Magnus von Braun (senior)
Magnus Freiherr von Braun ( born February 7, 1878 Good Neucken, County Prussian Eylau; † August 29, 1972 in the village of Oberau ) was a German jurist and politician ( DNVP ).
Family
His parents were Maximilian von Braun ( born March 20, 1833 † March 11, 1918 ) and his wife Eleonore of fire widowed Gostkowski ( born April 17, 1842 † May 5, 1928 ). Magnus von Braun married on July 12, 1910 Good Crenzow (District of Greifswald, Pomerania ) Emmy by Quistorp ( 1886-1959 ), the daughter of the landowner and Prussian politician Wernher von Quistorp ( 1856-1908 ) and Marie von Below (1861 - 1903). His sons were Sigismund von Braun ( diplomat ), Wernher von Braun ( rocket scientist and engineer the A4 and the Saturn of the Apollo program ) and Magnus von Braun ( Engineer, Manager at Chrysler ).
Life
After high school, Brown studied law and political science at Gottingen and Konigsberg. In Göttingen he joined in 1896 the Corps Saxonia on. He finished his studies in 1902 and 1905, with the first to the second state examination in law, then entered the Prussian civil service and initially worked in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. From 1911 to 1915 he was district administrator in the county Wirsitz ( Posen ). In 1915 he was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior and in 1917 promoted to Assistant Secretary of State and chief press officer at the Reich Chancellery. He was appointed head of the political department of the German military administration in Vilna the end of 1917, in 1918, he served temporarily as a city captain in Daugavpils.
In 1919 he served as Acting Chief of Police in Stettin, he took over under the Social Democratic Minister Wolfgang Heine, the Office of Personnel Council in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. Criticism from the SPD parliamentary group at his conservative office management, especially in the filling of District sites led to his dismissal at the same time nomination for the provincial government in the East Prussian Gumbinnen. As a result of the Kapp Putsch he had to retire from government service in March 1920.
During the period of the Weimar Republic Brown was active in agricultural organizations. He served as Director of Raiffeisen cooperatives for Brandenburg, Schleswig -Holstein and the boundary Posen- West Prussia since 1920. In 1930 he became vice-president of the Imperial Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives.
He was appointed on 1 June 1932 as Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture as well as Reich Commissioner for the aid to Eastern Europe in led by Chancellor Franz von Papen government and remained in the led by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher follow- government in office. On 28 January 1933 he resigned with the entire Cabinet Schleicher from his offices. Furthermore, he was from October 1932 to February 1933 Reich Commissioner for the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture.
In 1947 he followed his son Wernher von Braun in the United States, returned in 1952 but returned to Germany and then lived in Landshut. He later moved to the village of Oberau am Inn, where he died in 1972. There is also the family tomb.
Writings
- From East Prussia to Texas. Experiences and contemporary considerations of East Germans. Stollhamm 1955 From the third, revised edition under the title. Way through four eras. From the East Prussian Gutsleben of the fathers to the space research of the son in America. Limburg, 1965.