Albrecht Eitner
Albrecht Eitner (born July 31, 1903 in Görlitz ; † February 1, 1944 in Warsaw ) was a German lawyer and notary in Breslau and in occupied Warsaw. There he was the general trustee of the Jewish property. As a disguised officer in the German Abwehr , he was shot by the Polish Home Army .
Life
Eitner studied law at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms University . He was reciprocated on January 25, 1922 in the Corps Borussia Breslau , Kurt Fürer and Friedrich Fechner were active with him. In 1924 he passed the state examination and in 1925 received his doctorate he attended the University of Breslau for Dr. iur. Attracted early by legal advice , as a trainee lawyer in a law firm in Wroclaw , he had almost as much to do as a full-time employee. After the assessor examination , he joined the firm in May 1928. In mid-1938 he was admitted as a notary . He spoke several languages, including Polish and Russian . The fact that he took the exam as an interpreter enabled his office to expand beyond the borders of the Reich. As an army soldier , he took part in the attack on Poland . At the beginning of 1940 he was commissioned to reorganize the "Bank of the Domestic Economy" in Katowice . He became the authorized representative of the Reich trustee with the task of sifting through the banks' accounts receivable - especially vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and the Baltic states it occupied . He did that with success. Due to his interpreting qualification, he was general trustee of the so-called “ownerless and Jewish property” from August 1, 1940. He was the head of a German residential district and administered the resettlers' assets . He was also the trustee of a cotton factory and managed several companies in Warsaw. In 1940 the provisional administration of seized properties (KVSG) was established. She managed all Jewish property in the form of land and houses in the Warsaw district . Most of the 600 officials were Poles; only the tips were occupied by Germans. The head of the KVSG was Albrecht Eitner, who had his office on the 3rd floor of the Prudential skyscraper in Warsaw. With the Poles he was in the reputation of a "good German" who maintained close relations with Warsaw residents and helped them in many complicated legal matters. Under Wilhelm Canaris he also served in the Abwehr-Ost .
The “Polish underground state court” sentenced Eitner to death at the end of 1943. On February 1, 1944, their soldiers first shot the SS and Police Leader Franz Kutschera . A few hours later, Eitner was shot dead in his office by Zbigniew "Zbyszek" Bogacki and Boleslaw "Bolek" Bondy.
Web links
- Stephan Lehnstaedt: Occupation in the East: Everyday Occupation in Warsaw and Minsk 1939–1944 (2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78/776
- ↑ Dissertation: The consequences of the liquidation-free dissolution of a general partnership on the pending legal dispute .
- ^ Industry and banks in Upper Silesia
- ^ A b Corps newspapers of Borussia Breslau 1940–1944
- ↑ Poland September 1939 – July 1941
- ↑ Śmierć “dobrego” Niemca
- ↑ Akcja "Eitner"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eitner, Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and notary, defense officer in the Generalgouvernement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1944 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |