Oskar Georg Fischbach (14 December 1880 – 1967) was a German lawyer and civil servant who was involved in drafting the civil service law at the end of the

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and various official laws of

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Life

Oskar Georg Fischbach was born in

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, then in Germany, on 14 December 1880. He gained a doctorate of

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in Strasbourg in 1907. In 1915 he was appointed to the District Court of Strasbourg. Fischbach became a civil servant in the Reich Treasury, then in the Reich Ministry of Finance. He became a member of the

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in May 1933, and was a member of the subcommittee on Civil Service Law of

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. He worked on drafts of the Nazi laws, including the German Civil Service act of 1937. In 1945 he was appointed the last president of the National Debt Office, succeeding Ernst Articus. After

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(1939–45) the arbitration board of the Greater Berlin Magistrature rejected his

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. However, the American military government allowed his denazification as a so-called follower. He became an author, and during the early years of the

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commented on the new Federal Civil Service Act. He died in 1967.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fischbach, Oskar Georg 1880 births 1967 deaths Lawyers in the Nazi Party Members of the Academy for German Law People from Strasbourg 20th-century German civil servants 20th-century German lawyers