Adolf Schmidt (lawyer)

Fritz-Hans Adolf Schmidt (born June 11, 1898 in Ilberstedt , Duchy of Anhalt , † December 5, 1985 in Düsseldorf ) was a German administrative lawyer and officer. As a National Socialist he was District Chief of Krasnystaw in the General Government.

Life

Schmidt graduated from the Domgymnasium Naumburg and passed the Abitur in 1916 . Then drafted into the Saxon Army , he took part in the First World War as a soldier (most recently as a lieutenant ) in the German Army from 1917 . After the end of the war he fought against the rebellious Poles in Upper Silesia in the Eastern Border Guard until October 1919 . He began to study law at the University of Jena in 1919 . He became active in the Corps Thuringia Jena in 1920 and directed the 100th Foundation Festival. As an inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig. After he had passed the assessor exam in 1926 , he settled in Dresden as a lawyer . In 1923 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party for the first time . After the party was temporarily banned as a result of the Hitler putsch , he became a member of the NSDAP again in 1929 (membership number 127.129). Since 1931 a member of the SA , he was legal advisor to the SA group in Saxony . In November 1933, the SA-Obersturmbannführer promoted, he was by the end of June 1934 adjutant of Manfred von Killinger . He was arrested after the Roman coup on July 1, 1934 and released from prison on July 26, 1934. Because of the allegation of infidelity , he had to answer in 1936 in court. He was sentenced to one year in prison; The sentence was in the 1937 appeal abolished. Then Schmidt was again a lawyer and notary in Dresden.

Schmidt took part as a soldier in the army (Wehrmacht) in the Polish and Western campaigns, most recently as a captain . Ernst Zörner , governor of the Lublin district , brought him to the Generalgouvernement as a personal advisor in February 1941 . From the end of June 1941 to February 1944 Schmidt served as District Chief in Krasnystaw operates. He directed deportations of Jews to the extermination camps. In the spring of 1944 he returned to the Wehrmacht. After the surrender of the Wehrmacht , he was taken prisoner for four weeks in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer . Then he moved to his sister near Dachau . No preliminary investigation was initiated against him. When Jewish ghetto inmates brought compensation proceedings against the Federal Republic of Germany , Schmidt, Ludwig Losacker and Hans-Adolf Asbach were called as witnesses in 1955 . They agreed to deny any knowledge of ghettoization and shootings. Nothing is known about his denazification (including in his corps). In the post-war period in Germany he created a new existence in Ingolstadt . He supported the new beginning of the Corps Misnia IV in Erlangen and in 1949 also received the ribbon of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . Later he was legal advisor in Wuppertal and from 1951 a lawyer in Düsseldorf. He loved the hunt .

Awards

• Order of Albrecht II class with swords
• Iron Cross 2nd Class (World War I)
• War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd class with swords

literature

• Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd unchanged edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 , p. 388.
• Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 , p. 502.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} [Herbert] Friedrichs: Obituary for Adolf Schmidt . Thuringian Newspaper (1986)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 174/952; 100/66; 87/1096.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 392
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Lusatia personnel files
5. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 344.