Alfred Spindler (lawyer)

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Alfred Spindler (born July 23, 1888 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † July 16, 1948 in Poland ) was a German lawyer and chief financial officer at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Spindler attended high school and finished his school career in 1906 with the Abitur . He studied law at the Eberhard Karls University and in 1906 became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . He received his doctorate as Dr. iur.

From 1915 to 1918 Spindler took part in the First World War as a war volunteer with the rank of officer and in 1919 participated in the suppression of the Spartacus uprising as a member of the “Greater Berlin” rifle regiment . He then joined the Reich Finance Administration and was promoted to government councilor in April 1920.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he was promoted to senior civil and tax office superintendent in early June 1933 and led from the beginning of May 1936 as Finance Minister, the Regional Finance Bureau Munich. Spindler, who had been a member of the DVP and DNVP between 1927 and 1933 , joined the SA in September 1933 and the NSDAP ( membership number 3,994,812) in early May 1937 .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Spindler headed the finance department from the beginning of December 1939 as Chief Finance President in the government of the Generalgouvernement . In this capacity, he was appointed Head of Department in March 1940 and then President of the Finance Department in the Government General. At the end of December 1941, Spindler's activity in the General Government ended. His successor as President of the Finance Department in the General Government was Hermann Senkowsky . Like the President of the Internal Administration Department, Eberhard Westerkamp, Spindler resigned from the government of the Generalgouvernement. The reasons lay in a speech given by Hans Frank , where on December 16, 1941, he spoke to high-ranking representatives of the Generalgouvernement about the impending mass murder of the Jews . According to Westerkamp's notes, Spindler said to him after the end of Frank's speech: “Still in the doorway among others, he spoke to me, dejected and not particularly quietly, with the words: Can you continue to work here under such circumstances, Mr. Westerkamp? That's just impossible ”.

Spindler returned to the German Reich and became finance and chief finance president in the state tax office in Unterweser and Weser-Ems. After the end of the war, Spindler was arrested and extradited to Poland, where he died in custody.

literature

  • Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129 , 682
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1948 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 953f.
  3. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 , p. 214
  4. ^ Fritz Peters: Bremen between 1933 and 1945. Eine Chronik , Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86-741-373-2 , p. 221.
  5. ↑ Theodor Spitta , Ursula Büttner , Angelika Voss-Louis : New beginning on rubble: The diaries of Bremen mayor Theodor Spitta 1945-1947 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55938-9 , p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Spindler, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1948
Place of death Poland