Alfred Spangenberg

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Alfred Spangenberg

Alfred Friedrich Bertram Spangenberg (born July 21, 1897 in Breslau ; † February 12, 1947 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending grammar school in Züllichau , Spangenberg took part in the First World War as a war volunteer with the Brandenburg Jäger Battalion No. 3 from 1914 after taking the emergency maturity test. During the war he was deployed on the Western Front , in Serbia (1915) and before Verdun (1916), among others . In March 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve . In April 1918 he was a company commander in the 471 infantry regiment as a result of an injury - his third in the war - in English captivity.

After his return home in October 1919, Spangenberg completed a banking apprenticeship. From 1922 to 1933 Spangenberg worked for the Kommerz- und Privatbank Berlin. From 1927 to 1930 Spangenberg acted as a labor judge, then from 1931 to 1933 as a state labor judge. On August 1, 1933, he was promoted to Reich Labor Judge.

On October 1, 1928, Spangenberg joined the NSDAP ( membership number 99.849). He became a member of the SA in 1931 and rose to the position of SA Standartenführer in this Nazi organization in 1942 .

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Spangenberg took on the duties of a Gauobmann of the German Labor Front in Gau Berlin. Since March 12, 1933, he was also a member of the Berlin city council, and on April 1, he became district manager of the NSBO in Berlin. Since 1937 he was a member of the Reich Chamber of Labor and headed the Berlin Chamber of Labor.

From November 12, 1933, Spangenberg also sat as a member of parliament for constituency 2 (Berlin West) in the National Socialist Reichstag , to which he belonged until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Spangenberg fell into Soviet captivity in the course of the Battle of Berlin and was assigned to the special camps Weesow and Landsberg / Warthe, and from January 1946 to the Buchenwald special camp. In December 1946 he was charged with war crimes in a Soviet military court, sentenced to death and executed in 1947.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 672.
personal data
SURNAME Spangenberg, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spangenberg, Alfred Friedrich Bertram (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1947