Karl Steinhoff
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Karl Steinhoff (November 24, 1892 – July 19, 1981) was a Minister-president (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of the German state (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of Brandenburg, then part of East Germany, and later served as East Germany's Minister of the Interior.[1]
Biography
Born in Herford, Steinhoff studied law from 1910 through 1921 at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, Königsberg, Berlin, and Münster, earning his doctorate in 1921. From 1921 to 1923, he was active in the Ministry of the Interior and Justice; in 1924 served as Legation Secretary (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of the Saxon legation in Berlin; in 1925-26 as a government advisor (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in the administration (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of Zittau; in 1927–28 as district chief (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of Zeitz; and later as a vice president (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in Gumbinnen and vice president (Script error: No such module "Lang".) in Königsberg.
Politically, he had joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1923. Amidst the turmoil of the early 1930s (see Nazi Germany), he was given time off in 1932 and dismissed from government service in 1933. From 1940 to 1945, during World War II, he served as lawyer for a cardboard-box wholesale business in Berlin.
At the end of the war in 1945, he became president of the provincial administration (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of Brandenburg. He joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1946, and from 1946 to 1949 served as Brandenburg's Minister-President and as a member of its state parliament. From 1949-52 he was East Germany's Minister of the Interior; his dismissal at the end of that time was arranged by Walter Ulbricht.
During that time, he was a member of the German People's Council (Script error: No such module "Lang".) from 1948–49, and from 1950 to 1954 a member of the Script error: No such module "Lang".. Within the SED, he was a member of the central committee of the SED from 1949-54. He also served as a professor of administrative law at Humboldt University in Berlin from 1949-55.
He received the Fatherland Order of Merit (Script error: No such module "Lang".), the honor clip (Script error: No such module "Lang".) to the Fatherland Order of Merit, and the Order of Karl Marx.
He was the oldest former Minister-President of East Germany. Steinhoff was preceded by Wilhelm Höcker and succeeded by Max Seydewitz.
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- 1892 births
- 1981 deaths
- People from Herford
- People from the Province of Westphalia
- Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
- Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
- Government ministers of East Germany
- Members of the Provisional Volkskammer
- Minister-presidents of Brandenburg
- Members of the Landtag of Brandenburg
- Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit (honor clasp)