Heinrich Detloff von Kalben

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Heinrich Detloff von Kalben (born January 17, 1898 in Gardelegen , † December 18, 1966 in Lübeck ) was a German National Socialist politician.

Life

The farmer and professional officer, son of Rudolf von Kalben , who came from an aristocratic family in Altmark , took his leave as first lieutenant after the First World War and worked on his parents' estate in Vienau.

He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1930 , sat for them in the Prussian state parliament and in the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony, and between July 1932 and December 1938 was a district inspector in the Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt and Reich speaker of the NSDAP. In 1933 he took over the office of district administrator in the Prussian district of Stendal . He held this office until 1944.

From 1944 until the end of the war he held the office of regional president in the administrative region of Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia in Bavaria .

He also served until 1944, most recently as colonel of the reserve and commander of a Cossack cavalry regiment, in the corps of General Helmuth von Pannwitz .

After the war, von Kalben made a name for himself as an author on the regional history of the Altmark and was instrumental in founding the Schild publishing house in 1953 . a. published the German Soldier's Yearbook. In 1952 he was one of the founders of the Society for Military Studies .

Works

  • The Altmark. The cradle of Brandenburg-Prussia. Pictures from the Väter Land , Munich 1959.
  • Lübeck councilors from the Märkisches nobility. In: Der Wagen 1966, pp. 42–47

literature

  • Thomas Klein (arr.): Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945 , Series A (Prussia) Volume 6 (Province of Saxony), Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 84.
  • Bärbel Holtz (edit / ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925–1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6 , p. 80f.

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personal data
SURNAME Kalben, Heinrich Detloff von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Guards
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1966
Place of death Lübeck