Wilhelm Peter Hansen

Wilhelm Peter Hansen (born April 3, 1870 in Windbergen , † October 27, 1946 in Jena ) was a German politician and diplomat .

Life

Born the son of a Flensburg city ​​councilor, Hansen studied law in Munich , Berlin and Kiel after attending the Royal High School in Flensburg . After becoming a member of the Flensburg Primary School as a student , he became a member of the Krusenrotter fraternity in Kiel during his studies in 1890 . From 1904 he was secretary assistant in the secret calculation of the colonial department of the Foreign Office . In 1907 he became a Privy Councilor, First Consultant and Deputy to the Governor of Cameroon , first to Theodor Seitz , then to Otto Gleim . In 1910 he was one of the nine official members of the Board of Governors of Cameroon . After a dispute with the governor Karl Ebermaier , who ruled from 1912 , he was recalled to Berlin and from 1913 worked in the Reich Colonial Office as a secret expediting secretary and calculator in the Secret Secretariat and the Secret Calculators. In 1917 he became a secret accountant in the German Reich's audit office . In 1921 he became Chilean consul in Lübeck and later worked as a district judge in Jena- Löbstedt and as a writer. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP and from 1939 to 1945 was the staff director at the Army Catering Office.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 235-236.