Heinrich Gareis

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Heinrich Gareis (born March 30, 1878 in Burgebrach , † October 10, 1951 in Munich ) was a German lawyer, police chief of Nuremberg and, during the time of National Socialism, district president of Upper Bavaria .

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Gareis attended grammar school in Bayreuth and Ansbach and completed his school career with a high school diploma . From 1897 to 1901 he studied law at the Universities of Erlangen , Berlin and Kiel . During his studies in 1897 he became a member of the Bubenreuth fraternity in Erlangen. After he had passed the first state examination in law in 1901, the legal traineeship followed and in 1905 the second state examination.

After that, Gareis was accepted into the civil service as a government advisor and from 1906 worked for the government in Middle Franconia . From 1909 he was District Office Assessor in Kulmbach and from 1912 in Ansbach . After the First World War , he became a government assessor in 1920 and then senior bailiff and deputy state commissioner for Middle Franconia in Nuremberg. Gareis was promoted to senior government councilor in 1921 and joined the Nuremberg-Fürth police service, which he headed. From the beginning of April 1928 Gareis was police director of Nuremberg-Fürth and acted there from the beginning of November 1929 as police chief.

Gareis had a “German national” attitude and had sympathy for ethnic- German national groups, while he took rigorous action against leftists.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Gareis resigned from the police force in March 1933. In April 1933 Gareis was appointed ministerial director to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and in April 1934 took over the management of the government in Upper Bavaria. At the beginning of May 1937 Gareis became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5.030.396) and in July 1938 he joined the SS , in which he held the rank of SS-Oberführer in June 1939 . After the executive management he was from April 1940 regional president of Upper Bavaria. Due to "financial irregularities" he was released from his office as district president in June 1943. He then got a job in the chemical industry at the Munich company Dr. Alexander Wacker .

After the war, Gareis was until May 1947 in the Allied internment. As part of the denazification process , he was denazified as a follower in Munich in 1948 after a court hearing.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 102-103.
  • Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Munich. The Benno Martin case. A study on the structure of the 3rd Reich in the "City of the Nazi Party Rallies". (= Munich workpieces on urban and regional history. Volume 13) Munich City Archives, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-87432-025-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franco Ruault: New creators of the German people. Julius Streicher in the fight against racial disgrace . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-631-54499-5 , p. 175.
  2. ↑ Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Nurnberg :. The Benno Martin case , Munich 1974, p. 306.
  3. ↑ Götz Aly , Wolf Gruner , Susanne Heim, Ulrich Herbert , Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, ​​Horst Möller, Dieter Pohl and Hartmut Weber (eds.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Volume 1: German Empire 1933–1937. , Edited by Wolf Gruner. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-486-58480-4 , p. 387.
personal data
SURNAME Gareis, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gareis, Heinrich Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, district president, police president and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgebrach
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1951
Place of death Munich