Hermann Heerdt

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Hermann Karl Peter Heerdt (born December 31, 1900 in Koblenz ; † February 6, 1959 in Alsfeld ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Dill district and the district of Aachen .

Life

Origin and education

Hermann Heerdt was born in the Rhineland as the son of the Protestant Karl Heerdt, who most recently held the rank of Chief Postal Director . He first attended school in Frankfurt am Main and then the grammar school in Torgau . In the last year of the First World War , he interrupted grammar school in June 1918 with the upper primary qualification to do his army service. In May 1919 he passed the war maturity examination. From May to August 1919 he was still a member of the Reichswehr . Heerdt bridged the period up to the beginning of his studies with a practical job in the railway workshops in Dresden and an activity in the banking industry. This was followed by a law degree at the universities of Greifswald , Göttingen and Marburg . Heerdt passed his first legal exam in November 1924 at the Higher Regional Court of Kassel , whereupon he began his preparatory service in the OLG district of Frankfurt am Main on December 21, 1924 .

After a successful oral examination on 17 June 1925 doctorate Heerdt on 25 February 1927 with the work Jurisdiction in the occupied Rhine country in Marburg Dr. jur. , the following year he passed the Grand State Examination . He then worked as a court assessor at local courts, lawyers and the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main.

Career

Immediately after the First World War, Hermann Heerdt belonged to right-wing national associations and joined the NSDAP in 1932 . After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he was on 16 July 1933 as Councilor transferred to the Prussian State Police management and thereby got a job in Frankfurt am Main. When Otto Bünger , the previous district administrator of the Dill district, who had been on leave since April 18, 1933 for political reasons, was temporarily retired on September 18, 1934 , Heerdt initially succeeded him temporarily. On May 27, 1935, the administration of the district was definitively transferred to him. Three years later, on June 10, 1938, he received his provisional transfer to the Reich Ministry of the Interior , effective August 1 , where he was also appointed to the Upper Government on November 22, 1938. In 1940, when he was transferred to the Reich Security Main Office, he was promoted to Ministerialrat . In the course of the establishment of a security policy apparatus in France occupied by German troops, a so-called KdS office was set up at the headquarters of the respective regional prefecture by order of May 20, 1942 . Hermann Heerdt was one of the 14 "Commanders of the Security Police and SD" (KdS) in France. Its location was Rennes in Brittany . Shortly before the collapse of the Western Front on June 23, 1944, he was commissioned to manage the Aachen district. Four months later, on October 21, 1944 , Aachen was the first major city of the Third Reich to be captured by the Allies .

Awards

Memberships

Fonts

  • The case law in the occupied Rhineland. (also dissertation, University of Marburg), Friedrich, Marburg 1927.

literature

  • Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist crimes in France and the justice system of the Federal Republic of Germany, Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-693-8 .
  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 137 f.
  • Ahlrich Meyer: perpetrator under interrogation. The final solution to the Jewish question in France 1940–1944, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 978-3-534-17564-2 .
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 322 f . u. Note 209.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945.
  2. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 .
  3. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany
  4. ↑ Ahlrich Meyer: perpetrators in interrogation. The final solution of the Jewish question in France 1940–1944,
personal data
SURNAME Heerdt, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heerdt, Hermann Karl Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1959
Place of death Alsfeld