Albert Rodegerdts

Albert Rodegerdts (born September 23, 1898 in Belum ; † February 11, 1973 Münster in Westphalia ) was district leader in Cuxhaven and Uelzen from 1939 to 1941 , regional training manager and head of the Gaustabsamtsamt of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in Lower Saxony. At the end of the Second World War he was the fortress commander of Cuxhaven.

biography

Rodegerdts was a student at the secondary school in Hanover and put 1915 Notabitur from. He then studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg . Since the older brother had died in World War I , he gave up his studies after the first semester and returned to his parents' farm. Then he was a soldier until his leg after a war wound in the First World War was amputated. Albert Rodegerdts was married and had two children.

On October 1, 1930, Albert Rodegerdts joined the NSDAP. When the places Neuhaus / Oste and Otterndorf , where he was mayor from May 1, 1933 to November 1, 1936, were merged on October 1, 1932, he became an honorary district leader of the new Otterndorf district. The Gauleiter of East Hanover Otto Telschow appointed him on November 1, 1936 as a full-time district leader of Cuxhaven. In 1939 he went to Uelzen as district manager in exchange with Ernst Brändel . In May 1941 he was called up to Lüneburg as head of regional training in Hanover East . On July 1, 1942, he rose in the hierarchy of the NSDAP and was Head of the Gaustabsamtsamt until March 1945. He was then fortress commander of Cuxhaven until the end of the war on May 7, 1945.

After the end of World War II, Rodegerdts was arrested on May 17, 1945 and initially taken to the Sandbostel internment camp (formerly Stalag XB ) and then transferred to the Westertimke camp. There he was released on March 7, 1946, because after a medical examination he was judged not to be storable. On May 1, 1948, he was arrested again and charged. In the trial that opened on August 20, 1948, Rodegerdts was accused by witnesses of notorious breach of word, gross corruption and personal vindictiveness. In his judgment on November 25, 1948, it is stated that he had reported to the Gestapo about the political unreliability of individual pieces of information. Since he was classified as severely physically disabled, he received only a two-year prison term and the camp detention of about 14 months counted towards the sentence. In addition, he was given a probation period until April 1, 1952, which was issued on March 10, 1952 after the Benefeld- Bomlitz court had filed a petition for clemency.

literature

• Reimer Egge: The Path to Democracy Uelzen from 1945 to 1955, script for the exhibition from September 25 to October 15, 2004 in the Uelzen town hall. Available online: Exhibition script (PDF; 496 kB)
• Reimer Egge: Seizure of power on January 30, 1933. The press of the Allgemeine Zeitung der Lüneburger Heide (AZ) informed. January 2004, available online: Seizure of power (PDF; 287 kB)
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 299-300.