Walter Alnor

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Walter CA Alnor (born October 29, 1892 in Gaarden / Holstein , † December 13, 1972 in Bad Segeberg ) was a German politician . He was district administrator in Schleswig-Holstein both before and after World War II . During the time of National Socialism he acted as area commissioner for the Reichskommissariat Ostland in the Latvian Libau (Liepāja).

Life

Reichskommissariat Ostland

After the Jura -Studies doctorate Alnor for Doctor of Law. During his studies he became a member of the Black Castle Association Wikingia Kiel. After the First World War , in which he participated as a war volunteer and from which he returned as a war disabled , Alnor embarked on an administrative career and was first appointed provisional district administrator in Eckernförde in 1926 , and two years later finally district administrator. Since he was only 34 years old at the time of his appointment, he was considered the "youngest district administrator in Prussia". During the Weimar Republic , Walter Alnor was involved in the German national movement and after Hitler came to power in May 1933, he switched to the NSDAP . In an official study published in 2016 by the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district, evidence was provided that Alnor, in his role as district administrator, had anti-Nazi regime opponents locked up by the police and ousted socialist and communist politicians from their offices.

In addition to his professional activity as a district administrator, he held various honorary positions, for example as district hunter master in one of Schleswig-Holstein's 15 private hunting districts.

In 1941 he was appointed by Hinrich Lohse , Gauleiter of the National Socialist Gau Schleswig-Holstein since 1925 and from 1941 at the same time Reich Commissioner for the so-called Ostland, as regional commissioner in the Reichskommissariat Ostland . The official task of an area commissioner was the civil administration of occupied areas. In reality, however, the civil administration became an extended arm of the security service of the SS and the Gestapo . This is also made clear by Lohse's "Preliminary Guidelines for the Treatment of Jews in the Territory of the Reichskommissariat Ostland" issued by Lohse in August 1941. Here the area commissioners were instructed to register Jews through their authorities, to order them to wear Jewish stars, to set up ghettos and to recruit forced laborers for the German armaments industry. It was then also the task of the civil administration to confiscate Jewish assets and ensure that they were forwarded to the German Reich . The area commissioners also organized the evacuation of the ghetto and the transport to the extermination camps. In a letter dated October 11, 1941, Alnor reported from his administrative area in Libau ( Latvia ):

“A moment of unrest were the numerous shootings of Jews that were resumed last week. In the rural areas and small country towns all Jews have been liquidated, in Libau itself around 470. They are all women and children. [...] Especially the shooting of the women and small children who z. B. were led to the execution places screaming, the general horror reached. […] I believe that one day this will prove to be a grave mistake. Unless all of the elements involved are subsequently liquidated. Alnor "

The extent to which Walter Alnor was involved in the murder of the Jews in his district cannot be determined from the available sources. Between 1968 and 1971, on behalf of the Central Office of the State Judicial Institutions for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg, Schleswig-Holstein prosecutors investigated the commissioners of the eastern state, the majority of whom had their residence in the area of ​​the northernmost federal state both before and after their so-called administrative activities in the Baltic States. The proceedings were discontinued because a direct involvement of the Eastern administrative apparatus could not be proven. In the investigation report, however, the indirect involvement was clearly demonstrated on the basis of the documents: While members of the SS and sometimes the Wehrmacht were primarily responsible for the murder of the Jewish population , Reich and regional commissioners took care of the precise preparation and follow-up of the murderous ones Actions.

In January 1943 Walter Alnor gave up his post as area commissioner in Libau and as district administrator in Eckernförde for reasons that were previously unknown and became a member of the board of the Schleswig-Holstein Landesbank . He remained in this position until the end of the war in May 1945. After his denazification , Alnor joined the Christian Democratic Union in the late 1940s . In 1950 he was elected district administrator for the Segeberg district .

In 1959 Alnor retired. As a retiree, he wrote several biography articles for the Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon and was involved in the Society for the Promotion of the Work of Hans Friedrich Blunck , a National Socialist novelist. The Schleswig-Holstein regional association of the German Red Cross made Walter Alnor an honorary member in 1965.

Walter Alnor was the younger brother of the Nazi historian Karl Alnor (1891–1940).

Selected publications

  • Permissibility of police compulsion to use municipal institutions , Kiel 1923
  • Willers Jessen: Man and His Work , Schwensen 1949
  • Encounters and conversations with Hans Friedrich Blunck (Ed. Society for the Promotion of the Work of Hans Friedrich Blunck eV), Plön 1963
  • Dr. Waldemar Abegg ; in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon , Volume 3, Neumünster 1974

literature

  • Wolf von Buchwaldt: Dr. Walter Alnor. In: Olaf Klose , Wolfgang Prange (Hrsg.): Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Volume 98. Neumünster 1973, pp. 331f.
  • Werner Schmidt: Walter Alnor. In: Yearbook Eckernförde. No. 32. Eckernförde 1974, pp. 9-17.
  • Headwind and a. (Ed.): Schleswig Holstein and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. Special issue on the debate on the exhibition War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941–1944 in the Kiel State House in 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 46.
  2. ↑ 1914-18.info, p. 22 ( Memento of January 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ); Accessed March 30, 2010.
  3. ^ Alfred Bernd Gottwaldt / Norbert Kampe: Nazi tyranny: contributions to historical research and legal processing ; in: Volume 11 of the series of publications by the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Education Center , 2005, ISBN 3894682787 , p. 224, note 31
  4. ↑ Homepage Territorial.de : District of Eckernförde ; Accessed March 30, 2010.
  5. ^ Short biography of Alnor on the homepage of the Virtual Museum ; Accessed March 30, 2010.
  6. ↑ http://www.shz.de/lokales/landeszeitung/in-der-nazi-zeit-war-nicht-jeder-landrat-schlecht-id12597131.html
  7. ^ Kreisverein Rendsburg for local history and history eV (ed.): Ernst Bamberger - Wilhelm Hamkens , in: Rendsburger Jahrbuch , supplements Volume 1, Rendsburg 2000, p. 117.
  8. ^ Homepage of the Virtual Museum , article: Holocaust in the "Reichskommissariat Ostland" ; Accessed March 30, 2010.
  9. ↑ Quoted by Uwe Danker in his article “The murder of Jews in the General Commissariat Ostland”. In Gegenwind (Ed.): Schleswig Holstein and the crimes of the Wehrmacht (special issue on the debate on the exhibition Extermination War. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 - 1944 in the Kiel State House in 1999), in Gegenwind No. 128, p. 47 ( online pdf document ; accessed on January 30, 2016).
  10. ↑ Compare: Headwind : Schleswig Holstein and the crimes of the Wehrmacht. Special issue on the debate on the exhibition War of Extermination. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941–1944 in the Kiel Landeshaus 1999, p. 49 ff.
  11. ↑ Local Political Association of the CDU / CSU Germany / Working Group of the CDU / CSU Germany (ed.): Political Yearbook of the CDU / CSU , Volume 3, Recklinghausen 1957, p. 106.
  12. ^ Short biography of Walter Alnors on the homepage of the Virtual Museum ; Accessed March 30, 2010.
  13. ↑ On the work of the NS author Hans-Friedrich Blunck ; Accessed March 30, 2010.
  14. ↑ Festschrift des DRK-Landesverbandes, p. 31 (page 32 of the pdf document; 2.2 MB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed March 30, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.drk-sh.de  
  15. ↑ VIMU - the virtual museum: Walter CA Alnor , Accessed July 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Alnor, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alnor, Walter CA.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator, NS area commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaarden
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1972
Place of death Bad Segeberg