Hermann Althaus

Hermann Althaus (* 10. January 1899 in Hoyel ; † 19th August 1966 in Kassel ) was a German social officer in a management position and oberführer in the era of National Socialism .

Life

Althaus, son of a pastor, volunteered for military service after attending the Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium in Linden in 1917 during the First World War . He then began in 1919 to study agriculture and forestry at the University of Leipzig . After graduating, he worked in this field. From 1925 he was a welfare worker before he became a state youth worker in Neustrelitz in 1928 and thus achieved the status of a social worker . A year later he switched to teaching at the welfare school of the police headquarters and in the same year became head of social aid at the city mission in Berlin . In 1933 he moved to the State Welfare and Youth Welfare Office.

In 1932 Althaus joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.105.246). In March 1933 he became an employee of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). In July 1933 he was appointed head of the welfare and youth care department in the NS Main Office for People's Welfare and in February 1935 he was appointed head of the office. At that time the NS main office was in Hirschgarten near Berlin, Wormditterstrasse 18. He ran on the NSDAP's nomination at number 68 in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, but was not elected to the Reichstag .

From 1935 to 1944, Althaus was co-editor of the Zentralblatt für Jugendrecht und Jugendwohlfahrt under the editorship of Heinrich Webler .

Althaus chaired the German Association for Public and Private Welfare from 1936 to 1945 , Ralf Zeitler was his deputy . Althaus also headed the Reichszentrale for the rural stay of city children and was chairman of the German Institute for Youth Welfare and the Reich Association for the Welfare of Prisoners. In addition, he was a Reich speaker . Althaus was deputy to the NSV manager Erich Hilgenfeldt .

Althaus joined the SS in 1939 (membership number 323.032), in which he was promoted to Oberführer in April 1944. He received the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP . During the Second World War he participated in the implementation of the mother and child aid organization . With Werner Betcke , he edited the concise dictionary on National Socialist welfare.

After the war he was interned until May 1948. When he was denazified , he was classified first as the main culprit and then as a minor offender by the jury with probation conditions. From 1950 to 1964 he was in Kassel in the social administration as managing director of the Hessisches Siechenhaus e. V active.

Fonts

• with Werner Betcke (Hrsg.): Short dictionary of welfare care . C. Heymann, Berlin 1937.
• National Socialist People's Welfare. Junker & Dünnhaupt , Berlin 1936. (was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war ).

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 1 ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
• Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2., updated Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Association for Public and Private Welfare - Exhibition. (PDF; 14.8 MB)
2. ↑ Hermann Althaus. on www.dws-xip.pl
3. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, List of the Literature to be Separated - Preliminary Edition, Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946