Alois Vogels

Alois Vogels (born June 4, 1887 in Langenberg ; † September 22, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) was a German administrative lawyer and district administrator .

Life

After graduating from high school in Siegburg in 1905, Alois Vogels studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Munich University . In 1908 he became a court trainee and received his doctorate on February 10, 1911 with the dissertation “The constitutional position of the Federal Council plenipotentiary”. In 1912 he joined the Center Party and in November became a court assessor at the Gerresheim district court . In April 1915, he switched to trial employment with the Gumbinnen district government . In March 1920 he was appointed unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and in January 1921 a councilor. He was entrusted with the provisional administration of the Büren District Office in May 1921. On November 1, 1921, he was finally appointed district administrator of the Büren district . On February 9, 1925, Vogels was entrusted with the representation of the Grevenbroich District Office and the following month he was acting District Administrator. His final appointment as district administrator of the Grevenbroich district was on July 21, 1925. After a 4-year term in office, he was temporarily retired on July 31, 1929 because of the local reorganization . In October 1929 he moved to the Aachen government and in November 1929 was entrusted with the provisional administration of the Steinfurt district office. In April 1930 he was definitely district administrator for the Steinfurt district . On April 6, 1933, he was put back into temporary retirement, and in mid-1933 he was transferred to the Düsseldorf district government and from November 1, 1933 a member of the Düsseldorf Oberversicherungsamt. After the war, from mid-1945 he was employed as a personnel officer at the Higher Presidium of Westphalia and on August 31, 1945, he was also the district administrator of the Steinfurt district as chief government director. Following the reorganization of the administration by the British military government , Vogels became senior district director of the Steinfurt district in the spring of 1946 . In November 1946 he switched to the Ministry of the Interior in Düsseldorf as a ministerial director (head of the “Constitution and Administration” department) . On December 31, 1952, Vogels retired.

Web links

• Alois Vogels in: Westphalian history.
• Portrait of Alois Vogels in: District of Brauweiler.