Robert Plank (local authority)

Robert Plank (born October 31, 1889 in Landshut ; died September 3, 1949 there ) was a German municipal official in Nuremberg .

Life

Robert Plank attended grammar school in Landshut and studied law in Munich . He received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen in 1914 . The clerkship interrupted he was a soldier in the First World War on the Eastern and Western Front used and was identified as Lieutenant dismissed. In 1919 he passed the second state examination and became an administrative officer at the city of Nuremberg in the welfare and youth department. In 1925 he was elected to the city council. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Plank joined the NSDAP and, in addition to the office of youth officer and deputy for welfare and institutions in 1934, he also took on theater and concerts in the city ​​of the Nazi party rallies . In the autumn of 1933 he received an honorary doctorate from the medical faculty of the University of Munich in recognition of the exemplary management of the municipal health department . During the time of National Socialism , he headed the South German Working Group for Welfare Care in the German Community Conference . In the organization of the German Red Cross he was promoted to DRK general leader in 1937.

Plank fell out with Julius Streicher , but enjoyed Karl Fiehler's trust . In the party organization , he was head of the district headquarters in the office for local politics and head of the district in the office for race politics . In the internal party scramble for influence on the people's welfare institutions, Plank tried to strengthen the competencies of local organizations against the advance of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) in a people's care law.

Plank has written numerous articles on health policy and child care. He was arrested by the Allies after the end of the war ; nothing is known about his denazification . As early as 1948 he was again active in local politics as managing director of the Nuremberg development company.

Fonts (selection)

• Default by the author and publisher . Munich: Krämer, 1913. Erlangen, Jur.Diss., 1914
• with Andreas Grieser : The effects of alcoholism, viewed from the point of view of a metropolitan administration. The welfare of drinkers in the context of public and private welfare . Berlin-Dahlem: "On the Watch", 1930
• Ten years of Nuremberg Children's Aid, 1920–1930 . Nuremberg: Franconian Publishing House, 1931
• The new welfare center for lung patients in Nuremberg . Nuremberg: Spandel, 1933
• Festschrift on the occasion of the reopening of the Nuremberg Opera House . Nuremberg, 1935
• Welfare and youth law . Berlin ; Spaeth & Linde, 1936 = The Administration Academy. 2.1.29. The construction of the National Socialist state; Group 1, The Administrative Structure; 29, Welfare and Youth Law

literature

• Eckhard Hansen: Plank, Robert , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 471f.
• Eckhard Hansen: Welfare policy in the Nazi state: motivations, conflicts and power structures in the "socialism of action" of the Third Reich . Augsburg: Maro, 1991 ISBN 3-87512-176-7 .