Martin Albrecht

This article deals with the politician of the NSDAP Martin Albrecht For the Austrian company founder and entrepreneur, see Martin Albrecht (entrepreneur) .

Martin Albrecht

Martin August Reinhold Albrecht (born December 26, 1893 in Ohra , Danzig , † August 30, 1952 in Dortmund ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

After training as an insurance salesman and participating in the First World War as a volunteer , he worked as a worker and employee from 1920. In 1927 Albrecht became the district representative in the food trade for East Germany , meanwhile became a member of the NSDAP and had been district leader of the party in Frankfurt (Oder) since 1930 and, since 1931, district manager of the Brandenburg branch of the NSDAP. From 1932 he belonged to the NSDAP parliamentary group in the Frankfurt city council. At the end of July 1932 Albrecht was elected to the Reichstag for the NSDAP ( constituency Frankfurt (Oder)) , of which he was a member until 1936. Although he ran again in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936 on the list position No. 64, he was not re-elected. Soon afterwards he gave up his party positions.

From 1933 to 1943 Albrecht was Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt (Oder), initially on a temporary basis and from mid-August 1934 onwards. He took over the deputy chairmanship of the supervisory board of Frankfurter Elektrizitäts AG and belonged to the administrative board of the Reichsversicherungsanstalt. In a case against the former managing director of Frankfurter Elektrizitäts AG, he gave testimony, but was subsequently charged himself before a special court and sentenced to 18 months in prison for bribery. After imprisonment in Tegel prison, he did military service in the final phase of World War II and was taken prisoner by the British in Holland.

After the end of the war he was sent to the Fallingbostel internment camp, from which he was released in 1947. After that he lived in Dortmund.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Martin Albrecht in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Lord Mayor Martin Albrecht (1933–1943). City archive Frankfurt (Oder). In: stadtarchiv-ffo.de. Retrieved October 10, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 1: Aachen - Braniß , Munich 2005, p. 107