Gustav Wagemann
Gustav Wagemann | |
|---|---|
| President Celle Hereditary Farm Court | |
| In office 9 September 1933 – 11 December 1933 | |
| Prussian State Councilor | |
| In office 14 September 1933 – 11 December 1933 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 August 1885 Civil servant |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  German Empire |
| Branch/service | Imperial German Army |
| Years of service | 1914–1916 |
| Rank | Artillery battery commander |
| Unit | 46th (Lower Saxony) Field Artillery Regiment |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
Gustav Wagemann (27 August 1885 – 11 December 1933) was a German lawyer and judge who worked in the
. He died in an airplane accident in December 1933.Life
Wagemann was born in
After the end of the war and the fall of the German Empire, Wagemann continued his civil service career under the Weimar Republic and was named deputy head of the War Debt Investigation Commission in Berlin from 1 February to 12 October 1919. He then returned to the Prussian Ministry of Justice and steadily advanced through the bureaucracy, from 20 May 1921 as a Justizrat (Judicial Councilor), from 27 June 1923 as an Oberjustizrat (Senior Judicial Councilor) and from 10 November 1925 as a Ministerialrat (Ministerial Councilor). He joined the Nazi Party sometime before its assumption of the national government in January 1933. On 9 September 1933, Wagemann was named President of the Erbhofgericht (Hereditary Farm Court) in Celle. On 14 September, Prussian Minister-president Hermann Göring appointed him to the recently reconstituted Prussian State Council.[2][3]
Wagemann died in a plane crash when it attempted to land in dense fog at the airport in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel on 11 December 1933.[4] As a Prussian State Councilor, he was given a state funeral in Berlin that was attended by many Nazi dignitaries where he was eulogized by Prussian Minister of Justice Hanns Kerrl.
See also
References
- ^ Lilla 2005, p. 248.
- ^ Lilla 2005, pp. 248, 299.
- ^ Gustav Wagemann entry in the Files of the Reich Chancellery (Weimar Republic)
- ^ "Plane Hurtles to Doom in Dense Fog". No. 25305. Yeovil, England: Western Daily Press. p. 12.
Sources
- Lilla, Joachim (2005). Der Preußische Staatsrat 1921–1933: Ein biographisches Handbuch. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag. ISBN 978-3-770-05271-4.
- Gustav Wagemann entry in the Files of the Reich Chancellery (Weimar Republic)
External links
- Newspaper clippings about Gustav Wagemann in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- Gustav Wagemann entry in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
- Literature by and about Gustav Wagemann in the German National Library catalogue
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