Georg Röhrig

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Georg Röhrig (born July 3, 1886 in Lützelstein , Lower Alsace , † March 1969 ) was a German administrative lawyer and municipal official .

Life

As the son of District Court Councilor Karl Röhrig , Röhrig attended grammar school in Buchsweiler , Lower Alsace . After graduating from high school , he served as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Upper Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 15 in 1904/05 . At the same time he began to study law at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . On October 18, 1904, he became a chestnut in the Corps Palaio-Alsatia . After he had proven himself as a sub-senior and chestnut major in the winter semester of 1905/06 , he had to be dismissed on May 19, 1906 for study purposes without a band. He moved to the University of Grenoble , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He eventually returned to Strasbourg and was active again from October 24, 1907. On February 19, 1909, he passed the First State Examination in law and entered the judicial administration of Alsace-Lorraine. After passing the Great State Examination, he became a government assessor on September 8, 1913 .

First World War

Since February 19, 1910 Lieutenant d. R. , he went to the First World War with his regiment . He was an orderly officer with the staff of the 42nd Field Artillery Brigade and adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 131 . In October 1915 he was transferred to the staff of the 1st Upper Alsace Field Artillery Regiment No. 15 as an orderly officer and promoted to first lieutenant in May . In August 1916 he led the 3rd battery of his regiment . From May 1918 until the end of the war he was with Field Artillery Regiment No. 267.

Prussia

Since April 26, 1917 he was government official of the internal administration of the Reichslande. When they were lost (in the Versailles Peace Treaty), Röhrig moved to the Free State of Prussia on March 20, 1919 . As a government assessor at the district office of Beuthen , he experienced the uprisings in Upper Silesia . Since December 23, 1921 , he was a member of the government , and on July 15, 1922, he was transferred to the High Presidium of the Upper Silesia Province in Opole . On January 1, 1923, he came to the government in Erfurt as a councilor . There he joined the Masonic Lodge Carl to the Three Eagles in 1924 , which is why several investigations were made against him during the Nazi era . On August 6, 1925, he was first provisional and on January 1, 1926 officially District Administrator in the Bad Liebenwerda district , Province of Saxony . From 1924 to 1931 he was a member of the DVP . In 1926 he married Luise Wahnschaffe from Westenburg. In the same year a daughter was born.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a supporting member of the SS in July 1933 and joined the SA on November 5, 1933 . The NSDAP he was not a member.

With the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was department commander of a front artillery department. In the course of the western campaign , he moved to the military administration in German-occupied France . From April 1941 he commanded Field Command 822 in Pomerania and was still active in the local war administration after the attack on the Soviet Union . In April 1942 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. At the beginning of November 1942 he was released from military service and returned to the district administrator post in Liebenwerda, which he held until 1945.

In 1945 he was deposed from his position and moved to Hildesheim .

Awards

literature

  • Hermann-Josef Rupieper, Alexander Sperk (Ed.): The situation reports of the secret state police for the province of Saxony 1933 to 1936 . Volume 2: Merseburg administrative region . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, p. 234f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d personnel records of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 28 , 101.
  3. ↑ Liebenwerda district (territorial.de)
  4. ↑ a b c d Hermann-Josef Rupieper, Alexander Sperk (ed.): The situation reports of the secret state police for the province of Saxony 1933 to 1936 . Volume 2: Merseburg administrative region . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, p. 234f.
personal data
SURNAME Röhrig, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Lützelstein , Lower Alsace
DATE OF DEATH March 1969