Alfred Preuss

Alfred Preuss

Alfred Preuss (born March 26, 1887 in Rothfließ ; † February 1, 1947 ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

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Preuss attended elementary school in Rothfließ, then middle and high school in Allenstein . Subsequently, in 1904, he took up the middle post office career. In the following years Preuss worked as a senior postal secretary in Königsberg .

From 1909 to 1910 Preuss belonged to the 41st Infantry Regiment. From August 2, 1914, Preuss took part in the First World War as a reserve officer in Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 18 . As a result of an injury and illness, Preuss was again requested by the postal administration in 1916 and returned to his old position.

In 1923 Preuss became the third chairman of the German Postal Union , Königsberg district association. At this time he also joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

In the general election of July 1932, Preuss was 1 (East Prussia) as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency in the Reichstag voted, where he remained until the collapse of the 1945th As a member of parliament, he approved the Enabling Act in 1933 . In 1933 he was briefly a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia .

During the Nazi era , Preuss was head of the Gauamt for officials of the NSDAP in East Prussia . In 1943 he became president of the Reichspostdirektion Gumbinnen.

According to the database of the Volksbund Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Preuss died on February 1, 1947. His grave is on the war cemetery in Hövelhof (final grave, grave 68).

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional membership directory of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 44, digitized .

Web links

• Alfred Preuss in the database of members of the Reichstag