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Nationality
  
German

Name
  
Magnus Braun

Political party
  
DNVP

Role
  
German Politician

Magnus von Braun (senior)
Full Name
  
Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr von Braun

Born
  
February 7, 1878 (
1878-02-07
)
Neucken/Pr. Eylau, East Prussia, German Empire

Occupation
  
Politician, civil servant

Died
  
August 29, 1972, Oberaudorf, Germany

Spouse
  
Emmy von Quistorp (m. 1910–1959)

Children
  
Wernher von Braun, Sigismund von Braun, Magnus von Braun

Parents
  
Eleonore von Braun, Maximilian von Braun

Grandchildren
  
Margrit Cecile von Braun, Iris Careen von Braun, Peter Constantine von Braun

Similar People
  
Wernher von Braun, Margrit Cecile von Braun, Maria Luise von Quistorp, Walter Dornberger, Adolf Hitler

Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (7 February 1878 – 29 August 1972) was a German jurist and politician.

Biography

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 (nee von Gostkowski) (1842–1928).

He studied law at the Universities of Gottingen and Konigsberg 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 (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.

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 (Osthilfe) 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:

  • Sigismund von Braun (1911–1998), diplomat
  • Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), rocket scientist
  • Magnus von Braun (1919–2003), industrial manager
  • References

    Magnus von Braun (senior) Wikipedia