Gerhard Scheffler
Gerhard Scheffler (born January 14, 1894 in Breslau , † July 14, 1977 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler ) was a German politician of the NSDAP , mayor of the annexed Poznan during World War II and, after 1945, a German social politician .
Life
From 1914 to 1918 Scheffler took part in World War I as a soldier . After 1918 he studied law and received his doctorate in 1922. In 1924 he entered the administrative service as a lawyer and worked in the district office in Leer (East Frisia) in 1925/26 , then from 1926 to 1931 with the government in Münster . From 1931 to May 1933 he was district administrator in the Grafschaft Bentheim district .
In 1933 he became a senior councilor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . Since 1935 he was a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare , since 1940 he was also a member of the NSDAP. Shortly after the beginning of the Second World War, he was appointed city commissioner on September 14, 1939 and acting lord mayor of the occupied and annexed Polish city of Posen in the new Warthegau on October 26, 1939 under Gauführer Arthur Greiser . On August 3, 1940, the office was then officially awarded to him for the planned duration of 12 years. Its task should be to force the forcible Germanization of the predominantly Polish-inhabited capital of the Reichsgau Wartheland . At the end of the war, Scheffler managed to flee west.
After 1945 Scheffler assumed a camouflage existence under the name Otto Jungfer for some time before he was active in the state service in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1949 . In 1950 he moved again to the Federal Ministry of the Interior . From 1950–1952 he headed Section V 2 ( aid to the aftermath of war, equalization of burdens , free welfare, social foreign aid), 1952–1955 the sub-department VB (social affairs), as successor to Wilhelm Kitz from 1955 to 1958 the social department V. His successor was Johannes Duntze . From 1957 to 1965 he was a member of the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare (DV) and from 1958 to 1970 a member of the board of the German Parity Welfare Association . In 1957, Scheffler put the term “ social assistance ”, which the SPD preferred, instead of the older term “ welfare ” through when he was largely involved in drafting the Federal Social Assistance Act .
Fonts
- (Ed.): Chronicle of the district capital Posen , Berlin, Curt Hermann Weise Verlag, 1941
- with Hermann Neumeyer: A book from Poznan. Poznan 1944.
- Heritage, path and destination. With 12 cockroach drawings by Georg Fritz. Poznan 1944.
literature
- Günther Schulz , Hans Günter Hockerts u. a. (Ed.): History of social policy in Germany since 1945 , Vol. 3 1949–1957, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005 ISBN 978-3789073175
- Matthias Willing: The Preservation Act (1918-1967). A legal historical study on the history of German welfare. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-16-148204-2 , p. 260.
- Michael Heisig: Scheffler, Gerhard , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 512f.
Web links
- List of heads of cities in Poznan
- Federal Archives, Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government, Die Ministerialbeamten
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheffler, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of Posen (1939–1945) and social politician in the Federal Republic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1977 |
| Place of death | Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler |