Heinrich Webler

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Heinrich Webler (born May 2, 1897 in Grünstadt , Rheinpfalz, † March 21, 1981 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer in the guardianship system during the Nazi era and in the Federal Republic.

Career

After receiving his doctorate in 1922, Webler was from 1923 to 1971 in the successor to his teacher Christian Jasper Klumker, Managing Director of the Archives of German Professional Guardians . He was also the editor of the Zentralblatt für Jugendrecht und Jugendwohlfahrt .

During the National Socialist era , Webler was a member of the NSDAP and the SA from 1933 . He was also a member of the Association of National Socialist Lawyers and the Academy for German Law .

Webler worked in the main office for people's welfare from 1935 and from 1936 " political director of the political organization of the NSDAP".

From the SA he switched to the SS in 1939 , where he rose to SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1943. Webler was also on the personal staff of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler .

In 1943 he succeeded Günther Roestel as managing director of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare and remained so until 1945.

After the end of the Second World War , he rebuilt the youth welfare institute as the German Institute for Guardianship . In his political work, he had a decisive influence on the reform of the illegitimate law in 1970.

In the Soviet zone of occupation , Webler's work Die Jugend im Recht ( Heymann , Berlin 1939) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out. In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by the youth welfare manual that he published (Heymann, Berlin 1938–39).

In 1963, Webler was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his services to guardianship .

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  1. a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 658.
  2. http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-w.html
  3. http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-h.html