Alfred Brandt (District Administrator)

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Alfred Brandt (born May 18, 1895 in Walsee , Gnesen district ; † 1945 near Stolp ) was a German farmer and district administrator at the time of National Socialism . In German-occupied Poland Brandt served as District Chief operates.

Life

Brandt came from a large landowning family in the Gnesen district and began his school career at a humanistic grammar school . In high school he left school and completed an agricultural apprenticeship. As a war volunteer he took part in the First World War as a soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross First Class. After his discharge from the army , he joined a volunteer corps and in 1920 bought his own estate in Pomerania , after his parents' property was now in Poland . In the 1920s he belonged to the German National Freedom Movement and was a manager at the Eastern Border Guard .

The Nazi Party he joined in early October 1930 ( membership number at 314,432). He also became a member of the SA . In the Rummelsburg district he became district leader and district farmer leader. At the beginning of April 1933 Brandt became district administrator in the Rummelsburg district. At the beginning of August 1934 he was removed from this office and other posts by the Gauleiter Franz Schwede-Coburg because of financial irregularities. From then until the end of 1939 Brandt worked as an agricultural policy adviser for the NSDAP in five circles.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Brandt applied for a use in occupied Poland. He was not deployed in the former province of Posen , but in the General Government. On January 13, 1940, he became the district chief in Puławy in the Lublin district and held this position until July 1944. Brandt was considered a " Jew and Pole hater" who had Jews deported to the extermination camps . In September 1940 he set up a labor camp in a quarry in Kazimierz Dolny for Polish farmers who did not deliver their quota on time . "As early as February 1941, he suggested that young German farmers be settled in the Lublin district, expropriated Polish farmers, expelled them and leave some of them as farm workers."

In December 1944 Brandt was seconded to the Reichsgau Wartheland . He was sentenced to death at Stolp in 1945 by a Soviet military tribunal. Members of the Red Army carried out the sentence on the spot by shooting.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , short biographies on the enclosed CD, p. 67 there.
  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 .
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 94f.
  2. ↑ a b c Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 382.
  3. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 159.
  4. ↑ VEJ 4/168, p. 393. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  5. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study , Göttingen 2015, short biographies on the enclosed CD, there p. 67
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and district administrator under National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsee (Gnesen district) , Gnesen district
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Stumble