Adalbert Wolpert

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Adalbert Wolpert (born September 30, 1897 in Krautheim an der Jagst , Tauberbischofsheim district ; † May 4, 1968 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer, qualified commercial teacher , SA-Obersturmführer and politician (1933 to 1945 NSDAP, from 1956 free voter community) . He was mayor in Rodalben , Lohr am Main , Bad Kissingen , Würzburg and Dresden .

Life

Adalbert Wolpert, the son of a master teacher answered on the visit to the school as a volunteer and took from 1914 to 1918 at the First World War, in part, most recently as a lieutenant . During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords . After the end of the World War he was still active in the Freikorps .

He began to study law in Heidelberg in the winter semester of 1919/20 , which he completed in 1923 with the Bavarian trainee examination. Here he became active with the Thuringia singers . After a year of preparatory judicial service, he entered the commercial college in Mannheim , because he was refused further work in the Bavarian civil service due to his lack of Bavarian citizenship. In 1925 he received his doctorate from the law and political science faculty of the University of Würzburg . His dissertation is on "The crime of poisoning with special consideration of the attempt" . In the following year, 1926, he passed the commercial teacher examination in Mannheim . In the following year 1927 Wolpert was elected First Mayor of the Rodalben community in the Palatinate for a period of ten years .

During the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists on April 15, 1933, he was appointed First Mayor of Lohr am Main . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP and within a short time made a party career. In July of that year he became district manager of the “Office for Local Politics” and in 1934 he was appointed Gauamtsleiter for local politics . Wolpert thus belonged to the inner circle of the Main Franconian Gauleitung . On April 2, 1935 he was appointed honorary leader of the Reich Labor Service with the rank of field master. In 1937 he was appointed honorary labor leader and SA-Obersturmführer .

According to a government resolution of April 6, 1939, Wolpert was appointed full-time Lord Mayor of Bad Kissingen and took up his post as successor to Max Pollwein on June 3, 1939 in the presence of some of the big players . On July 31, 1939, Wolpert resigned from the Catholic Church.

As captain of the reserve he served during the western campaign in 1940 with 4, / IR 106 , in 1942 he was commander III./IR 451 .

At the special request of Gauleiter Mainfranken Otto Hellmuth , Wolpert was appointed full-time second legally qualified mayor of the city of Würzburg under Theo Memmel on August 1, 1943 as the current successor to Oskar Rudolf Dengel , who was appointed Vice President of the Government in Würzburg . There he was also city ​​treasurer . The prerequisite for qualification for judicial office or higher administrative service required in Section 40 of the German Municipal Code was suspended upon his appointment with the tolerance of the Reich Governor of Bavaria. In order to be able to take up this position, however, his current employer, the councilors of the city of Bad Kissingen, had to leave him on leave until further notice on July 19, 1943. On August 1, 1944, Wolpert was finally dismissed from the office of Mayor of Bad Kissingen.

Wolpert had already started his service in Department IV of the Reich Ministry of the Interior in May 1944 as head of the subdivision “Personnel Affairs of the Communities and Community Associations”. In August 1944 he became head of the department “Participation in the simplification of the armed forces ”. Finally, in March 1945, on the orders of Heinrich Himmler, he was temporarily commissioned with the management of the business of the Lord Mayor of Dresden. In the last days of the war he played a key role in the surrender of Bad Kissingen to the Americans without a fight.

After the Second World War he was the founder and executive chairman of the non-profit reconstruction cooperative “Heimathilfe” and, from 1956, an honorary city councilor of the Free Voting Community in Würzburg.

Orders and decorations

literature

  • Peter Weidisch: Dr. Adalbert Wolpert . In: Peter Weidisch, Thomas Ahnert (ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen (801-2001). Facets of a city's history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and book accompanying the exhibition. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 .
  • Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the »Third Reich«. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 227 f., And p. 1278 f., Note 166.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Wagner: Würzburg rulers, Bavarian minister-presidents, chairmen of the district council / district council presidents, regional presidents, bishops, lord mayors 1814–2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1221-1224; here: p. 1224.
  2. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 227 f.
  3. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall and Veit Scherzer : Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, History and Proprietor Volume II , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 523
predecessor Office successor
Hans Nieland Lord Mayor of Dresden
1945 		Rudolf Friedrichs
personal data
SURNAME Wolpert, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Krautheim (Jagst) , Tauberbischofsheim district
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 1968
Place of death Wurzburg