Adolf Ehrecke
Adolf Ehrecke | |
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Gauleiter of the Saar | |
In office 30 July 1929 – 1 September 1931 | |
Preceded by | Gustav Staebe |
Succeeded by | Karl Brück |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 January 1900 Schoolteacher |
Adolf Ehrecke (14 January 1900 – 12 April 1980) was a
Biography
Adolf Ehrecke was born Ochsenfurt in Bavaria and attended the Marine Technical School for Administration and Economics. He became a member of the Nazi Party Ortsgruppe (Local Group) in Nuremberg on 1 April 1925 (membership number 458). His early entry into the Party would later entitle him to be awarded the Golden Party Badge.[1] He joined the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Party's paramilitary organization, in 1926. He advanced in the Party organization, being named an Ortsgruppenleiter in 1929.[2] Also in 1929, he was appointed a Studienassessor (probationary teacher in the civil service) but, later that year, the Governing Commission of the Saar suspended him from this teaching position for political agitation.[3]
Ehrecke was appointed to the post of
Moving to
References
- ^ Miller & Schulz 2012, pp. 136–137.
- ^ Höffkes 1986, p. 57.
- ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2012, p. 136.
- ^ Gerhard 1987, pp. 52, 180.
- ^ Miller & Schulz 2012, p. 137.
Sources
- Gerhard, Paul (1987). Die NSDAP des Saargebietes, 1920-1935: Der Verspätete Aufstieg der NSDAP In der Katholisch-proletarischen Provinz. Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag (SDV). ISBN 3-925036-11-3.
- Höffkes, Karl (1986). Hitlers Politische Generale. Die Gauleiter des Dritten Reiches: ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk. Tübingen: Grabert-Verlag. ISBN 3-87847-163-7.
- Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas (2012). Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925–1945. Vol. 1 (Herbert Albrecht - H. Wilhelm Hüttmann). R. James Bender Publishing. ISBN 978-1-932-97021-0.