In the run-up to the formation of Franz von Papen's government in the summer of 1932, Hagenow is said to have raised hopes for the post of State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery, which Planck finally received. The press reports about the new government also noted that Hagenow had been "passed over" for this post. Instead, Hagenow was put into temporary retirement a few weeks after the Papen government took over. In August he was instead employed as a provisional district administrator in Löwenberg , Silesia . He remained in this position until he was ousted by the National Socialists in 1933.

In the 1930s Hagenow was active in the Confessing Church . On behalf of the Berlin (?) Consistory, he was appointed as financial representative in the community of Heinrich Grüber . He supported Grüber's wife after his arrest and made sure that no vacant representative took over his work, since a representative would have been appointed by the consistory if he would in all probability not have been a pastor of the Confessing Church.

In the 1950s, Hagenow can be traced back to the district councilor in Berlin-Zehlendorf, where he also spent the last years of his life.

Viktor von Hagenow died in 1965 at the age of 79 and was buried in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

  • The forgery of documents of today's law in consideration of the provisions of the preliminary draft , 1911. (Dissertation)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Berlin-Zehlendorf registry office No. 2345/1965.
  2. ↑ Astrid von Pufendorf: Die Plancks: A family between patriotism and resistance , p. 234.
  3. ^ Heinrich Brüning: Memoirs , 1970, p. 402.
  4. ^ Astrid von Pufendorf: The Plancks. A Family Between Patriotism and Resistance , 2006, p. 256.
  5. ^ Heinrich Grüber: Memories from Seven Decades , 1968, p. 94.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Wetzel: Zehlendorf , 1988, p. 164.
  7. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 633.
personal data
SURNAME Hagenow, Viktor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagenow, Heinrich Paul Anton Viktor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1965
Place of death Berlin-Zehlendorf