Artur Kääb

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Artur Kääb , eigtl. Hans Willibald Artur Kääb (born October 11, 1890 in Maroldsweisach ; † August 3, 1982 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer . Among other things, he was responsible for the establishment of the nationwide people's index and temporarily acting police chief of Munich .

Career

Kääb studied law and political science in Munich , Erlangen and Würzburg , where he "the retroactive effect of a possible dissolution of the Jesuit law. A constitutional trials to the state law" in 1913 with the work of his doctorate .

After participating in the First World War , he passed the Great State Examination in 1920 and was accepted into the Bavarian civil service with seniority from 1916. He was initially District Officer in Pirmasens and then was Councilor and later Councilor I. class in the government of the Palatinate in Speyer .

In 1934 he was seconded to the Reich Ministry of the Interior (police department). In the summer of 1935 he was accepted into the Reich Service. From June 1936 he worked for the Reichsführer-SS and chief of the German police (main office of the Ordnungspolizei ). On March 10, 1940, he joined the NSDAP . From August 1944 until the end of the war , he was seconded to the Munich Police Headquarters , and during the last 9 days of the war he was acting police chief.

During the time of National Socialism , his participation in the creation of the so-called people's index, for which he and Erich Liebermann von Sonnenberg had been responsible since 1939 in the main office of the Ordnungspolizei, was significant .

He was interned in Ludwigsburg until June 13, 1946 . The Spruchkammer Munich I classified him on April 30, 1947 in group V ("exonerated"). From December 3, 1947, he was employed by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior , and on September 1, 1948, he was once again made an official for life as a government director . On October 31, 1955, he was retired as a ministerial director .

Naming problem

Kääb used his third first name Artur as the exclusive nickname or author's name . Accordingly, his writings were named Dr. Artur Kääb publishes.

Fonts (selection)

  • With Erich Liebermann von Sonnenberg: The Reich Registration Order. Illustrated hand edition with a foreword by the Chief of the Ordnungspolizei, SS-Obergruppenführer and Police General Daluege , Kommunalschriften-Verlag J.Jehle, Munich - Berlin, 1938
  • With Erich Liebermann von Sonnenberg: The People's Index: A Handbook , Kommunalschriften-Verlag J.Jehle, Munich - Berlin, 1939 (extended editions with preface Daluege 1940 and 1942)
  • The police regulations of the Reichsminister , Polizeirecht - Collection of police regulations under Reich law, Verlag für Recht und Verwaltung GmbH, Berlin, 1941

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On Kääb's name problem, see Joachim Lilla: III. Police: 1. The heads of the state police administrations (police directors or police chiefs). Police Directorate (1936: Police Headquarters) Munich: Police Presidents , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945 (January 21, 2013, accessed May 20, 2020); Kääb, Artur , index entry: Deutsche Biographie, https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd1011253291.html (accessed May 20, 2020); Götz Aly, Karl Heinz Roth: The complete recording: census, identification, weeding out in National Socialism , Rotbuch, Berlin 1984. See: Joachim Lilla: Kääb, Hans , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria 1918 to 1945 , URL: < https://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/kaeaeb-hans > (January 21, 2013, accessed May 20, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Kääb, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kääb, Hans Willibald Artur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Maroldsweisach
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1982
Place of death Munich