1. Alfred Freyberg was a German lawyer, Nazi Party politician and SS-Gruppenfuhrer who served as the Ministerprasident of the Free State of Anhalt from 1932 to 1940 and the Oberburgermeister of Leipzig from 1939 to 1945.
13 Facts About Alfred Freyberg
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Alfred Freyberg committed suicide together with his family in the closing days of the Second World War in Europe.
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Alfred Freyberg attended volksschule there and then went to the realgymnasium in Halberstadt.
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Alfred Freyberg served in an artillery regiment and was promoted to Leutnant of reserves in March 1917.
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Alfred Freyberg then returned to his studies and in 1918 passed the preliminary state law exam in Naumburg.
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Alfred Freyberg joined the Nazi Party in Quedlinburg on 27 May 1925 and founded the Ortsgruppe there, which he led until 1927 as Ortsgruppenleiter.
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The Nazis formed a coalition government with the conservative German National People's Party on 21 May 1932 and Alfred Freyberg became the first Nazi Ministerprasident of a state in the Weimar Republic.
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On 22 November 1933, Alfred Freyberg joined the Schutzstaffel with the rank of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer.
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On 21 August 1939 Alfred Freyberg was appointed the Oberburgermeister of the city of Leipzig, then Germany's sixth most populous city.
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Alfred Freyberg left his post at the head of the Anhalt state government on 8 January 1940, being succeeded by the Anhalt Reichsstatthalter Rudolf Jordan.
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Alfred Freyberg was a committed anti-Semite and his administration pursued policies of discrimination, exploitation and, ultimately, expulsion of Jews from Leipzig to the Auschwitz death camp.
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On his fiftieth birthday, 12 July 1942, Alfred Freyberg was promoted to SS-Gruppenfuhrer by Adolf Hitler.
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On 18 April 1945, one day before elements of the US Army entered Leipzig, Alfred Freyberg committed suicide by cyanide poisoning in the Leipzig town hall together with his wife and 20-year-old daughter.