Albert Forster

Albert Maria Forster (26 July 1902 – 28 February 1952) was a Nazi German politician, member of the SS and war criminal. Under his administration as the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Danzig-West Prussia (the other German-annexed section of occupied Poland aside from the Warthegau) during the Second World War, the local non-German populations of Poles and Jews were classified as sub-human and subjected to extermination campaigns involving ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and in the case of some Poles with German ancestry, forceful Germanisation. Forster was directly responsible for the extermination of non-Germans and was a strong supporter of Polish genocide, which he had advocated before the war. Forster was tried, convicted and hanged in Warsaw for his crimes, after Germany was defeated.

For other people named Forster, see Forster (surname).
Albert Forster
As SS-Gruppenführer c. 1939
Gauleiter of the Free City of Danzig
In office
15 October 1930 – 26 October 1939
Preceded byArthur Greiser
Succeeded byposition abolished
Head of State of the Free City of Danzig
In office
23 August 1939 – 1 September 1939
Preceded byArthur Greiser
Succeeded byposition abolished
Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia
In office
26 October 1939 – 27 March 1945
Appointed byAdolf Hitler
Preceded bypositions established
Succeeded bypositions abolished
Personal details
Born26 July 1902
Fürth, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died28 February 1952 (aged 49)
Mokotów Prison, Warsaw, Polish People's Republic
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Political partyNational Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)
SpouseGertrud Deetz
Military service
RankSS-Obergruppenführer
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