Alexander Landgrave

Alexander Landgraf (born May 20, 1906 in Lorsch ; † August 16, 1972 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer, Gestapo officer and SS leader.

Life

Landgraf was the son of a farmer and master baker. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Gießen from 1926 , which he completed in 1930 with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship, he passed the second state examination in law in December 1933.

Landgraf joined the NSDAP ( membership number 75.943) at the beginning of February 1928 . In his hometown he acted from 1928 to 1936 as a cultural warden and trainer for the party with the rank of head of office. In April 1937 he became a member of the SS (membership number 280.440) and in September 1942 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer . He was also a member of the SD .

From May 1934 he worked as a court assessor at the Darmstadt Police Department and at the beginning of February 1936 joined the Prussian Secret State Police . After a short informational activity in Münster and acting as head of the Osnabrück state police station , he headed the Wesermünde state police station from April 1936 . In July 1937 he was promoted to government councilor. From the beginning of September 1937 he headed the Stapo control center in Karlsruhe and from the beginning of April 1941 was a member of the staff of the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Strasbourg . At the beginning of February 1942 he was appointed to the senior government council. From February 1942 to September 1942 he worked for the Gestapo at BdS Ostland in Riga . In October 1942 Landgraf was entrusted with the management of the Gestapo in Münster and from autumn 1944 to March 1945 he was in command of the security police and SD for the Westphalia / North area.

After the end of the war, Landgraf worked as a casual worker until he got a job with the Seligenstadt district savings bank in 1953 . A homicide investigation initiated against him was discontinued in 1952, as was an arbitration chamber .

literature

• Michael Kißener , Joachim Scholtyseck (ed.): The leaders of the province. Nazi biographies from Baden and Württemberg , Karlsruhe contributions to the history of National Socialism, Vol. 2, 2nd edition study edition. 1999. ISBN 3-87940-679-0 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Michael Stolle: The Secret State Police in Baden. Personnel, organization, effect and aftermath of a regional prosecution authority in the Third Reich. UVK Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 978-3-89669-820-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Michael Stolle: The Secret State Police in Baden. Personnel, organization, effect and aftermath of a regional prosecution authority in the Third Reich. , Konstanz 2001, p. 358
2. ^ ^{A b c} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 355
3. ↑ Alexander Landgraf on www.dws-xip.pl
4. ↑ Michael Hensle: “Broadcasting Crimes ” before National Socialist Special Courts. A comparative study of judgment practice in the Reich capital Berlin and the southern Baden province (PDF; 2.3 MB). Diss. TU Berlin 2003, p. 221.