Magnus von Braun (senior)
| Magnus Freiherr von Braun | |
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| Born |
Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr von Braun February 7, 1878 Neucken/Pr. Eylau, East Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | August 29, 1972 (aged 94) Oberaudorf, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Politician, civil servant |
| Political party | DNVP |
| Spouse(s) | Emmy von Quistorp (m. 1910–59) |
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Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (7 February 1878 – 29 August 1972) was a German jurist and politician.
Magnus von Braun was born at his family's manor of Neucken, an estate the von Brauns had 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.
With his father's death in 1918, he inherited the title of Freiherr (equivalent to Baron); he lost it again in 1919 when the Weimar Constitution abolished the nobility, and "Freiherr" became simply part of his surname.
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 (now Szczecin, Poland) 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.
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