Hermann Gebbers

This article deals with the district administrator of Bückeburg. For the hunter of the same name and murder victim near Möckern, see Gebberskreuz .

Hermann Gebbers (born October 22, 1879 in Susigke ; † December 28, 1952 ) was district administrator of Bückeburg and Stadthagen .

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Gebbers first began studying economics, tropical agriculture and the oriental languages ​​in Berlin , but later switched to the commercial college in Leipzig . During his studies in Leipzig, he was active in the Cimbria student union in Leipzig from 1905 and, after founding the German Armed Forces, joined the Cheruskia Hamburg as an active member .

After completing his studies, Gebbers worked for the Kakao Compagnie Theodor Reichhardt, among others, in a responsible position in Berlin and German East Africa . From 1915 he took part in an artillery regiment in the First World War. From 1926 he worked as director of the pharmaceutical company Dr. Friedrich Hey in Bückeburg . In 1931 he joined the NSDAP , from February 1932 to December 1937 he headed its local branch in Bückeburg. In the course of the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP, he was appointed district administrator of the Bückeburg district on May 1, 1933 and, in 1936, as district administrator of the Stadthagen district . On April 30, 1945, he was released by order of the British Military Government . Gebbers, who is now seriously ill, spent the last years of his life in Stadthagen .

Gebbers was married to Magdalene Peitmann from Stadthagen for the second time and volunteered in the Wolmirstedt volunteer fire department .

literature

• Stefan Brüdermann: "Pragmatic civil servant in the service of the 'Volksgemeinschaft'". Hermann Gebbers - District Administrator in Bückeburg and Stadthagen. In: Frank Werner (Hrsg.): Schaumburg National Socialists. Perpetrators, accomplices, profiteers (Kulturlandschaft Schaumburg 17), Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2009, 2. A. 2010, ISBN 3895348775 , pp. 169–212.