Gerhard Kessler (police officer)

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Gerhard Kessler (born November 25, 1903 in Memel ; † unknown, probably after 1974) was a German lawyer and police and Gestapo officer .

Live and act

After studying law in Königsberg , Kessler entered the civil service. During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia Königsberg fraternity in 1922 . He went through administrative training in Königsberg. In 1925 he was appointed trainee lawyer and in 1929, after passing the state examination, he was appointed government assessor . He submitted his dissertation at the University of Königsberg in 1928 and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD .

Kessler spent the first years of his career at various district offices and with the Commissioner for Eastern Aid in Stettin . After the establishment of the Secret State Police Office in 1933, Kessler was appointed to it and entrusted with the management of Department IV (DNVP, right-wing opposition). He was thus one of the twelve highest-ranking employees of the Gestapo headquarters in its early phase.

On December 1, 1933, Kessler, who had been a member of the NSDAP since December 1, 1932 ( membership number 1,404,082), was transferred to the government in Schneidemühl , where he worked as the head of the political department of the Stapo office there. Wilhelm Kube also proposed him as head of the same. In 1935 Kessler was promoted to government councilor and appointed district administrator in the district of Beeskow-Storkow . He later became district administrator in the Mährisch Schönberg district . He also took part in World War II .

After the war he lived in Hanover and in 1949 became managing director of the Lower Saxony Association of Cities .

Fonts

  • The owner's pick-up claim , 1928. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. 1983.
  • Horst Kliemann: Who is who in Germany , 1974, p. 830.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It is still listed in Who is Who from 1974, as well as in a reprint from 1990.
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 240.
  3. ^ Directory of the fraternity members of Hanover. Hanover 1958, No. 198.
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: after 1973