Alarich Seidler

Alarich Hermann Ivo Seidler (born May 31, 1897 in Konstanz , † November 12, 1979 in Schongau ) was a German SA leader and founder of the Bavarian State Association for Hiking and Homeland Service .

Life

Seidler was the son of an art professor and worked as a businessman. He joined the NSDAP and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1922. After the NSDAP was banned, he rejoined the party in early February 1933 ( membership number 1.471.334). Within the SA Seidler later rose to standartenführer .

From 1923 Alarich headed the nutrition committee of the NSDAP in Munich. Seidler belonged to the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) and was the first NSV district manager in the Munich-Upper Bavaria district . From 1932 he headed the NS emergency aid in Munich and in the same year became the NSDAP's state commissioner for the Bavarian emergency areas . He also headed the Winter Relief Organization in Munich , was state commissioner in Bavaria and deputy special commissioner in the Upper Bavarian government. Due to embezzlement and irregularities, Seidler was released from his post in the NSV in 1935 and from this point on he was involved in setting up the Bavarian hiking service.

Seidler founded the Bavarian State Association for Hiking and Home Service (LVW) in 1934 and was its chairman until 1945. The LVW was located in Munich's Widenmayerstraße and worked closely with Nazi welfare authorities, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the police. The purpose of this association was the persecution of "anti-social" and / or elimination of immigrant poverty, among other things through instruction in compulsory welfare institutions and the establishment of an "anti-social index". The anti-social problem should be solved according to the motto “care against work”. In July 1936, Seidler led a major raid against "anti-social and work-shy" people, in which 1,307 people were arrested. 736 of those arrested were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp for two weeks . A large number of the people taken into custody were taken to facilities of the LVW. Seidler had his official residence in the Herzogsägmühle preservation facility near Schongau , a “central wandering farm” for non-residents.

"Anyone in need of help in a hospital in Bavaria today has already been arrested, so to speak."

- Alarich Seidler in October 1936 during the general meeting of migrant workplaces

Wilhelm Polligkeit and Hilde Eiserhardt , who held leading positions in the German Association for Public and Private Welfare before the National Socialist takeover , worked with Seidler. Together, Seidler, Polligkeit and Eiserhardt acted as editors of the 1938 publication Der Nonseßhaft Mensch , in which the premises of Bavarian wandering welfare were propagated as the basis for a "Reich solution to the anti-social question". Alaric was one of the first advocates of a radical alien law in February 1939 .

From 1936 to 1939 Seidler was also a trustee of the Gestapo . From 1944, he ran a quarantine camp for foreign forced laborers suffering from tuberculosis .

After the end of the Second World War , Seidler was interned by the Allies from 1945 to 1947. Seidler was denazified as exonerated and later headed a management consultancy office. He lived in Peiting .

literature

• Anne-Dore Stein: The scientification of the social Wilhelm Polligkeit between individual care and population policy in National Socialism. Perspectives of Critical Social Work Vol. 4, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16614-8 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Wolfgang Ayaß (edit.): “Community strangers”. Sources on the persecution of "anti-social" 1933–1945 , Koblenz 1998.
• Wolfgang Ayaß: "Asocial" in National Socialism. Stuttgart 1995.
• Rudolph Bauer : Seidler, Alarich , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 546f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alarich Seidler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Federal Association for Homeless Aid eV: A "regional association for hiking service" (PDF; 6.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 577.
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Matthias Willing: The Preservation Act (1918-1967). A legal historical study on the history of German welfare. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, p. 176.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Ayaß: “Asocial” in National Socialism. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91704-7 , p. 238.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Institute for Contemporary History : Archive - Find means Online ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 116 kB), inventory: ED 728, Bavarian State Association for Hiking and Homeland Service Munich, p. 3. 
5. ^ ^{A b c} Anne-Dore Stein: The scientification of the social Wilhelm Polligkeit between individual care and population policy in National Socialism. Perspectives of Critical Social Work Vol. 4, Wiesbaden 2009, p. 324.
6. ↑ Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century (Ed.): Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century. Volume 9, 1994, p. 52.
7. ^ Architecture Museum Munich; Winfried Nerdinger (ed.): Place and memory. National Socialism in Munich. Salzburg-Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7025-0528-8 , p. 85.
8. ^ Cf. Annette Eberle: Herzogsägmühle in the time of National Socialism. Peiting, Herzogsägmühle 1994.
9. ↑ Quoted in Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 577.
10. ^ Matthias Willing: The Preservation Law (1918-1967). A legal historical study on the history of German welfare. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, p. 298