Josef Frenken

Lambert Joseph Alois Frenken, Joseph ( born September 27, 1854 in Löcken; † September 10, 1943 in Cologne) was a German lawyer, civil servant and politician ( center ).

Life and career

Frenken was born the son of a district physician and Health Council. After graduating from high school, he took up studies in law and political science at the universities of Marburg, Göttingen and Bonn, which he in 1878 with the first legal state examination and awarded the degree of Dr. jur. finished. He then joined as a court clerk entered the Prussian judicial service. It was 1883, the second state examination in law, then was a junior barrister and worked since 1889 as a prosecutor in Cologne. Later he worked as a High Court Judge in Celle.

Frenken was appointed in 1900 as a Privy Councillor and lecturer Council into Prussian Ministry of Justice, received in 1904 the appointment as Privy Councillor and was since 1913 as Secretary of character as a Privy Councillor top leader of the local department of criminal and prison system. From 1916 to 1922 he was President of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne. After his retirement, he served from November 1921 until his death as the ninth president of the Central Cathedral Association in Cologne.

Frenken was married in 1896 to Maria Eleonore of sea, with whom he had seven children.

Public offices

Frenken officiated from 1914 to 1916 as Under Secretary in the Ministry of Alsace- Lorraine. On January 16, 1925, he was appointed as Minister of Justice in the run by Chancellor Hans Luther government. At the same time he took over as acting head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Territories. Due to its negative attitude to the Locarno treaties he gave on November 21, 1925 announced his retirement and retired from the national government from.