Wilhelm Grau (Ministerial Director)

Wilhelm Grau (* 1901 ; † 1975 ) was a German ministerial official with the rank of ministerial director.

Career

After receiving his doctorate, Grau worked for the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior from 1934 to 1938. In 1938 he moved to the Reich Ministry of the Interior . After the end of the Second World War , in 1945 he initially worked as an appraiser at the Ministerial Collecting Center in Hessisch-Lichtenau operated by the British and American occupying forces , in which files and personnel records, mainly from the former Reich authorities, were collected. From 1945 to 1947 Grau worked for the German planning authority, which worked under British supervision, for the registration and inventory of the population in Bünde, later in Hamburg. From 1947 to 1949 worked in the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, Grau moved to the Federal Chancellery in 1949 as a ministerial advisor , where he was head of Section 2 ( budget section ) and, at the same time, Section 8 ( fundamental questions, coordination and cabinet matters from the departments of the BMV, BMP; Court of Auditors, Federal Railways, Federal Post Office ) and 9 ( Scientific research ).

In 1955 he followed Minister Franz Josef Strauss to the new Federal Ministry for Atomic Affairs . There he acted among other things as deputy minister. In December 1958 he was released from federal service because Strauss had commissioned him to expand the "Kernreaktor Bau- und Betriebsgesellschaft mbH" in Karlsruhe (the Karlsruhe reactor station) into an atomic research center, which later became the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center (KFK). From 1959 to 1966, Grau was head of the inland shipping department in the Federal Ministry of Transport . In 1966 he retired with the rank of ministerial director .

Honors

• 1968: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Wilhelm Grau in "The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government" online , Federal Archives