Albert Gilles

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Albert Gilles (born May 30, 1895 in Cologne , † June 7, 1989 in Dellbrück (Cologne) ) was a German district administrator in the Bitburg district and in the Cochem district .

Life and career

The Catholic Albert Gilles was the son of the Higher Regional Court Councilor Privy Judicial Councilor Josef Gilles (born January 8, 1856 in Trier; died January 18, 1924 in Cologne) and his wife Anna Gilles, née Biwer. After visiting the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , of which he at Easter 1914, passing the matriculation examination was going on, he took a degree in law and economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn on. Interrupted by his military service from January 31, 1915 to November 1918 as a volunteer during the First World War , he then continued his studies in Cologne (1919–1920). In 1920 he received his doctorate in law in Heidelberg , and on May 1 of the same year he passed the first legal examination . When he entered the Prussian administrative service as a government referendar in 1921, he received his first tasks in the representative administration of the district offices in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) and Mülheim am Rhein . 1922 Albert Gilles was then in Cologne with the work of the International Settlement of unemployment insurance to Dr. rer. pole. ( rerum politicarum ) again did his doctorate, remained in the Prussian administration and, after being appointed government assessor in 1923, found employment with the government in Cologne and the district office of the district of Cologne .

District Administrator in Bitburg

In April 1925, initially transferred to the district office in Bitburg as an unskilled worker , Albert Gilles was appointed to succeed Friedrich Loenartz in June 1927 with the deputy administration of the district office. Loenartz had been retired on November 1, 1927 and at his own request because of the incompatibility of his office and his political activities. With a decree of December 15, 1927, Gilles was appointed provisional as district administrator in Bitburg, and the final appointment followed by a decree of January 20, 1928 (given to him on January 26). Officially, Gilles went into temporary retirement on November 4, 1938, “because of permanent incapacity” on the basis of Section 44 DBG. In fact, he left it at his own request, since he, who had been a member of the center since 1925 , no longer wanted to work with the National Socialists . In 1929 he was one of the main sponsors and founders of the then "District Home Museum " and today's District Museum in Bitburg, and at this time he was also a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament .

From 1939

Appointed as district administrator to the government in Lüneburg in January 1939 , where he was obliged to serve in the war administration, Albert Gilles was given a retirement from November 15, 1939 on March 1, 1940 due to permanent incapacity.

After the end of the war, Gilles was reappointed District Administrator in Bitburg on September 10, 1945, but released from this position on October 24, 1946. A renewed appointment as district administrator, now for the district of Cochem, took place on April 28, 1950. He was there until his retirement on May 1, 1960, primarily with the reconstruction of the district, which was largely damaged and destroyed during the Second World War employed.

In 1954 he founded the State Film Service of the new Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate from Cochem , and he was later elected as Honorary Chairman. During the reconstruction of the district of Cochem, great attention was paid to the vocational schools, here he was particularly committed to the construction of a new building for the district vocational school in the district town of Cochem. Furthermore, he had nut trees planted in many places on the Moselle, which he saw as an affair of the heart.

Honors

Albert Gilles has received numerous honors and awards. In 1960 the municipality of Treis made him one of its honorary citizens . In 1962 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, and the German Red Cross . In 1975 the district of Cochem-Zell awarded him his coat of arms plate on his 80th birthday and Pope Paul VI appointed him the following year . to Commander of the Order of Gregorius .

From January 1945 until the victory of the Allies over Germany in May 1945, the Gilles hid the couple Waldemar and Frieda Fritz, who lived in a privileged mixed marriage in the sense of the National Socialist rulers, and their son Walter, who was born in 1935, in their home in Rheinbreitbach . The Fritz couple ran a tobacco shop in Cologne for many years, through which they knew Albert Gilles as a customer. Frieda had converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1939. When in 1944 the threat of being deported and murdered for members of mixed marriages grew, they came back to an earlier offer of help from Albert Gilles. Although his immediate neighbors in Rheinbreitbach not only knew about the supposedly bombed-out, alleged relatives and adhered to National Socialism themselves, Albert and Marga Gilles ran the risk of discovery or betrayal that now existed for them as well, but they also hid a French one Prisoners of war. For their help, they were posthumously recognized as Righteous Among the Nations on June 6, 2005 by the Yad Vashem Memorial, following a request that had been running since September 2003 .

family

Albert Gilles married on December 15, 1923 in Cologne Marga Honecker, the daughter of the judiciary and notary Peter Honecker (born September 1, 1860 in Bonn; died October 6, 1926 in Cologne) and his wife Maria Honecker, née Brinck (born 25. December 1869 in Aachen; died September 17, 1918 in Rheinbreitbach). In 1983 the married couple Albert and Marga Gilles celebrated their diamond wedding . Albert Gilles was buried in his parents' family grave in Cologne.

literature

  • Albert Konzen: District events, 90th birthday of District Administrator i. R. Dr. Dr. Albert Gilles in Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 1986, p. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 469 f .
  2. ↑ after Alfons Friderichs : Gilles, Dr. Dr. Albert , in personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 123 Gilles was born in Rheinbreitbach.
  3. ↑ a b c d Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Gilles, Dr. Dr. Albert , in personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 123 f.
  4. ^ Horst Romeyk: Gilles, Albert, landrat . In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier biographical lexicon , Trier Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 133.
  5. ↑ Herbert M. Schleicher (arrangement): 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. Volume II Fr – Kn. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, Cologne, No. 38). Cologne 1987, p. 129.
  6. ^ A b c Horst Romeyk: Gilles, Albert in: Heinz Monz (complete editing.): Trier Biographical Lexicon. (= Publications of the Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Volume 87), Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 2000. ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 133.
  7. ↑ Katharina Hammermann: Ein Kreis und seine Museum , volksfreund.de of August 11, 2009, accessed on February 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Members of the Rhenish Provincial Diets 1888–1933 p. 3: Gilles, Dr. Albert , accessed February 4, 2019.
  9. ^ Landesfilmdienst RLP eV legal form, organization, founded in 1954 as Landesfilmdienst Rheinland-Pfalz eV , accessed on January 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ On June 6, 2005, Yad Vashem recognized Albert and Marga Gilles as Righteous Among the Nations at yadvashem.org, accessed January 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ Herbert M. Schleicher (arrangement): 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections. Volume II Fr – Kn. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, Cologne, No. 38). Cologne 1987, p. 463.
personal data
SURNAME Gilles, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator in the Bitburg district and in the Cochem district
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1989
Place of death Dellbrück (Cologne)