Alfred Meyer Was an Enigma

Not Alfred Meyer per se (there was nothing enigmatic about him as an individual or as a Nazi official), but his presence at the Wannsee Conference. To put it simply: what the hell he was doing there – and why?

This is a highly valid question, because Wannsee Conference was all about “Holocaust by Gas” (more precisely, about creating the infrastructure for the latter and making it happen).

More specifically, it was all about deporting the Polish and other European Jews to SS killing centers in occupied Poland and their subsequent serial mass murder in stationary gas chambers (mobile gas chambers in Chelmno were used to mass murder almost exclusively Polish Jews).

Alfred Meyer was the deputy of Alfred Rosenberg in Ostministerium which had no jurisdiction over occupied Poland – or any other European country under German control, for that matter.

It had jurisdiction only over German-occupied territories of the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia – and in those territories all Jews were destined to be mass murdered locally – by mass shootings. And were.

Still, according to Wannsee Protocol (which is trustworthy – it only omitted a lot), Alfred Meyer expressed the opinion that preparatory measures for the Final Solution should be carried out immediately in his jurisdiction (i.e., in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union).

There is only one logical explanation: Wannsee Conference was about the whole “Holocaust Project”, not just the “Holocaust by Gas”. Presence of Rudolf Lange provides evidence that, indeed, that was the case. As does presence of Georg Leibbrandt who also worked for the Ostministerium.

A conservative and a monarchist, Meyer aspired to become a Prussian military officer. However, upon graduation, he entered the University of Lausanne to study law. After one term in Lausanne, he unexpectedly received an appointment as a Fahnenjunker (cadet officer) in 1912.

He passed his officer exam and was commissioned as a Leutnant on June 16, 1913. During World War I he fought on the Western Front, earning the Iron Cross first and second class and the Wound Badge. 

Promoted to Oberleutnant in June 1916, he was wounded and captured by the French in April 1917. After he was released, the downsized Reichswehr had no room for him and he left the army in October 1920 with the rank of Hauptmann.

After the war, Meyer studied jurisprudence and political science at the Universities of Bonn and W;rzburg. He graduated with a PhD in 1922 and joined the legal department of a Gelsenkirchen mining firm. In 1924, he joined the local Masonic lodge – which was very strange, given that the Nazis treated Freemasons only marginally better than the Jews.

Meyer joined NSDAP in 1928, which qualified him as Alter K;mpfer (Old Fighter) … and then went into politics (happens to lawyers all the time everywhere). In November 1929, he was also elected as the only Nazi party representative to the Gelsenkirchen city council where he remained until January 1931.

His Nazi career was fast and stellar: in September 1930, Meyer was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 17, North Westphalia, and on 31 January 1931, he was appointed the Gauleiter of the newly-formed Gau Westphalia-North. He also became the editor of the local Party newspaper, the Westf;lische Landeszeitung Rot-Erde.

In April of 1932, he was elected to the Prussian Landtag. Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Meyer was appointed to Westphalia Provincial Landtag March, becoming its president in April.

On May 16th, Adolf Hitler appointed him as the federal Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the German States of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe. In November 1938 he was made Oberpr;sident of the Prussian Province of Westphalia, thus uniting under his control the highest party and governmental offices in his jurisdictions. He was promoted to SA-Gruppenf;hrer in April 1936 and to SA-Obergruppenf;hrer in November 1938.

For unknown reason (such strange transfers happened in the Reich all the time), in July of 1941 he was named St;ndiger Stellvertreter (permanent deputy) to Reichsminister Alfred Rosenberg in the newly-established Ostministerium.

Meyer was responsible for the departments of politics, administration and economics (the latter included utilization of slave labor).

On April 11, 1945, Meyer committed suicide… or so it seems. In mid-May 1945, a body, decomposed beyond recognition but later determined to be Meyer, was found in Hessisch Oldendorf by the River Weser. Next to the body was a pistol and a suicide note written in his handwriting.

What really happened to him, is not known for sure; however, no one has seen him or heard about him since.