Gustav Albrecht (lawyer)
Heinz Gustav Albrecht (born February 10, 1902 in Hamburg ; died 1980 ) was a German administrative lawyer and during the Second World War he was a district chief in German-occupied Poland, a perpetrator of the Holocaust .
Life
Gustav Albrecht studied law, received his doctorate and started his career as an administrative lawyer. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he joined the SA ; he did not become a member of the NSDAP until 1937 after the ban on membership was relaxed . From 1935 to 1937 he was a councilor in the Stade administrative region, then in the Hildesheim administrative region .
After the German invasion of Poland , he was in October 1939 as acting district administrator for Konskie in Radom seconded and was there to Kreishauptmann appointed. At the end of the month he complained in an accountability report to the district chief in which he also mocked the starving Jewish population, whom he sharply opposed, that he lacked staff to carry out the Aryanizations efficiently.
After the German attack on the Soviet Union , he was transferred to the conquered Galicia in August 1941 as the district chief of the Stanislau district . From the remaining files and later statements, no direct involvement by Albrecht in the mass shootings of the Jews in the district, in the burning of the forced ghetto in Stanislau or in the deportations in the district can be proven. At the end of the first phase of Aktion Reinhardt in September 1942, 6119 Jews were counted in the entire Stanislau district, whereas a year earlier there were 27,500 Jews in the city of Stanislau alone .
The German occupiers fled when the Red Army conquered the area in September 1944. Albrecht was still a soldier in the Wehrmacht in February 1945 .
After the war, Albrecht was interned and released in 1946. Nothing is known of its denazification . A later investigation initiated by the central office in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the processing of National Socialist mass crimes in Dortmund was discontinued without result. In 1947, Albrecht found employment as head of the administrative department and senior government councilor at his former office with the district president Hildesheim and finally became head of the Hildesheim branch of the Lower Saxony Bureau for Equalization .
literature
- Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9
- Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 , biographical appendix
- Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2
- Documents
- Management report of the commissioner. District administrator in Konsk to the district chief in Radom , October 29, 1939 , in: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (VEJ), Volume 4, 2011, Document 29, pp. 117ff. There is also a short biography there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galizien , 1996, p. 453
- ↑ a b c d Short biography at VEJ
- ^ Gustav Albrecht: Management Report , October 29, 1939
- ↑ Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galizien , 1996, pp. 237–242
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albrecht, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Albrecht, Heinz Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and district chief in German-occupied Poland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |