Victor von Alten (chief general labor leader)

Karl Wilhelm Victor von Alten , modernized Viktor von Alten , (born October 4, 1880 in Seesen ; † May 11, 1967 in Hanover ) was a German officer and National Socialist functionary in the Reich Labor Service (RAD).

Life

Traditional sign of the working district XV led by Victor von Alten

Alten came from the Lower Saxon noble family von Alten and was the son of the ducal-Brunswick chief magistrate Julius August Bruno von Alten (1818-1884) and his wife Bertha nee von Campe (1838-1918). After attending the humanistic grammar school in Holzminden , Victor von Alten joined the Prussian army in Jägerbataillon No. 5 in Hischberg in 1899. He took an active part in the First World War in various positions and then joined the Reichswehr . He worked in the Reichswehr Ministry and was a member of the 6th Cavalry Regiment . As a lieutenant colonel, he retired from active military service and received permission to continue wearing the uniform of the rider regiment No. 6. He was also a member of the Reich Association of German Officers (RDO).

From then on, Victor von Alten worked in the labor service in the NSDAP district of Thuringia. On April 1, 1933, he was appointed Gauarbeitsführer of Arbeitsgau XV Sachsen with an official seat in the Saxon state capital Dresden , which in 1935 was part of the Reich Labor Service . After Victor von Alten had been appointed General Labor Leader, Adolf Hitler promoted him to Senior General Labor Leader on May 16, 1942.

After the end of the Second World War , Victor von Alten was one of the founding members of the "Interest Association of Professional Members of the former Reich Labor Service and their surviving dependents, Bavarian State Association" in Regensburg on March 19, 1949 . Under his leadership, on October 8, 1949, the first meeting of the people involved in the founding of a nationwide organization of the former Reich Labor Service leaders and the heads of the regional associations that had been established so far took place in Cologne .

family

Victor von Alten married Anna Loseit (* 1902) in Berlin on September 27, 1933, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Loseit auf Aulowhnen and his wife Auguste Wilhelmine, née. Froese.

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 17.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Foundation of the German Aristocratic Archives (ed.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Areligenhäuser . tape 3 (GGH 6). Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchiv, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817243-5-6 , p. 128 .
↑ The archive. Reference work for politics, economics, culture, issues 97-99 , p. 132.
↑ Michael Hansen: "Idealists" and "Failed Existences". The leadership corps of the Reich Labor Service . Inaugural dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Faculty III of the University of Trier in History, 2004, p. 326.

personal data
SURNAME	Old man, Victor of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alten, Karl Wilhelm Victor von (full name); Old man, Viktor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer and National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seesen
DATE OF DEATH	May 11, 1967
Place of death	Hanover

[:0-1] Foundation of the German Aristocratic Archives (ed.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Areligenhäuser . tape 3 (GGH 6). Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchiv, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817243-5-6 , p. 128 .

[2] The archive. Reference work for politics, economics, culture, issues 97-99 , p. 132.

[3] Michael Hansen: "Idealists" and "Failed Existences". The leadership corps of the Reich Labor Service . Inaugural dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Faculty III of the University of Trier in History, 2004, p. 326.