Alfred Gille

Alfred Gille (born September 15, 1901 in Insterburg / East Prussia , † February 18, 1971 in Rheinbach ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE ) and lawyer.

Life and work

Alfred Gille, the evangelical was attended through high school in 1920, the grammar school in Insterburg and then graduated in Königsberg and Munich to study law , graduating in 1923 with a clerkship exams. In 1920 he joined the Alemannia Königsberg fraternity . In 1927 he became an assessor at the Koenigsberg District Court and received his doctorate in law the following year with the thesis "The nature and consequences of lis pendens" in criminal proceedings. In the same year, at the age of 27, he was elected mayor of Lötzen , making him the youngest mayor in East Prussia.

In 1933 Gille joined the SA (last rank: squad leader). After the four-year ban on admission was relaxed , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 ( membership number 6.019.687), of which he was part of the East Prussian Gauleitung . Gille was an assessor at the People's Court .

During the Second World War, Gille was initially an artillery officer. In October 1941 he came to the Cracow front control center as a war administrator. In the summer of 1942 he was first city commissioner of the military administration, then from November 1942 to October 1943, after formal discharge from the armed forces, he was regional commissioner for the Zaporozhye city district in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine . In this function he was involved in the deportation of thousands of forced laborers to the German Reich and in the administrative measures that were taken when the Wehrmacht withdrew in autumn 1943 and which accepted the destruction of the city and the death of many residents. After Gille was in charge of handling the administrative apparatus of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine from November 1943 to March 1944, he served as the district commissioner for the Novogrodek district in the general district of Belarus from March to July 1944 , before returning to the General District of Belarus from July 1944 to the end of the war Wehrmacht was used as an orderly officer of the artillery regiment 1711. From 1945 to 1948 Gille was in Soviet captivity and then came to Lübeck as a displaced person. As chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein regional association of expellees, he signed the charter of German expellees . From 1950 he was a lawyer, from 1952 also a notary in Lübeck .

Gille was a co-founder of the Neue Lübeck Norddeutsche Baugenossenschaft eG . The cooperative was founded on November 14, 1949 with the aim of providing living space in Lübeck and later in northern Germany, in particular for those who have been displaced and refugees. He was a member of the supervisory board of this cooperative from 1949 until his death in 1971 as chairman.

In 1950 Gille was one of the founders of the GB / BHE, of which he was state chairman in Schleswig-Holstein until 1962. After the union of the GB / BHE with the DP in 1961, he was a member of the national board of the GDP . From 1950 to October 27, 1954, Gille was a member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein , where he also temporarily led the BHE parliamentary group. From 1950 to August 6, 1954 he was chairman of the parliament's interior committee. In 1953 he was elected to the German Bundestag , where he was deputy parliamentary group leader. From 1953 to December 31, 1955 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for internal administration. Public controversy sparked his warning “of a dramatization of the neo-Nazi danger”.

From 1952 to 1966 Gille was the spokesman (federal chairman) of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft and also played a leading role in the Association of Expellees (BdV). In the 1950s he was chairman of the regional association of expellees in Schleswig-Holstein. For health reasons, he resigned from all offices in 1966.

On September 11, 1968, Gille was awarded the First Class Cross of Merit of the Federal Cross of Merit . He was married and had one child.

MP

From 1950 to October 27, 1954, Gille was a member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein, where he also led the BHE parliamentary group until 1954. from 1950 to August 6, 1954 he was chairman of the interior committee of the state parliament and member of the state police advisory board.

In 1953 he was also elected to the German Bundestag , where he held the office of deputy parliamentary group leader. From 1953 to December 31, 1955 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for internal administration.

After leaving the Bundestag, Gille was re-elected to the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag for four years in 1958, where he was parliamentary group leader and chairman of the committee for expellees.

Public offices

From 1928 to 1942 Gille was the full-time mayor of the city of Lötzen in East Prussia.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 130-131.
Michael Schwartz : Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the “Third Reich.” Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71626-9 ( review (PDF; 101 kB) in the Archives for Social History , April 18, 2013) - ( books. google.de from it short biography from p. 559).

Web links

Literature by and about Alfred Gille in the catalog of the German National Library
Alfred Gille at the VVN-BdA
Alfred Gille in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Michael Kloth, Marcel Rosenbach and Klaus Wiegrefe : Associations. Indulgent judgment. In: Der Spiegel . February 22, 2010, p. 40.
↑ Gille, Alfred, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 373 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthansia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished. 2nd edition, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7269-9 , p. 175.
↑ Michael Schwartz: Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the “Third Reich”. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 404, p. 528 and 559 f.
↑ Michael Schwartz: Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the “Third Reich”. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 559 f.
^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 130-131, here: p. 131.

personal data
SURNAME	Gille, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (GB / BHE), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Insterburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	18th February 1971
Place of death	Rheinbach

[1] Hans-Michael Kloth, Marcel Rosenbach and Klaus Wiegrefe : Associations. Indulgent judgment. In: Der Spiegel . February 22, 2010, p. 40.

[2] Gille, Alfred, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 373 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

[3] Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthansia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished. 2nd edition, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7269-9 , p. 175.

[4] Michael Schwartz: Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the “Third Reich”. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 404, p. 528 and 559 f.

[5] Michael Schwartz: Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the “Third Reich”. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 559 f.

[6] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 130-131, here: p. 131.