Albert Abicht
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Albert Abicht was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 farmer and politician (ThLB/DNVP, NSDAP).

Agriculture

After elementary school, Abicht attended the agricultural school in Triptis
Triptis
Triptis is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 22 km southwest of Gera....

 from 1908 to 1910 and then went into agriculture. He served military service during World War
World war
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. From 1917, he worked as a cashier in town Leubsdorf
Leubsdorf
-Geography:The village of Leubsdorf consists of the four parts Leubsdorf, Hesseln, Rothe Kreuz and Krumscheid.-History:First known documents about Leubsdorf date back to 1250. Much older documents of the year 640 are existent under "Lupstorf". The first church in Leubsdorf was built in the 13th...

. Later he returned to his original profession, and in 1928 rented an estate in Oberpöllnitz. From 1927, he was chairman of the Agriculture department in Gera district, Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

 and a member of the Main Chamber of Agriculture in Weimar. In addition, he held various positions in the agricultural community.

Politics

Abicht joined the Thuringian Land League in the 1920s and briefly joined the German National People's Party
German National People's Party
The German National People's Party was a national conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and...

 from 1931 to 1932. In 1933 he joined the Nazi Party. From 1924, he was a member of the district council of Gera district, and in the general election of July 1932 he was elected to the DNVP in the German Reichstag, which he served in until November 1933. In Parliament he represented the constituency of Thuringia.

From 1922 to 1928, Abicht served from as mayor of the municipality of Leubsdorf
Leubsdorf
-Geography:The village of Leubsdorf consists of the four parts Leubsdorf, Hesseln, Rothe Kreuz and Krumscheid.-History:First known documents about Leubsdorf date back to 1250. Much older documents of the year 640 are existent under "Lupstorf". The first church in Leubsdorf was built in the 13th...

. At the same time he was chairman of the rural community association for Gera and board member of the rural community day in Weimar, Thuringia.
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