Marius Molsen (; 2 December 1899 – 3 December 1971) was a German lawyer and statesman. From 1934 to 1938, he was the high mayor of Szczecin. Later, he served as the administrator of the Moravský Beroun district from 1938 to 1941 and acting administrator of the Jarocin district from 1941 to 1943. From 1943 to 1944, he was a ministerial councilor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. He was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Biography Marius Molsen was born on 2 December 1899 in Flensburg, Germany. He studied law at the Kiel University, the Leipzig University, and the University of Hamburg. He passed the second state examination in 1926, and worked at the district office in Wetzlar until 1933.Marius Molsen: Denkschrift: Deutsche Volkstumarbeit als Grenzaufgabe, Flensburg. (in German). On 1 February 1933, Molsen joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party.German Federal Archives, R 9361-II/722625. (in German) From 1933, he worked in Szczecin (then known as Stettin). On 1 May 1933, he was appointed as a government councilor and assigned to the police headquarters.BA/NS 25/320, vol. 4. Brief Gauleitung Pommern an Reichsleitung 27 February 1934. (in German) On 27 October 1933, he became an acting mayor of Szczecin, and was officially appointed to the office on 27 January 1934. He remained in office until 24 August 1934. Following the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany in 1938, was appointed as the administrator of the Moravský Beroun district (then known as Bärn). From 1941 to 1943, he substituted for the district administrator Peter Orlowski in the Jarocin district (then known as Jarotschin).Detlef Brandes: Umvolkung, Umsiedlung, rassische Bestandsaufnahme – NS-"Volkstumspolitik" in den böhmischen Ländern. Oldenbourg, München, 2012, p. 301. ISBN 978-3-486-71242-1. (in German) From 1943 to 1944, he was a ministerial councilor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. After the end of the Second World War, he lived in Flensburg, where he died on 3 December 1971.Andrea Löw (editor): Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945, vol. 3: Deutsches Reich und Protektorat September 1939 – September 1941, München 2012, p. 268. ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7. (in German)
Books Denkschrift: Deutsche Volkstumarbeit als Grenzaufgabe (self-published; Flensburg)
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