Gerhard von Breitenbach
Gerhard von Breitenbach (born May 7, 1886 in Altona as Gerhard Breitenbach ; † June 20, 1974 in Munich ) was a politician of the Center Party and district administrator of the Limburg district .
Life
Gerhard Breitenbach was born on May 7, 1886 in Altona. His parents were Paul von Breitenbach and his wife Christina Johanna Elvira von Breitenbach. His father was accepted into the hereditary nobility as the Prussian Minister of Public Works in 1909 , and the family has had the addition of 'from' in their name ever since.
Gerhard von Breitenbach attended high schools in Hamburg , Mainz , Cologne and Quakenbrück . In 1907/1908 he did voluntary military service , because he finished with the rank of first lieutenant in the reserve . He then began studying law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel . He had been a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg since 1907 . He completed his legal preparatory service at the Groß-Lichterfelde Regional Court near Berlin in January 1916 with a distinction.
During the First World War he was employed in the civil administration of the General Government of Belgium . After his discharge from the army in 1918, he accepted a position as a government assessor in the Koblenz district . He worked in various departments of the Prussian administration. From October 25, 1923 to October 8, 1924 he had to leave Koblenz after the French occupation of the Rhineland . Breitenbach temporarily moved to Hanover .
On December 11, 1924 von Breitenbach took over the position of provisional district administrator for the Limburg district . He was officially elected by the district council on March 26, 1925. On April 18, 1925, Breitenbach finally relocated from Hanover to Limburg an der Lahn .
He took office during an economic boom. One of the first major official acts of Breitenbach was the construction of the county home for all authorities of the district administration 1925/1926. During his work as district administrator, at the time of the Weimar Republic , Gerhard von Breitenbach was able to rely on a coalition of the majority party Zentrum and the business party . He had a trusting relationship with the chairman of the Social Democratic Party in the district and mayor of Niederselters, Adam Graef.
The economic upswing ended with the onset of the global economic crisis . The district administration under von Breitenbach promoted projects of the voluntary labor service for road construction . During this time, the road from Niederselters to Eisenbach and from Lahr to Heckholzhausen were built. As in the rest of Germany, there was also a radicalization between the National Socialists and Communists in the Limburg district, whom von Breitenbach hoped to remedy through increased police operations.
After taking power in 1933, local elections were held on March 12, 1933 . These did not produce the results intended by the NSdAP everywhere in the district . Von Breitenbach was forced by the Wiesbaden government president Werner Zschintzsch to depose the mayors of Eisenbach , Erbach , Hausen , Niederbruch , Niederselters , Oberbruch and Schwickershausen . He hesitated until March 30, 1933 to issue the necessary documents, as this was not possible due to the current legal situation in the Free State of Prussia .
The decision-making authority in the district was increasingly transferred from the district administrator to the party. In order to be able to keep his office, von Breitenbach applied for membership in the NSdAP on April 29, 1933, but this was rejected. In the summer of 1934, District President Werner Zschintsch commissioned the Limburg lawyer and NSdAP member Protzmann to supervise the management of the district administrator of Breitenbach. In November 1934, District President Werner Zschintsch put Gerhard von Breitenbach into provisional retirement at the age of 48.
Four weeks after his retirement, von Breitenbach was entrusted with the management of the municipal examination office of the Hanover government. On March 1, 1935, he left Limburg and moved to Hanover. In April 1940 von Breitenbach took over a position as a government director at the high presidium in Breslau .
literature
- Eugen Caspary: The Limburg District Administrator Gerhard von Breitenbach (1924–1934) End of a career in local politics at the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship. In: Nassau Annals. 118, 2007, pp. 491-508.
Web links
- Breitenbach, Gerhard Leopold von. Hessian biography. (As of July 24, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 113 , 1127
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breitenbach, Gerhard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breitenbach, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | District Administrator of the Limburg district, administrative lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1974 |
| Place of death | Munich |