Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr
von Braun (8 February 1878 – 30 August 1972) was a
German
jurist and politician.
Biography
Braun was
born at his family's manor of Neucken, an estate the von Braun's
owned since 1803, near Pr.
Eylau (present-day Dubki near Bagrationovsk, Russia
) in East Prussia to Maximilian von Braun
(1833–1918) and Eleonore (née von Gostkowski)
(1842–1928).
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
) and returned to Berlin in 1915 to the department
of interior.
In
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
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.
Braun 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 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 on 30 January
1933, Braun moved to his manor in
Silesia,
which after
World War II became part of
Poland and
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, where he
died in 1972 at Oberaudorf
.
Braun married Emmy von Quistorp (1886–1959) on 12 July 1910. They
had three sons:
References
- Magnus Freiherr von Braun, Von Ostpreußen bis Texas.
Erlebnisse und zeitgeschichtliche Betrachtungen eines
Ostdeutschen. Stollhamm 1955 (also published as: Weg durch
vier Zeitepochen. Vom ostpreußischen Gutsleben der Väter bis zur
Weltraumforschung des Sohnes in Amerika. Limburg, 1965
- Michael J. Neufeld: Von Braun, Dreamer of Space, Engineer of
War, ISBN 0307389375
- worldroots.com
- Quistorp family
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