Gerhard Bommel

Gerhard Bommel (born September 6, 1902 in Zeitz ; † December 18, 1966 Duisburg ) was a German lawyer , district president and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS brigade leader .

Life

After primary school, Bommel attended the Latina of the Francke Foundations in Halle ad Saale from 1912 and finished his school career in spring 1921 with the Abitur . During his school days in 1919 he was active as a forest walker in the resident army in Halle and from March 1920 served as a volunteer with the Reichswehr Brigade 16. After graduating from high school, he studied law and political science at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1922 he became active in the Corps Normannia-Halle . He passed the two state exams in July 1924 and December 1927.

He then worked as a court assessor in Magdeburg . As part of a leave of absence, he switched to church service. He worked for the consistory in Münster , Magdeburg and from the end of December 1929 to mid-July 1933 again in Münster. In mid-November 1932 he was appointed consistorial councilor. In the Weimar Republic , Bommel belonged to the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten from 1925 to 1928 , and to the German People's Party from 1930 to 1931 . Before 1933, Bommel joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 1.053.490). Afterwards he worked for the NSDAP as administrator of the local group Münster-Nord-West. At the end of February 1932 he became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 49.964) and rose to become SS Brigadführer . For the SS, he worked volunteer as a legal advisor at the SS-section XVII (Munster). In Münster he was city ​​councilor and parliamentary group leader of the NSDAP and from 1934 councilor . On December 21, 1933 he said:

“We are at the end of our meeting today and, with today's meeting, at the end of a historical period for Münster. […] Today's city council meeting is […] the last in Münster. There will no longer be a city council meeting in the earlier sense; because the National Socialist state will exist forever. "

- Gerhard Bommel

From mid-July 1933 to the end of January 1936 he worked as a regional councilor in the administration of the Provincial Association of the Province of Westphalia and then until the beginning of April 1943 in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . Initially he worked in RMI as general Speaker, rose 1,937 to Ministerial and 1941 Ministerialdirigenten on. In Berlin he was a part-time speaker for the local Gaupropaganda Office and worked for the SS supply and welfare office. During the Second World War he became a member of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences in Brussels and was a member of the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS and the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity from January 1940 to July 1943 .

From the beginning of April 1943 he was initially provisional and from September 1943 officially regional president in the Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria with his official seat in Regensburg . At the same time, he managed the authority of the Reich Defense Commissioner for the Reich Defense District Gau Bayreuth .

After the war Bommel was dismissed in June 1945 from the Office and from November 1947 to January 1948 in custody taken. On February 19, 1948, he was acquitted of the charge of intentional homicide by the Weiden Regional Court ; the verdict was overturned by the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court on November 2, 1948. After a court proceedings in Regensburg, he was denazified as a fellow traveler on November 16, 1948 . a. due to exonerating statements by his former subordinate and successor in the office of the District President Franz Wein and the former Lord Mayor of Straubing Otto Höchtl . Bommel was co-author of a commentary on the Criminal Code . At the end of August 1952 he took over the post of legal advisor at a company in the coal and steel industry and from January 1956 worked as a lawyer. He is said to have died after an "accident".

Bommel's SS ranks
date	rank
June 1935	SS-Untersturmführer
September 1936	SS-Obersturmführer
April 1938	SS-Hauptsturmführer
January 1939	SS-Sturmbannführer
April 1942	SS-Obersturmbannführer
June 1943	SS standard leader
June 1943	SS-Oberführer
November 1944	SS Brigade Leader

literature

• Annemarie Liebler: In the home country of Raute and Panther: History of the government of Lower Bavaria - Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8316-0836-2 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Bommel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joachim Lilla : Bommel, Gerhard, in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945 , URL: < http://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/bommel-gerhard > ( accessed on February 8, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 22 , 339
2. ↑ quoted in: Christoph Schmidt: National Socialist Cultural Policy in the Gau Westfalen-Nord . Paderborn, 2006, p. 260
3. ↑ Joachim Lilla: Bommel, Gerhard, in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria 1918 to 1945 .
4. ^ Annemarie Liebler: In the home country of Raute and Panther: History of the Government of Niederbayern , Munich 2008, pp. 133-134.
5. ^ SS ranks according to: Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. , Münster 2004