Richard Alber

Richard Alber (born April 19, 1893 in Stuttgart ; † June 13, 1962 in Langenargen on Lake Constance ) was district administrator of the Münsingen district from 1938 to 1944 .

Life

The son of a post office clerk graduated from high school in Stuttgart in 1911 and then began studying law in Tübingen and Berlin. In 1914 he volunteered for the military and fought on the Western Front in World War I. After the war he continued his studies and passed his first state examination in 1920 and the higher judicial service examination in 1922. In 1923 Richard Alber became a clerk at the Marbach Oberamt and in 1926 at the Mergentheim Oberamt. After working in Künzelsau, Crailsheim and Ulm, he became administrative administrator at the Laupheim regional office in 1933 and district administrator there in 1934. In 1938 he moved to the Münsingen district office as district administrator .

On October 13, 1939, he ordered the evacuation of Grafeneck Castle , which was officially confiscated on the following day "for purposes of the Reich" and was converted into the Grafeneck killing center by January 1940 . In 1944 Alber was dismissed from his post due to the undermining of the National Socialist regime and fled to Switzerland after a faked suicide to avoid being murdered by the Nazis. Due to his negative attitude towards National Socialism, he survived denazification despite earlier membership in various party organizations and was able to work again as a civil servant from 1945. From August 1, 1945 to March 28, 1946, Alber was provisional district administrator in Münsingen. In 1946 he was transferred to Tübingen. Most recently he worked as a government director at the State Office for Land Consolidation and Settlement in Ludwigsburg. In 1959 he retired.

During his studies in 1911 he became a member of the Tübingen royal society Roigel .

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 151 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 6-7.
• Cornelia Rauh-Kühne, Michael Ruck (Ed.): Regional elites between dictatorship and democracy: Baden and Württemberg 1930–1952. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55950-8 , p. 57 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Richard Alber in the Upper Swabian portal