Herbert Albrecht was the Nazi Party Gauleiter of Gau Mecklenburg-Lubeck from 1930 to 1931.
15 Facts About Herbert Albrecht
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Herbert Albrecht was a long-serving member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1945.
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In September 1919, Albrecht was discharged from Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 49 with the rank of Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter.
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In 1920, Herbert Albrecht helped to organize the German Social Party in Berlin.
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Between 1919 and 1925, Herbert Albrecht was an agricultural worker, apprentice, and a civil servant in Holstein, Lubeck and East Prussia.
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Herbert Albrecht studied economics and agriculture at the University of Berlin, University of Rostock and University of Giessen.
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On 11 May 1926, Herbert Albrecht formally joined the Nazi Party and stood as a candidate for the Landtag in the Province of Saxony.
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In July 1930, Herbert Albrecht was appointed as acting Gauleiter of Gau Mecklenburg-Lubeck when the incumbent Gauleiter, Friedrich Hildebrandt, was placed on a leave of absence.
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However Herbert Albrecht's tenure was brief, as on 31 January 1931 Hildebrandt was reinstated.
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In September 1930, Herbert Albrecht had been elected a member of the Reichstag from electoral constituency 12, Thuringia.
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From 1931 to 1933 Herbert Albrecht was the chairman of the Nazi faction in the Reichstag economics committee and deputy chairman of the Nazi faction in the budget committee.
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On 20 July 1933 Herbert Albrecht was named Thuringia's Deputy Plenipotentiary to the Reichsrat, a post he held until its abolition on 14 February 1934.
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In December 1933, Herbert Albrecht became a Reichstag secretary and a member of its executive committee.
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Herbert Albrecht would continue in these posts until the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945.
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From 1934 to 1936 Herbert Albrecht served on the board of directors of the Reich Postal Service and as a member of the Small and Large Labor Conventions of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront.