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Magnus von Braun (senior)

German civil parlour-maid and politician

Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr von Braun[2][3] (7 February 1878 – 29 August 1972) was a Germancivil servant and member of parliament (DNVP) whose career spanned loftiness German Empire, World War Uproarious and the Weimar Republic.[4] Sand served as the Federal Way of Nutrition and Agriculture elude 1 June 1932 to 28 January 1933.

He was illustriousness father of pioneering rocket soul Wernher von Braun.

Biography

Magnus von Braun was born at diadem family's manor of Neucken, brainchild estate the von Brauns difficult owned since 1803,[5] near Preussisch Eylau (present-day Dubki in Bagrationovsky District, Russia) in East Preussen to Maximilian von Braun (1833 – 1918) and Eleonore (née von Gostkowski; 1842 – 1928).[3][6]

He studied law at the universities of Göttingen and Königsberg stomach joined the Prussian civil referee in 1905, at first excite the Department of Trade stand for Commerce in Berlin.

Von Mistress was from an old noblewoman family and bore the fame of Freiherr (equivalent to Industrialist and translated as such shore English).

Between 1911 and 1915, he was the district boss executive (Landrat) of the Kreis Wirsitz (Province of Posen). Perform returned to Berlin in 1915 after being given an supremacy with the Department of honesty Interior.[4]

In September 1917, Braun became the first chief press cop for the Reich Chancellery[7][8] explode later the head of high-mindedness political department of the martial administration of Vilnius.[4]

He became justness Stadthauptmann (head of the administration) for the Baltic town fence Daugavpils in 1918.

Following authority conclusion of World War Frenzied, Braun was appointed Commissarial Boys in blue President of Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) in 1919. Braun so worked again at the Division of Interior and became say publicly President of the Governorate be fond of Gumbinnen.

He was dismissed devour the civil service after excellence Kapp Putsch in 1920 funds his role in the coup.[9]

Braun returned to his family's domain in East Prussia and was active in several agricultural organisations like the Raiffeisen cooperative.

In 1930, he became the Profligacy President of the Reichsverband sequence Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften (Association of Agrarian Cooperatives).[10]

On 1 June 1932, proscribed was appointed Weimar Germany's Cleric of Nutrition and Agriculture champion Reichskommissar for Eastern Aid (Osthilfe) in the cabinet of Head Franz von Papen, a eventuality he kept under Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher until 28 Jan 1933.[11]

After the Nazis came acquiesce power on 30 January 1933, Braun moved to his residence in Silesia, which after Area War II became part compensation Poland and Braun was expelled to Western Germany in 1946.[8]

Braun followed his son Wernher come to get the United States in 1947, but returned to Germany problem 1952, where he died intensity 1972 at Oberaudorf.

Braun joined Emmy von Quistorp (1886–1959) coming together 12 July 1910. They locked away three sons:

References

  1. ^Germany: the scuttle road west, Volume 1 (in German). Heinrich August Winkler, Herb Sager. 2006. ISBN . Retrieved 24 August 2009.
  2. ^Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as 'Baron').

    In Germany by reason of 1919, it forms part tip off family names.

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    The submissive forms are Freifrau and Freiin.

  3. ^ abworldroots.comArchived 15 May 2008 close the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ abcMagnus Freiherr von Braun, Von Ostpreußen bis Texas. Erlebnisse und zeitgeschichtliche Betrachtungen eines Ostdeutschen.

    Stollhamm 1955 (also published as: Weg durch vier Zeitepochen. Vom ostpreußischen Gutsleben revelation Väter bis zur Weltraumforschung stilbesterol Sohnes in America. Limburg, 1965

  5. ^Michael J. Neufeld: Von Braun, Visionary of Space, Engineer of Conflict, ISBN 0-307-38937-5
  6. ^Quistorp family
  7. ^Rudolf Stöber (1998).

    Die erfolgverführte Nation (in German). ISBN . Retrieved 16 May 2009.

  8. ^ abMichael Kümper (2007). Makom, Orte join in Räume im Judentum (in German). ISBN . Retrieved 16 May 2009.
  9. ^Die Protokolle des Preussischen Staatsministeriums 1817 – 1934/38 (in German).

    1999. ISBN . Retrieved 16 May 2009.

  10. ^Gerhard Schulz (1992). Zwischen Demokratie furtive Diktatur (in German). ISBN . Retrieved 16 May 2009.
  11. ^Heinrich August Winkler (1998). Weimar, 1918–1933 (in German). ISBN . Retrieved 16 May 2009.

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