Kurt Wehrle (administrative lawyer)

Kurt Karl Wehrle (* 16th January 1905 in Staufen ; † 17th October 1976 in Freiburg ) was a German jurist, NS - Police Commissioner , standartenführer and district administrator of the district Emmendingen 1953-1970.

career

The son of a high court bailiff studied law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg from 1924 to 1928 . In 1929 Wehrle initially served as a trainee lawyer and from 1932 was an assessor in the judicial service of the Republic of Baden . On May 15, 1933, Wehrle was appointed government assessor and personal secretary to the Nazi interior minister of Baden, Karl Pflaumer . His tasks included, among other things, the processing of personnel matters for the higher service.

In July 1934 Wehrle was appointed police director in Pforzheim , where he worked until he was transferred to Strasbourg in March 1941. After a further stay in Colmar , Wehrle was police chief in Rheydt until 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War he was initially in British custody and fled to Sigmaringen in May 1945 . In March 1946 he was interned by the French occupation authorities for two and a half years. Afterwards he worked temporarily as a forest worker, sales representative and legal assistant. After the verdict of the Riedlingen Chamber VII , he was classified as a minor offender in January 1949.

In 1950 Wehrle was appointed managing director of the working group of the Baden districts. As early as December 1950 he got a job at the District Office Emmendingen. From mid-1951 he led the official title of Oberregierungsrat to reuse , to which he was appointed on the basis of Article 131 of the Basic Law . In December 1951 he was already a member of the government . In May 1953, Wehrle was appointed as the successor to Alfons Oswald as the district administrator in the Emmendingen district. In 1954 he was appointed state district administrator by Interior Minister Fritz Ulrich and in 1956 elected municipal district administrator by the district council of the Emmendingen district. In the fall of 1970, Wehrle retired.

Political past

During his studies, Wehrle became a member of the Freiburg fraternity in 1924 and was formerly a sympathizer of the NSDAP . As such, he was active in the German National Youth Association and the Schlageter Association in the 1920s and joined the SS on January 20, 1933, and shortly afterwards the NSDAP.

He was a member of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) from an early age and from 1933 on behalf of the BNSDJ Gaufführer Arthur Schüssler played a key role in the smashing of the German Civil Service Association (DBB) in Baden and was responsible for bringing administrative officials who were organized in the DBB into convict the BNSDJ.

Awards

Wehrle was SS Standartenführer from 1942 . and received the following awards:

• Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
• SS skull ring
• War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords
• War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords

literature

• Volker Ackermann, Bernd-A. Rusinek and Falk Wiesemann : Links, commemorative publication for Peter Hüttenberger , Düsseldorfer writings on modern regional history and on the history of North Rhine-Westphalia; 39, WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995, ISBN 978-3-88474-184-9 .
• Michael Ruck : Corps Spirit and State Consciousness: Officials in the German Southwest 1928 to 1972 , Oldenbourg, Munich, 1996, ISBN 978-3-486-56197-5 .
• Friedrich Wilhelm: The police in the Nazi state: The history of their organization at a glance , Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 978-3-506-77513-9 .
• Wilfried Loth and Bernd-A. Rusinek : Transformation policy: Nazi elites in the West German post-war society , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-35994-4 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 .
• Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine Volume 153, Kohlhammer Stuttgart, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 229.
2. ↑ According to Michael Ruck: Korpsgeist und Staatsconsciousness: Officials in the German Southwest 1928 to 1972 , Munich, 1996, p. 131, Wehrle initially disqualified himself for civil service because of his miserable examination results.
3. ↑ Volker Ackermann, Bernd-A. Rusinek and Falk Wiesemann: Links, memorial for Peter Hüttenberger , Trier, 1995, p. 262.
4. ↑ Wilfried Loth and Bernd-A. Rusinek: Politics of Transformation: Nazi Elites in West German Post-War Society , Frankfurt am Main 1998, p. 129.
5. ↑ Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine, Volume 153, 2005, p. 618.
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