Albert Hackelsberger

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Albert Hackelsberger

Albert Hackelsberger (born October 17, 1893 at Gut Poikam ; † September 25, 1940 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( center ).

Life

Youth, military service, studies and work

Hackelsberger was born the son of a landowner. He attended humanistic grammar schools in Regensburg and Munich. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the 3rd Badische Dragoon Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22 , most recently as a lieutenant , in the First World War. He was wounded three times and received several awards.

After the November Revolution, Hackelsberger became chairman of the soldiers' council in Lörrach. In 1919 he took over the command of the West Border Guard of the Baden People's Army. In the same year he left the Reichswehr as Rittmeister . He then began to become more politically active in the Center Party , which he had joined in 1919.

In 1920 Hackelsberger began studying economics at Freiburg , which he continued in 1921 at Heidelberg . He then studied law in Würzburg , Freiburg and Heidelberg. At the same time, from 1922 to 1925, he completed training in banking and commercial operations. In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. phil. and in 1925 in Würzburg as Dr. jur. PhD .

Hackelsberger had married Helene van Eyck. In 1925, after the retirement of his father-in-law Georg van Eyck, he became general director of J. Weck & Co. in Öflingen and held the position until 1938.

Political activity

In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 Hackelsberger was a candidate of the Center for the constituency 32 (Baden) in the Reichstag elected. In the Reichstag elections of November 1932 and March 1933, Hackelsberg's mandate as a candidate for the center was confirmed.

At the beginning of 1933 Hackelsberger was elected one of the two deputy chairmen of the Center Party. In March 1933 Hackelsberger was, together with the chairman of the Ludwig Kaas party and the other deputy chairman, Adam Stegerwald , one of three center representatives who negotiated with Adolf Hitler about the conditions for the center's approval of the Enabling Act . Hackelsberger justified his support for Hitler with his view that this was the lesser evil that must be supported in order to avert greater dangers: “Hitler is Kerensky . More than one Lenin lurks behind the scenes. "

Memorial plaque in what is now the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing

In July 1933, Hackelsberger became the liaison between the former center members of the Reichstag, who now belonged to parliament as non-party “guests”, and the NSDAP.

From June 7 to 14, 1933, Hackelsberger stayed in Rome in connection with the negotiations on the Reich Concordat : there he conveyed Franz von Papen Kaas' wishes about the wording of the depoliticization article and brought Heinrich Brüning the text of the draft concordat.

From November 1933 to December 1938 he was a member of the Reichstag as a guest of the NSDAP faction.

In 1934 Hackelsberger was commissioned by the Baden government to broker the vacant abbey building in St. Blasien. Hackelsberger therefore advocated making the buildings available to the Jesuits of Stella Matutina from Feldkirch for use as a school with boarding school. There was a need for this because the National Socialists had closed the borders of the Reich for primary school children and the flow of foreign currency to Austria in order to counteract the Jesuit pedagogy in the German college abroad. His involvement, among many victims, in the founding of the St. Blasien College is seen as an aversion to and a clear affront to the Nazi regime. Among other things, it is certainly causal for his subsequent imprisonment.

Arrest and death

On September 20, 1938, Hackelsberger was arrested by the Secret State Police at Tutzing Castle near Tutzing on Lake Starnberg , which he had acquired 2 years earlier as a summer residence . After a stopover in Munich, he was taken to the Freiburg remand prison. He was accused of "treason" and "foreign currency offenses", but was never charged. In December 1938 his seat in the Reichstag was revoked and his successor until the end of the war was Adolf Schmid . The St. Blasien College was closed again by the National Socialist rulers in March 1939, "because the conditions under which the permit was granted can no longer be regarded as given".

In August 1940, after two years of solitary confinement and numerous Gestapo interrogations, Hackelsberger fell ill and was taken to a Freiburg clinic. There he was still considered a prisoner on remand who was "always to be kept under lock and key" in a single room. Six weeks later he died of the consequences of the conditions of detention in connection with an illness from the First World War.

Hackelsberger's estate was confiscated by the Gestapo, according to the “Central Estate Database”. According to the same database, his whereabouts are unknown. Parts of his art collection were auctioned in Berlin in October 1940 as the Schloss Tutzing collection . His wife Helene sold the castle in 1940 to Ida Kaselowsky, heiress of the Oetker company in Bielefeld.

Memberships

Awards

criticism

  • Heinrich Brüning accused him of having pushed for the adoption of the Enabling Act by the Center MPs and later for the dissolution of the Center Party at an early stage.
  • Reinhold Heinen disparaged Hackelsberger as a "political profiteer".

Fonts

  • From Erfurt to Görlitz. Study on the spiritual transformation of socialism. s. l. 1923. (Heidelberg dissertation)
  • The blackmail taking into account the German drafts of a Reich Penal Code and Austrian and Swiss law. s. l. 1925. (Würzburg dissertation)
  • God, man, technology, science. Paderborn 1937.
  • Encyclical Quadragesimo anno and the new economic order. Essen 1933.

Commemoration

  • A plaque commemorates him in the inner courtyard of Tutzing Castle.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Plum: Social structure and political consciousness in a Catholic ... , 1971, p. 273.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Volk: Das Reichskonkordat from July 20, 1933. Research , 1972, p. 121.
  3. ^ Josef Adamek: Factory and College, the unequal heirs in the St. Blasien monastery. In: Historical Exhibition Monastery St. Blasien 1983 e. V. Badenia, Karlsruhe 1983, pp. 325-326.
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung of Friday, January 16, 2009
  5. ^ Website Kolleg St. Blasien , as of November 5, 2015
  6. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): Md R. The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 250f. In contrast, Forschbach states that Hackelsberger was killed in the Freiburg prison: Edmund Forschbach: Edgar J. Jung. A Conservative Revolutionary June 30, 1934 , 1984, p. 84.
  7. ^ Meike Hopp: Art trade in National Socialism: Adolf Weinmüller in Munich and Vienna. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012 ISBN 978-3-412-20807-3 . P. 92f
  8. ↑ Christopher Simpson: War Crimes of the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank , 2002, p. 59.
  9. ↑ Jürgen Heideking / Gerhard Schulz: Paths into contemporary history: Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Gerhard Schulz , 1989, p. 65.
personal data
SURNAME Hackelsberger, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Good Poikam
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1940
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau