Braun, Magnus, Freiherr von, 1878-1972

LC control no.	n 88678374
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Braun, Magnus, Freiherr von, 1878-1972 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Braun, Magnus, Freiherr von, b. 1878 Von Braun, Magnus, Freiherr, 1878-1972
Birth date	1878-02-07
Death date	1972-08-29
Place of birth	Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia)
Place of death	Oberaudorf (Germany)
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Politicians
Found in	nuc88-134444: His Von Ostpreussen bis Texas [MI], c1955 (hdg. on MH rept.: Braun, Magnus, Freiherr von, 1878- ; usage: Magnus Frhr. von Braun) Die Bedeutung der Absatzfrage für die Landwirtschaft, 1931: title page (Magnus Frh. von Braun) Wikipedia, March 22, 2016 (Magnus von Braun (senior); Magnus Alexander Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German jurist and politician; Magnus von Braun was born at his family's manor of Neucken near Preussisch Eylau (present-day Dubki near Bagrationovsk, Russia) in East Prussia on February 7, 1878; he studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Königsberg and joined the Prussian civil service in 1905, at first at the department of trade and commerce in Berlin; between 1911 and 1915 he was the district chief executive (Landrat) of the Kreis Wirsitz (Province of Posen); he returned to Berlin in 1915 to the department of interior; iIn September 1917 Braun became the first chief press officer of the Reich Chancellery and later the head of the political department of the military administration of Vilnius; he became the Stadthauptmann (head of the administration) of Daugavpils in 1918 and commissarial Police President of Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) in 1919; Braun then worked again at the department of interior and became the President of the Governorate of Gumbinnen; he was dismissed from the civil service after the Kapp Putsch in 1920 for his role in the coup; he returned to his family's manor in East Prussia and was active in several agricultural organisations like the Raiffeisen cooperative; in 1930 he became the Vice President of the Reichsverband der Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften (Association of Agricultural Cooperatives); on 1 June 1932 he was appointed Weimar Germany's Minister of Nutrition and Agriculture and Reichskommissar for Eastern Aid (Osthilfe) in the cabinet of Chancellor Franz von Papen, a position he kept under Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher until 28 January 1933; after the Nazis came to power in 1933, Braun moved to his manor in Silesia, which after World War II became part of Poland; Braun was expelled to Western Germany in 1946; Braun followed his son Wernher to the United States in 1947, but returned to Germany in 1952; he died August 29, 1972 in Oberaudorf; he was the father of Sigismund von Braun (1911-1998), diplomat; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), rocket scientist; and Magnus von Braun (1919-2003), industrial manager)
Associated language	ger