Herbert Kleine
Herbert Kleine (born August 20, 1887 in Heegermühle , Brandenburg , † February 24, 1978 in Hanover ) was a German administrative lawyer .
Life
Even as a student at Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Eberswalde , Kleine was often in East Prussia , where his mother was from. After graduating from high school in 1906, he went to Königsberg and studied law and political science at Albertus University . His sister was married to an old man of the Corps Masovia . In the summer semester of 1906 he became a member of his brother-in-law's corps. In 1909 he passed the trainee exam . In 1910 he signed up as a one-year volunteer for the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 , where he became a reserve lieutenant in 1913 . After he had passed the assessor exam in 1914 , he took part in the whole of World War I and fought as a company commander, regimental adjutant and staff officer in almost all eastern theaters of war , including Galicia and Macedonia .
Weimar Republic
In 1919 he was taken over as a government assessor in the internal administration of the Free State of Prussia . In the same year he married Emma Oesterreich († 1946) from the neighboring estate of his brother-in-law. With her he had four sons. Since 1922 government councilor , he was appointed to the high presidium of the province of East Prussia , in the administrative district of Königsberg and in the administrative district of Allenstein .
On April 1, 1925 provisionally and finally in August 1925 he was elected district administrator of the West Prussian district of Rosenberg . The following years were also significant for Kleine because he enjoyed the trusting affection of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , whose Neudeck estate was in the Rosenberg district.
time of the nationalsocialism
After Hindenburg died in 1934, Kleine was put into temporary retirement in May 1935 . A district leader of the NSDAP took over the post . In July 1935, Kleine was referred to the police headquarters in Berlin . In 1935 he was a member of the SS with the rank of Oberscharführer ( Sergeant Major ) .
In 1938 he came to the Upper Presidium of the Province of Brandenburg as Government Director and Head of the Defense Department . In 1939 he was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Economics and appointed Ministerialrat .
In the Second World War , Kleine became a soldier again. In 1942/43 he was in the Crimea , the Caucasus and the Ukraine . In September 1943 he came to France as a battalion commander , fortress commander and lieutenant colonel . As such, he was taken prisoner by the United States at the end of the war until 1946 . Nothing is known about its denazification .
Hanover
Retired from civil service in 1945 at the age of 58, in 1948 he became deputy managing director of the Lower Saxony state people in Hanover. He continued his legal duties until his 85th birthday. He left behind his second wife Suzanne geb. de Marné , whom he married in 1947 after the death of his first wife.
Awards in the First World War
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class with the war decoration
- Iron crescent
- Bulgarian Military Order for Valor, 4th class, 2nd grade
literature
- Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2001 (Acta borussica Volume 12 / II) ISBN 3-487-12704-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 87/963
- ↑ Bärbel Holtz: The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry . Hildesheim, 2001 (Acta borussica, Vol. 12 / II), p. 611
- ^ Obituary in Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren , No. 63 (1978), p. 1583 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Little one, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heegermühle , Brandenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1978 |
| Place of death | Hanover |