Alfred Richter (politician, July 1895)

Alfred Friedrich Carl Wilhelm Richter (* July 12, 1895 in Wismar ; † November 12, 1981 in Oldenburg ) was a police officer, economic advisor, National Socialist Hamburg senator and, after the Second World War, chairman of the German party in Oldenburg and councilor in the Oldenburg city council.

Life

Alfred Richter attended the Realgymnasium from 1901 to 1914 . In 1920 he switched from the army to the Hamburg police service. He joined the NSDAP as early as 1923 . From 1923 to 1930 he studied law; During this time he became a member of the German Landsmannschaft . In 1930 he was dismissed from the police force with the rank of lieutenant police officer because of Nazi inflammatory speeches. From 1930 to 1933 he was the syndic of the Hamburg import associations.

From 1930 - in that year he also rejoined the NSDAP - he was the full-time managing director of the NSDAP in Hamburg. In 1931 Richter was elected to the Hamburg parliament for the NSDAP , to which he belonged until 1933. SA-Standartenführer Richter was appointed Reich Commissioner and Police Officer for Hamburg by Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick on the evening of March 5, 1933 after the last free Reichstag election . Paul de Chapeaurouge ( DVP ), who had been in office since March 3, 1933, resigned on March 6. On the same evening, SA units occupied the Hamburg city hall . With this in mind, the “bourgeois” parties State Party , DNVP and DVP agreed with the NSDAP on a joint electoral list.

From 1933 to 1936 he was a judge in the NS-Altherrenbund (last association leader), from 1933 to 1939 in the Reichs Luftschutzbund (last Landesgruppenführer) and from 1936 to 1939 in the Reichsbund für physical exercises (last Gausportführer).

On March 8, 1933, Richter was confirmed as police chief and interior senator by the Hamburg city council and thus belonged to the newly elected senate under the first mayor Carl Vincent Krogmann ; As a police officer, he cleaned up the civil servants under his control according to National Socialist ideas and persecuted political opponents (between March and July 1933, under his responsibility, almost 2,000 people were arrested in Hamburg during 850 house searches - the wave of arrests led to the establishment of the Wittmoor concentration camp, which was under the police force ). Richter remained responsible for the interior department until the Senate was dissolved in April 1938. In October 1933, as part of a downsizing of the Senate, the health department was subordinated to Friedrich Ofterdinger Richter. On November 24, 1933, Richter lost responsibility for the Hamburg State Police (the Hamburg political police ) to Heinrich Himmler . With the decree of the Führer and Reich Chancellor of June 17, 1936 , the remaining Hamburg police units were also subordinated to the Reich and Richter's sphere of influence was withdrawn. From 1938 Richter was an assistant to the Hamburg internal administration.

Richter also played an important role in Hamburg's equestrian sport. He was given the management of the newly created “State Management for Equestrian Sports and Horse Breeding” on September 29, 1933. The purpose of the state management, which is subordinate to the internal administration, was to “promote equestrian sports and breeding in the area of ​​the state of Hamburg”. The state management should act as a superordinate institution for the Hamburg equestrian clubs, which thus decisively decided on the development of the Hamburg equestrian sport. Alfred Richter liquidated or merged economically desolate riding clubs or set himself up as chairman of the board. His position in equestrian sport was strengthened by another office carried out by Alfred Richter, that of the management of the SA group Hansa and the later SA equestrian standard 12.

When the Second World War broke out , Richter was drafted into the Wehrmacht . There he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and the position of regimental commander. From 1939 to 1941 he was in service with Reserve Flak Department 263 in France . From 1941 to 1942 he was in the Soviet Union (II./Flak 4 motorized). From 1943 to 1944 he was with Luftgau XI (Hamburg) and from 1944 to 1945 on the western and eastern front (Flak Regiment 61 motorized). He was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. In the SA, Richter was promoted to SA group leader on April 20, 1943.

Richter was interned from May 1945 to December 1947. In 1949 he was denazified by the Denazification Main Committee of the City of Oldenburg due to his internment and good repute in Category IV; he was only denied the right to stand as a candidate. The Hamburg Central Committee for the Elimination of National Socialists submitted further incriminating material. However, there was only a downgrade to the rank of government councilor on May 4, 1950. In early April 1952 he was elected deputy state chairman of the German party in Hamburg. This led to a controversy within the national association. Six of the nine DP MPs in the Hamburg Parliament ( Erwin Jacobi , Wilhelm Ziegeler , Werner Luckow , Gerhard Schubert , Fritz Starck and Friedrich Witt ) declared that they would work with Richter “because of their political function and responsibility in earlier times” reject. He left Hamburg a short time later and from 1952 to 1961 was a councilor in the Oldenburg city council for the German party and at the same time its state chairman in Oldenburg. In the 3rd electoral term he was a successor from October 18, 1958 to May 5, 1959 as a member of the DP / CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament .

literature

• Nele Maya Fahnenbruck: "... rides for Germany". Equestrian Sport and Politics under National Socialism . Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7307-0036-5 (Dissertation Universität Hamburg 2013, 400 pages)
• Herbert Diercks : Documentation town house. The Hamburg police under National Socialism. Texts, photos, documents , Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Hamburg 2012, DNB 1019393483 p. 19 (based on the texts and a selection of photos and documents from the touring exhibition Documentation, which was presented for the first time from January 19 to February 10, 2012 in the Hamburg City Hall Stadthaus. The Hamburg Police under National Socialism ).
• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, pp. 21, 39 f., 64, 67 f., 98 f., 194 f., DNB 1023715430 ( full text online PDF, free of charge, 213 p., 869 kB).
• Erwin B. Boldt: The reform that was given away: the reconstruction of the Hamburg police force between Weimar tradition and the requirements of the British occupying power 1945 - 1955 (= publications of the Hamburg working group for regional history HAR , volume 12), Lit, Münster et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8258 -5945-2 (Dissertation University of Hamburg, Faculty of Philosophy and History, 2001, XV, 391 pages, illustrations).
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 310, DNB 949017256 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nele Maya Fahnenbruck: "... rides for Germany". Equestrian Sport and Politics under National Socialism. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2013, p. 184, ISBN 978-3-7307-0036-5 (Dissertation Universität Hamburg 2013, 400 p.)
2. ^ "Conflict in the German Party" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of April 3, 1952, accessed on September 24, 2018.