Werner Haustein

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Werner Haustein (born June 1, 1894 ; died May 6, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and railway official.

Life

After completing his doctorate in law and participating in the First World War , Haustein joined the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920 . With the transition to the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft in 1924 he was given the title of Reichsbahnrat. In 1933 he became head of personnel at the Reich Railway Directorate in Essen, which is important due to its location in the Ruhr area . On the occasion of the centenary of the German railways in 1935, he, meanwhile promoted to the Reichsbahnoberrat, wrote the work Hundred Years of German Railroaders together with the Reichsbahninspektor Berthold Stumpf . The history of a profession . In this work he paid tribute to, among other things, the implementation of the Professional Civil Service Act at the Reichsbahn, which had already led to the extensive dismissal of Jewish Reichsbahn officials before the Nuremberg Laws .

From October 1936, Haustein was a consultant for civil service law in the personnel department of the main administration of the Reichsbahn in Berlin. In this function he was responsible for the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws and other anti-Semitic measures. Reichsbahn officials were repeatedly urged not to go shopping in Jewish shops or to engage in any other contact with Jews. With the transfer of the Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft to direct Reich administration as a result of the law to reorganize the relationships between the Reichsbank and the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1937, Haustein's official title also changed, without his field of activity changing significantly. As ministerial director , Haustein continued to be responsible for questions of civil service law in the Reich Ministry of Transport (RVM). In the same year, Haustein joined the NSDAP on May 1st and received membership number 5,605,281. He was also an SA member with the rank of Hauptsturmführer . After the beginning of the Second World War , he was briefly head of the personnel department in the east branch of the RVM in Warsaw in 1941, but then took over as president of the Reichsbahn Central Office for Personnel and Social Affairs on October 1, 1941. In 1944 he moved back to the RVM as head of the personnel department.

After the end of the war, Haustein first went to the Reichsbahn general directorate in the British zone , where he worked as a consultant in 1946. In 1947 he took over the management of the Reichsbahn-Sozialamt, which became the Bundesbahn-Sozialamt when the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) was founded in 1949. He was instrumental in the formulation of the Federal Railroad Act that came into force at the end of 1951 . In 1952, Haustein moved to the main administration of the Federal Railroad in Frankfurt am Main as head of the legal department . In 1956 he took over the main examinations office of the DB as president, in the same year he became honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg . He represented DB on many occasions in matters of international railway law and published various publications on this. Haustein died on May 6, 1959 in Frankfurt.

Honors

The Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg made him an honorary senator in October 1952 .

Street name

In Frankfurt-Nied, Werner-Haustein-Strasse , near the former Federal Railway repair shop, was named after him. The naming was checked by the Nied local advisory board after its functions and activities during the Nazi era, including the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws at the Reichsbahn, were discussed. On June 5, 2018, the local advisory board decided that the street name should be canceled and the street should be assigned to Nieder Kirchweg (Official Gazette of July 3, 2018).

Publications (selection)

  • A hundred years of German railway workers. The history of a profession (together with Berthold Stumpf). Konkordia-Verlag, Leipzig 1935.
  • The development of the Greater German Reichsbahn within the framework of the Greater German Reich. A compilation of the most important documents. In: The Reichsbahn. 18 (1942), pp. 76-88 and 114-125.
  • Federal Railways Act of December 13, 1951 (Federal Law Gazette 1951 I p. 955) with brief explanations, Federal Railroad Assets Act, General Railway Act and an extract from the Basic Law. Verlag Röhrig, Cologne 1952.
  • The international legal position of the railways in war and post-war times. Verlag Röhrig, Cologne 1952.
  • The international public railway law. Transport Science Teaching Aid Society , Frankfurt am Main 1953.
  • Contributions to railway law. Verlag Röhrig, Darmstadt 1955.
  • Legal basis of German and international traffic (together with Werner Weber). Verlag Röhrig, Darmstadt 1956.
  • The railways in German public law (as publisher, with the participation of federal railway lawyers). Transport Science Teaching Aid Society, Frankfurt am Main 1960.

literature

  • Alfred Gottwaldt : The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933–1939. Anti-Semitism on the railways in the pre-war period. Marix-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-254-1 (short biography on p. 436).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Gottwaldt: The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933–1939. Anti-Semitism on the railways in the pre-war period. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, p. 140
  2. ^ Alfred Gottwaldt: The Reichsbahn and the Jews 1933–1939. Anti-Semitism on the railways in the pre-war period. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, p. 222
  3. ^ Uniarchiv Freiburg: Honorary Senators of the Albert Ludwig University , accessed on June 27, 2015
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Das kleine Straßenlexikon , accessed on June 27, 2015
  5. ↑ George Grodensky: Nazi past in Frankfurt. Street named after Nazi , Frankfurter Rundschau, September 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Haustein, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and railway official
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1894
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1959
Place of death Frankfurt am Main