Hans Gehrels

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Hans Gehrels (born October 19, 1904 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) , † January 27, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and district administrator .

Life

Gehrels grew up in Oldenburg and graduated from the Reform Realgymnasium there in 1924 . He then studied law and political science in Tübingen and Breslau from 1924 to 1927 . During his studies, he became a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen and the Corps Silesia Breslau . After the assessor exam in March 1931, he went abroad for two years.

Gehrels joined the NSDAP in 1931 and the Schutzstaffel in 1933 . With the SS, Gehrels rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1940 . From 1933 to 1936 he was then a government assessor in the Wesermarsch district .

From 1937 Gehrels worked as an advisor for youth welfare in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . As senior government councilor and district leader of the NSDAP, he was district administrator in the Posen-Land district from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1944 to early 1945 . In the meantime, he took part in war missions from 1941 to 1943 as a member of the Waffen SS . In 1942 he was represented as district administrator by Harry Siegmund . In the spring of 1945 Gehrels was district administrator in the Bersenbrück district .

After the end of World War II , he was automatically arrested until 1950 . After that he was a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Economics in Bonn until his retirement in 1969 , from 1957 as a ministerial advisor .

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  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 177
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Gehrels, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1998
Place of death Berlin