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Karl Steinhoff (
November 24,
1892 –
July 19,
1981) was a
Minister-President (
Ministerpräsident) of the
German state (
Land) of
Brandenburg, then part of
East Germany, and later served as East Germany's
Minister of the Interior.
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. In 1921-23 he was active in the Ministry of the Interior and Justice; in 1924 served as Legation Secretary (
Legationssekretär) of the
Saxon legation in Berlin; in 1925-26 as a government advisor (
Regierungsrat) in the administration (
Amtshauptmannschaft) of
Zittau; in 1927-28 as district chief (
Landrat) of
Zeitz; and later as a vice president (
Regierungsvizepräsident) in
Gumbinnen and vice president (
Vize-Oberpräsident) in Königsberg.
Politically, he'd joined the
Social Democratic Party (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 1940-45, 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 (
Provinzialverwaltung) of Brandenburg. He joined the
Socialist Unity Party (SED) in
1946, and from 1946-49 served as Brandenburg's Minister-President and as a member of its state parliament (
Landtag). 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 (
Deutscher Volksrat) from 1948-49, and from 1950-54 a member of the
Volkskammer. 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 (
Vaterländischer Verdienstorden), the honor clip (
Ehrenspange) to the Fatherland Order of Merit, and the
Order of Karl Marx.
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