Hermann Unger (District Administrator)

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Hermann Fritz Johannes Unger (born March 24, 1905 in Koblenz ; † April 16, 1980 in Ratingen ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Zell district .

Life

Hermann was a son of NCO August Unger. First he attended the secondary school in Koblenz and then passed his final exam on February 22, 1923. This was followed by an apprenticeship in business administration and, from 1926 to 1929, studying economics and social sciences in Frankfurt am Main . After receiving his doctorate in 1930, on October 1 of the same year he took over the management of the organization department of the German Construction and Settlement Society in Darmstadt until April 20, 1933. Subsequently, on April 23, 1933, he moved as acting mayor to Traben- Trarbach . After a declaration of consent by the district president to be elected mayor and the subsequent election, Ungers was finally officially appointed mayor of Traben-Trarbach on February 16, 1934.

On March 27, 1935, he initially took over the office of district administrator of the Zell district, which was then converted into a final appointment on July 29, 1936. On August 18, 1936, he resigned as mayor of Traben-Trarbach. He was district administrator of the Zell district until 1940.

NSDAP membership

Unger had been a member of the NSDAP since June 2, 1925. Other sources cite the year 1922 as his starting date, according to a note from the Main Office for Local Politics on May 26, 1944. According to this note, he rejoined the party immediately after the re-establishment of the party in February 1925 and on this occasion had the honor of being “the senior citizen Party member of the Gaus Moselland " . He served as district leader of Zell from August 11, 1934 to April 30, 1944.

In the period from 1940 to 1943, Unger was assigned to head the Luxembourg civil administration in accordance with an order for the establishment of the personnel office for the state leadership of the Volksdeutsche movement .

The first appointment as Acting President of the State Labor Office Moselle (respectively from 1 September 1943 Gauarbeitsamt) and on 6 January 1945 was followed on April 1, 1943 once the final order in this position. Since May 3, 1944, he was also Gauamtsleiter für Kommunalpolitik, confirmation for this position was given to him on May 30th, 1944 by the then head of the Main Office for Local Policy , Karl Fiehler .

post war period

Released from office in 1945, Unger was sentenced by the Luxembourg court in 1949 to 20 years' imprisonment. The reasons given for the verdict were that he had promoted the policy of Germanization in Luxembourg through “blind terrorist measures” . The sentence was later reduced to 16 years and Unger was finally released from prison in 1955.

Awards

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unger, Dr. Hermann at online.de/traben_trarbach
  2. ↑ Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP, reconstruction of a lost inventory , Regesten, Volume 2, edited by Helmut Schreiber, R. Oldenburg Verlag Munich Vienna, 1983 ISBN 3-486-50181-X , p. 1043
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unger, Hermann Fritz Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator in the Zell district
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1980
Place of death Ratingen