Hans Globke
German politician (1898–1973)
Hans Globke
Hans Josef Maria Globke (10 September 1898 – 13 February 1973) was a high-ranking German civil servant and lawyer who played a central role in both the Nazi regime and the early West German government. While not himself a member of the Nazi party (his application was rejected), he was one of the regime's most influential civil servants. Globke worked in the Prussian and Reich Ministry of the Interior in the Reich, under the Weimar Republic and Nazism. Later, he was the Under-Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery in West Germany from 28 October 1953 to 15 October 1963 under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He is the most prominent example of the continuity of the administrative elites between Nazi Germany and the early West Germany. In 1936, Globke wrote a legal annotation on the antisemitic Nuremberg Race Laws that did not express any objection to the discrimination against Jews, placing the Nazi Party on a firmer legal ground and setting the path to the Holocaust during...
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