Ernst von Harnack

Ernst von Harnack

Ernst Wolf Alexander Oskar Harnack (15 July, 1888 – 5 March, 1945), granted the title von Harnack in 1914, was an official of the Prussian provincial government, a German politician, and a resistance fighter. He was arrested, tried and executed in March 1945 at Plötzensee Prison for political opposition to the Nazi Party.

Family

Harnack was born in Marburg as the son of the theologian Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) and Amalie Thiersch (1858-1937), the granddaughter of the chemist Justus von Liebig. On 25 March 1916, in Hindenburg (Upper Silesia), he married Anna (Änne) Wiggert (b. 5 October, 1894, in Göttelborn, Ottweiler district , Saarland; d. 22 August, 1960, in Berlin), daughter of the Prussian official Ernst Wiggert and Elizabeth Schmidt. They had two sons and three daughters.

Life

After a year's private instruction, Harnack attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin, where he took the Abitur in 1907. Then he studied law at the University of Marburg and later in Berlin. On 6 May 1911, he took the bar examination and began afterwards working at a magistrate's Court in the Lichterfelde of Berlin. From 1 October 1911 to 30 September 1912, he spent a year doing military service as an Einjährig-Freiwilliger. From 2 August 1914 to 15 May 1915 he served in the First World War and was active with civil administration in Russian Poland. He began his official career on 8 March 1913 as a governmental junior lawyer in Oppeln. On 29 June 1918, he was appointed as a civil servant ("Regierungsassessor") in the Ministry of Science, Art and National Education. He was promoted on 24 January 1921 to "Regierungsrat". From 15 August 1921 to 9 November 1923 and from 1 June 1924 to 31 May 1925 he was a "Landrat" in Hersfeld-Rotenburg, with an appointment as "Landrat" in Uecker-Randow in the period between. On 1 June 1925 he was appointed vice head of the regional government ("Regierungsvizepräsident") in Hanover. He was transferred on 1 April 1927 in the same position in Cologne. On 8 August 1929, he started as of the head of the provincial government ("Regierungspräsident") in Merseburg.

Harnack was dismissed from government service after the so-called Preußenschlag by Reichskanzler (Chancellor) Franz von Papen on 20 July 1932. On 27 November 1921 he was elected to the executive committee of the "Bundes religiöser Sozialisten" (Federation of Religious Socialists). Harnack was arrested in 1933, after he had tried to determine the murderers of the former Prime Minister and SPD politician Johann Stelling, murdered during the so-called Night of the Long Knives. In co-operation with Willi Wohlberedt, he created a graves registration index cards for Berlin.

Accused of being a participant in the July 20 Plot in 1944, he was executed in March 1945 and buried in an unmarked grave. His name appears on a family grave marker in Berlin.

External links

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