Karl Lange (District Administrator)

Karl Lange (born August 8, 1892 in Bad Schwalbach ; † January 30, 1966 there ) was a German local politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

origin

Karl Lange was the son of gendarme Conrad Lange. He was married to Johanna Hönig.

Career

After the Obersekunda he entered the judicial service and in 1913 became a judge. On August 3, 1914, he signed up for military service as a war volunteer and was seriously wounded in the same year. On December 8, 1916, he became a lieutenant in the reserve. In 1916 he suffered gas poisoning. In the spring of 1918 he became an officer at the Beverloo military training area . On December 17, 1918, he was dismissed from the army as an officer, but was still employed as an officer between February 1919 and April 30, 1920 before he finally retired from military service. In 1921 and again in 1925 he became the judicial secretary.

At the end of May 1920 he joined the Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . He later joined the German Party and in 1923 the NSDAP. After the dissolution of the NSDAP he was a member of the German-Völkische Freedom Party in Frankfurt am Main. In Frankfurt in 1923 he was also the leader of the SA under the code name of a gymnastics and sports club. On September 17, 1924 he became the leader of the Frontbann , Kommando Frankfurt.

In July 1924 he was dismissed from the civil service due to his political activities, but was hired again as Justice Secretary at the Frankfurt am Main District Court in 1925 due to the lack of civil servants .

At the end of 1927 he rejoined the NSDAP ( membership number 87.130). From the beginning of 1928 he was Gauredner and later Reich speaker of the party. On December 12, 1928 he was elected to the city council of Frankfurt for the NSDAP and was parliamentary group leader there from October 1930. He ran as a candidate for the NSDAP in various elections to the state and Reichstag, but was not elected.

In 1931/32 he was subjected to disciplinary proceedings because of his political work. In the second instance he was acquitted.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he made a career. In March 1933 he became head of the city council in Frankfurt, president of the Wiesbaden municipal council and vice-president of the Hessen-Nassau regional council . In April 1933 he became the acting mayor of Oberursel . On October 23, 1933 he was deputy, from May 28, 1934 provisional and from August 20, 1935 definitely district administrator in the Oberlahnkreis . On May 11, 1939, he became provisional and January 11, 1940 definitively district administrator in the St. Goarshausen district . On December 29, 1942, he was transferred to the district of Falkenberg in Upper Silesia as district administrator . He remained in this office until the collapse in 1945.

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class
• Hessian bravery medal

literature

• 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. 162