Erich Keßler

Erich Hermann Ernst Keßler (born July 15, 1899 in Memel , German Reich ; † February 7, 1989 ) was a German ministerial official.

Life

Kessler studied law at the University of Königsberg . From 1933 he was employed in the police headquarters of Recklinghausen and Wuppertal and then in the high presidium of Königsberg i. Pr. As a police officer. From 1934 to 1936 he held the position of Vice President of the Government of Gumbinnen . He was district administrator in the Stormarn district (1937–1940) and represented in the Eiderstedt district (1938–1939) and in the Kattowitz district (1943).

Keßler served as government vice-president in Katowice, which was annexed by the Germans, from October 21, 1943 to September 1944. The Auschwitz extermination camp and the Będzin forced ghetto were two places of German mass murder of Jews in the administrative district.

From 1933 Kessler was a member of the SA with the rank of Oberscharführer .

From 1944 to 1945 he worked for the Reich Ministry of the Interior , 1948 to 1949 at the Audit Office of the German Reich - British Zone, 1949 to 1964 BMI , there head of subdivision IB and (from 1953) IC (administration, administrative jurisdiction, from 1952 also: local government) ).

Web links

Federal Archives
Stella Krekeler: Erich Keßler and the networks of the founding staff , at BMI

Individual evidence

^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 305 .
^ Center for Contemporary Historical Research: BMI / MdI - Dealing with National Socialism in the two German Interior Ministries 1949 - 1970 , biography Erich Keßler (exhibition). 2020, accessed June 5, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kessler, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Keßler, Erich Hermann Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Memel , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1989

[1] Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 305 .

[2] Center for Contemporary Historical Research: BMI / MdI - Dealing with National Socialism in the two German Interior Ministries 1949 - 1970 , biography Erich Keßler (exhibition). 2020, accessed June 5, 2020 .