Albert Urmes

Albert Theodor Urmes (born September 25, 1910 in Trier , † September 7, 1985 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and journalist.

Live and act

Albert Urmes was the son of the Public Prosecutor's Office Secretary Johann Baptist Urmes and his wife Josephine, nee Knappstein. After graduating from high school , Albert Urmes studied in Bonn and Munich . During his studies, he began to get involved in the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) in Bonn and Munich . He joined the party itself in December 1928 ( membership number 123.368). After graduation, he became a full-time official in the party apparatus of the Nazi party, where he in Gau Koblenz-Trier from 1931 as Gauredner worked as Gauabteilungsleiter and from October 1933 to early January 1935th He was then head of the Gau Press Office and from the beginning of April 1937 headed the Reich Propaganda Office as Gau Propaganda Head. In addition, from April 1937 he was district chairman of the Nazi cultural community in the local Gau and from April 1940 until the end of the war in 1945 he was President of the Cultural Association in the Gau Moselland . He was appointed councilor of the city of Koblenz in 1939.

He ran unsuccessfully for the 1938 Reichstag election. On September 29, 1941, Urmes entered the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement for Robert Claussen , who was killed in the war and to which he was a member of the Koblenz-Trier constituency until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945.

After the beginning of the Second World War he did military service from late November 1939 to early August 1942. From 1940 onwards, Urmes held leading positions in the NSDAP party administration in occupied Luxembourg : for example, he held office as state cultural warden for Luxembourg, as district director and Gau propaganda leader of the party.

After the end of the war he lived under the pseudonym Franz-Josef Meyer . He was finally arrested and transferred to the Luxembourg basic prison in October 1946. On December 3, 1949, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Luxembourg War Crimes Court. It can be assumed that the prison sentence was compensated by the pre-trial detention. Urmes withdrew into private life after his release from prison. Professionally he worked for the company of Herbert Lucht and his widow, who had become Werner Naumann's lover . Urmes and Naumann were friends. According to the British secret service, Urmes belonged to Werner Naumann's network of former National Socialists in the early 1950s . He was one of the founders of the aid community for those damaged by denazization . The aim of this association, initiated by the parliamentary journalist Gerd Walleiser, was to supplement the Basic Law with the passage “No German may be induced to fill out a political questionnaire”. In a letter dated March 1, 1983, he gave information about his political activities.

literature

Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Entry on Albert Urmes in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

^ Paul Weber: History of Luxembourg in World War II. Victor Buchverlag, Luxembourg 1948, p. 96.
^ Thoughts on propaganda work in Luxembourg by Gau propaganda leader Albert Urmes. In: Nationalblatt . dated August 1, 1941.
^ Entry Urmes, Albert Theodor / 1910-1985 in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
↑ Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann Affair , dissertation at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin, November 2012., pp. 26f., 28
^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2007, p. 637.
^ Concave mirror ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Der Spiegel , issue 21 of May 23, 1951
↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär (ed.): The German resistance against Hitler. Perception and valuation in Europe and the USA . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-13146-0 , p. 77.

personal data
SURNAME	Urmes, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Urmes, Albert Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	trier
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1985
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Paul Weber: History of Luxembourg in World War II. Victor Buchverlag, Luxembourg 1948, p. 96.

[2] Thoughts on propaganda work in Luxembourg by Gau propaganda leader Albert Urmes. In: Nationalblatt . dated August 1, 1941.

[3] Entry Urmes, Albert Theodor / 1910-1985 in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

[4] Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann Affair , dissertation at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin, November 2012., pp. 26f., 28

[5] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2007, p. 637.

[6] Concave mirror ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Der Spiegel , issue 21 of May 23, 1951

[7] Gerd R. Ueberschär (ed.): The German resistance against Hitler. Perception and valuation in Europe and the USA . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-13146-0 , p. 77.