Albert Leiterer

Albert Leiterer (born February 8, 1902 in Borna ; † January 3, 1985 in Konstanz ) was a German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer , head of the Magdeburg State Police (head) office, employee in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and district administrator for the districts of Heiligenstadt and Osterburg .

Life

The son of a railway inspector attended grammar schools in Altenburg and Zwickau from 1911 to Easter 1920 . After completing a banking apprenticeship from 1920 to 1922, he first worked at various financial institutions. At the same time he studied law and economics at the University of Leipzig from the summer semester of 1922 . For economic reasons he had to interrupt his studies for a few semesters between 1923 and 1926 in order to earn the money to continue his studies. In June 1927 he passed the first state examination and in November 1930 the second state examination. From September 1927 to March 1936, Leiterer worked as a trainee lawyer, court and government assessor as well as government councilor at various local courts or administrative authorities in Saxony, and since 1934 also in the police department. His doctorate as Dr. jur. he graduated from the University of Leipzig in 1932.

Previously, Leiterer had joined the NSDAP (membership number 529.205) on May 1, 1931, the SA on August 1, 1931 and, after leaving on December 17, 1934, the SS (membership number 107.333) two days later. In the latter he was promoted to Untersturmführer in 1936, Obersturmführer in 1937 and Obersturmbannführer in 1938. When he transferred from the internal administrative service of Saxony to the Gestapo , from March 1936 to September 1941, Leiterer was head of the state police station (from January 1937 state police control center) Magdeburg .

Leiterer succeeded in evading being assigned to a task force of the Security Police and the SD in the Soviet Union by being transferred to internal administration. On August 21, 1941, the Reich Ministry of the Interior appointed him acting district administrator for the district of Heiligenstadt ( administrative district of Erfurt ). Before he finally got the position in Heiligenstadt, Leiterer was released from the provisional administration of the district office in January 1943 and returned to the security police and security service with effect from February 1, 1943. Until March 1944 he worked in Office I (Personnel) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). Then Leiterer was reassigned to the internal administration and came back to the province of Saxony , this time since March 1944 as a provisional, from November 1944 as the final district administrator of the Osterburg district ( administrative district Magdeburg ).

At the end of the war in 1945, Leiterer was arrested and interned in the British internment camp Staumühle near Paderborn. With the help of the church, he succeeded in 1949 to be acquitted of the indictment of membership of the Secret State Police (Gestapo) by the Bielefeld verdict court . Former comrades from the RSHA gave him the position of legal counsel in a Diakonie institution in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In July 1956, he was reinstated in the judiciary as an assistant judge in Schleswig , before the Schleswig-Holstein Administrative Court finally took him over as judge a year later. In 1964 he retired and his years of service with the Secret State Police were included in his pension calculation.

Works

• The enforceability of arbitral awards , dissertation, Leipzig 1932

literature

• Alexander Sperk : The state police (head) office in Magdeburg, its leaders and the smashing of the KPD . In: Police & History. Independent interdisciplinary journal for police history , 1/2009, Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, ISSN  1865-7354 , pp. 9-10.