Hermann Rieger (District Administrator)

Carl Hermann Rieger (born November 7, 1896 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † after 1955) was a German district administrator in Württemberg and occupied Poland during the Nazi era . In the Federal Republic he again became a Councilor in the country Württemberg-Hohenzollern busy.

Life

Rieger studied in Tübingen law . He passed the two state law examinations in 1921 and 1923 and joined the internal administration of Württemberg in 1923. From 1925 he was a clerk at the Oberamt Rottenburg , then Oberamt Geislingen and in 1929 at the Amtsoberamt Stuttgart . He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . November 15, 1933, he was chief official in Oberamt Tuttlingen , after the renaming of the "top posts" in "circles" in 1934 in Tuttlingen, after the administrative reform in 1938 district administrator in the district Tuttlingen .

With the establishment of the General Government in Poland after the beginning of the Second World War , he was transferred to the administration in Przemyśl from September 11, 1939 and then to the Sanok district , there under Albert Schaar. Until the end of February 1940 he was District Chief in circles Jarosław in the district of Krakow , Governor was there Otto Wachter .

On March 1, 1940, he returned to Württemberg and was, initially as an official administrator , district administrator in the Rottweil district .

Even after the end of the war he was district administrator until June 30, 1945 and was then interned by the American occupation forces until October 1, 1946 . During the denazification in 1947 his “dismissal without pay” was ordered, Rieger “can be employed as an employee, but not in a managerial position”. In the revision procedure , Rieger was now classified as a follower and he returned to the public service in 1948 as a senior government councilor at the state trade office. In 1955 he was employed by the regional council of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

No information is available about the time thereafter.

literature

• Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 463 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography by Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 496