Adolf Ehrecke

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Adolf Ehrecke
Gauleiter of the Saar
In office
30 July 1929 – 1 September 1931
Preceded byGustav Staebe
Succeeded byKarl Brück
Personal details
Born14 January 1900
Schoolteacher

Adolf Ehrecke (14 January 1900 – 12 April 1980) was a

schoolteacher and Nazi Party official who served as the Gauleiter in the Saar from 1929 to 1931 when it was being administered by France and the United Kingdom under a League of Nations mandate
.

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

anti-Semitic propaganda, he was officially expelled from the educational service by the Saar's Governing Commission. This was followed on 20 June 1931 by denial of a residence permit and his expulsion from the Saar territory by the Governing Commission. On 1 September 1931, at his own request, Ehrecke formally stepped down from his Gauleiter position and was succeeded by Karl Brück.[3]

Moving to

Artur Seyss-Inquart. Little is known of his postwar life, and he died in Inzell in 1980.[5]

References

  1. ^ Miller & Schulz 2012, pp. 136–137.
  2. ^ Höffkes 1986, p. 57.
  3. ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2012, p. 136.
  4. ^ Gerhard 1987, pp. 52, 180.
  5. ^ 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). .
  • Höffkes, Karl (1986). Hitlers Politische Generale. Die Gauleiter des Dritten Reiches: ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk. Tübingen: Grabert-Verlag. .
  • 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. .

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