Joseph Gerdes

Joseph Hermann Gerdes (born September 11, 1884 in Vreden ; † November 4, 1959 in Münster ) was a German district administrator.

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Joseph Gerdes attended Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium in Lemgo up to the upper secondary school and then switched to the seafaring school in Bremen. He became a captain and was a first lieutenant commander of a torpedo boat in the First World War .

After the war he took up a job in a sawmill in Hamm and was then unemployed. On June 24, 1925 he became a member of the NSDAP and founded the NSDAP local group Verden / Aller. In the same year he joined the SA . Gerdes found a job as a municipal employee on June 1, 1926 and became the first director of Halle Münsterland .

On November 28, 1933 he was commissioned to represent the administration of the Warendorf District Office. On May 11, 1934 initially provisional, the definitive appointment to District Administrator of the Warendorf district was on August 17, 1934. From 1935 Gerdes was Hauptsturmführer (SA) . From 1934 to 1938 he was district inspector of the NSDAP.

Geerdes was deputy district administrator in Beckum from January 12 to 25, 1942 , and with interruptions from January 26, 1942 to 1945 district administrator in Tecklenburg . He held the district office for the Warendorf district until March 31, 1945.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 156 f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).