Gustav Koenigs

Gustav Hermann William August Koenigs (21 December 1882 – 15 April 1945) was a German lawyer and State Secretary of Transport during the Weimar period and the Third Reich. The conspirators of the 20 July plot planned for him to become Reich Transport Minister (German: Reichsverkehrsminister) had the coup d'état succeeded.

Early life and education

Gustav Koenigs was born in Düsseldorf. When his father became an official in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry, the family moved to Berlin and Gustav attended school in the district of Schöneberg. Koenigs followed in his father's footsteps, studying law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn and finally back in Berlin. After completing his clerkship in 1909, he worked in various positions in District of Blumenthal, his hometown of Düsseldorf, and in Nauen. In 1920 he was appointed Undersecretary at the Department of Waterways in the Reich Ministry of Transport (German: Reichsverkehrsministerium). He was promoted and became head of the Department for Inland and Maritime transport on April 1, 1921.

On December 30, 1931, he was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Transport. At that time it was led by Theodor von Guérard. He retained his position under Guérard's successors, Gottfried Treviranus and Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach.

References

• Gottwaldt, Alfred; Schulle, Diana (2007). Juden ist die Benutzung von Speisewagen untersagt: Die Antijüdische Politik des Reichsverkehrsministeriums Zwischen 1933 und 1945 [Jews are Forbidden in the Dining Car: the anti-Jewish policy of the Reichsverkehrsministerium between 1933 and 1945]. Teetz: Hentrich & Hentrich. ISBN 978-3-938485-64-4. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External links

• Literature by and about Gustav Koenigs in the German National Library catalogue
• Newspaper clippings about Gustav Koenigs in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW