Oskar Oesterle

Oskar Oesterle (born July 13, 1903 in Strasbourg , † November 2, 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German civil servant and mine director.

Live and act

Oesterle was the son of the vocational school director Hermann Oesterle and his wife Elisabeth, nee Blaesy. In his youth he attended the Oberrealschule in Mulhouse in Alsace and, after the family was expelled from Alsace on the occasion of the annexation of this area to France at the end of the First World War, the Oberrealschule in Freiburg im Breisgau and Offenbach. At the latter he obtained his secondary school diploma on March 17, 1922.

From the summer semester of 1922, Oesterle studied law. After seven semesters at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg and Munich , he passed the first state law examination on November 21, 1925 in Frankfurt. On December 19, 1925, he was appointed trainee lawyer at the Kassel Higher Regional Court and was subsequently employed by the public prosecutor's office and at the Hanau district and regional court in the preparatory service from December 24, 1925 .

In 1927 he did his doctorate under Hans Otto de Boor with a thesis on lease law for Dr. jur. (oral exam on March 2, 1927). He was then taken on as a government assessor in the police service. As head of Department 6 (“Right-wing extremist parties and associations, right-wing radical political movements and aspirations as well as right-wing culture and economic policy”) in Department I of the Berlin Police Headquarters from 1931 to 1932, Oesterle was instrumental in the fight against right-wing extremism and especially against the National Socialists responsible in the outgoing Weimar Republic . Oesterle belonged to the SPD .

After the Prussian strike in the summer of 1932, Oesterle was deported by the Papen government to Department K of the Berlin Police Headquarters. In 1933 he was transferred by the National Socialists to the police headquarters in Gleiwitz and the police headquarters in Bytom. For possibly tactical reasons, he joined the SA -motorsturm and remained a relatively undisturbed state official during the National Socialist era .

During the Second World War , Oesterle worked in the administration of occupied Alsace-Lorraine . Nothing is known about its denazification . After the war, he served as Ministerialrat in Baden-Württemberg and then as Director of the Buggingen Potash Salt Mine and as Vice President of the Chamber of Industry and Crafts in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Honors

• 1952: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• Lease right in the Reich Settlement Act , 1927. (Dissertation)

literature

• Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. The development of the Prussian political police from the state security organ to the secret state police office of the Third Reich (= individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Vol. 36). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7678-0585-5 (At the same time: Bern, University, habilitation paper, 1980).
• Who is who? Volume 14, part 1. 1962, p. 1117.

Web links

• Literature by and about Oskar Oesterle in the catalog of the German National Library