Meissner, Otto, 1880-1953

LC control no.	no 96058670
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Meissner, Otto, 1880-1953 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Meissner, O. (Otto), 1880-1953 Meissner, Otto Lebrecht, 1880-1953 Meissner, Otto Leberecht, 1880-1953 Lebrecht Meissner, Otto, 1880-1953 Leberecht Meissner, Otto, 1880-1953
Birth date	1880-03-13
Death date	1953-05-27
Place of birth	Bischwiller (France)
Place of death	Munich (Germany)
Field of activity	Administrative agencies--Management Executive departments
Profession or occupation	Government executives Lawyers
Found in	Meissner, Otto. Ebert, Hindenburg, Hitler, c1991: t.p. (Otto Meissner) jacket (b. 1880, d. 1953) Wikipedia, August 15, 2017 (Otto Lebrecht Eduard Daniel Meissner (13 March 1880, Bischwiller, Alsace - 27 May 1953, Munich) was head of the Office of the President of Germany during the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg and, finally, at the beginning of the Nazi government under Adolf Hitler. Meissner studied law in Strasbourg from 1898 to 1903 and earned his Doctor of Laws in 1908 in Erlangen, Bavaria. In 1919 Meissner became Acting Advisor in the Bureau of the President and by 1920 rose to the position of Ministerial Director and Head of the Bureau of the President. In 1937, Meissner was appointed State Minister of the Rank of a Federal Minister and Chief of the Presidential Chancellery of the Führer and Chancellor. In 1950, Meissner published a memoir covering his unusual bureaucrat's career in a book entitled State Secretary under Ebert, Hindenburg and Hitler. The writer Hans-Otto Meissner (1909-1992) was his son.) OCLC, August 15, 2017 (access points: Meissner, Otto; Meissner, Otto, 1880-; Meissner, Otto, 1880-1953; Meissner, Otto, (Otto Lebrecht), 1880-; Meissner, Otto Leberecht; Meissner, Otto Lebrecht Eduard ; usage: Otto Meissner, O. Meissner)
Associated language	ger