Herbert Evers

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Herbert Evers (born September 3, 1902 in Grevenbrück , † February 7, 1968 in Münster ) was a German lawyer, politician (NSDAP) and district administrator.

Life

Herbert Evers was born as the third of four children of the married couple Robert Evers and Paula, geb. Lucas born. He attended the elementary and rectorate school in Grevenbrück and the Burggymnasium Altena . After graduating from high school (1922), he studied law and history at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1923 he was reciprocated in the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Westphalian Wilhelms University and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1929 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a doctoral thesis on employee invention. He worked as a trainee lawyer at the Hamm Higher Regional Court as well as the Hagen District Court and District Court before he became a court assessor at the Siegen District Court in June 1930 . He worked as a judge here and at the Lüdenscheid district court . In 1931 he became a lawyer and notary in Altena.

On November 4, 1933, he was entrusted with the representative administration of the Olpe District Office. On April 25, 1934, he was initially provisional and on June 4, 1935, he became district administrator of the Olpe district . In January 1940 he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) and worked as a senior war administrator and head of a field command in northern France. In autumn 1944 he was returned to his post on ministerial instructions. From April 1945 to April 1947 he was a prisoner of war . In 1948 he was classified in the denazification in the category IV (fellow travelers). Evers worked for a law firm in Siegen before he became managing director of the Cologne house and landowner association in 1948. He was elected city director of Neheim-Hüsten on April 23, 1954 and remained in this position until he retired on April 30, 1965 due to illness.

Evers joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party on November 11, 1930 and founded the Grevenbrück branch. In the Sturmabteilung since 1931 , his last position was Obersturmbannführer . From 1934 to 1938 he was deputy district leader of the NSDAP in Olpe. In 1948 he became a member of the Catholic labor movement.

According to more recent findings, Evers was more involved in misconduct during the Nazi era than previously assumed. In particular, he is also charged with participating in the deportation of people to concentration camps. The city of Lennestadt (legal successor to the municipality of Grevenbrück) posthumously deprived him of the honorary citizenship granted in 1938 at the council meeting on March 22, 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 23 , 924
  2. Dissertation: Employee inventions in the light of modern administration of justice: a contribution to Sections 121–131 of the draft employment contract law .
  3. cf. Article Heimatchronik , in: Südsauerland, Heimatstimmen aus dem Kreis Olpe , episode 267 (2/2017), p. 207.