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Walther Ernst Gase (born June 20, 1901 in Breslau ; † February 8, 1991 ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer .

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Kassel studied gases jurisprudence in Breslau , Freiburg , Göttingen and Marburg and graduated with a doctorate to Dr. jur. from. He then embarked on a career as a civil servant in the administration. He worked in the Reich Ministry of Finance from 1928 and from 1932 to 1939 and in the Reich Ministry of Labor from 1929 to 1932 . He later worked as a ministerial advisor to the Reich Protector in occupied Czechoslovakia.

In 1945, Gase was appointed head of the regional tax office in Kassel . From 1947 to 1950 he was Deputy Ministerial Director and Deputy Minister of Finance Werner Hilpert in Hesse and from 1950 to 1952 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Affairs of the Marshall Plan . From 1953 to 1955 he served as the Chief Department of Finance of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration in Geneva . From 1956 to 1967 he was a board member of Deutsche Centralbodenkredit AG.

Since 1920 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Winfridia (Breslau) Münster . In 1959 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 5, 1959 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order. He was honored with the Grand Cross Knight al merito .

Honors

• 1966: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1976: Large Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Hawel: 100 years of KDSt.V. Winfridia-Breslau in Münster 1856-1956. Münster 1956, self-published.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Gase in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography in the cabinet minutes of the federal government