August Jäger (lawyer)
August Friedrich Christian Jäger (born August 21, 1887 in Diez ; † June 17, 1949 in Posen ) was a German judge and National Socialist. He was the lawyer of the German Evangelical Church (DEK) and deputy Reich governor in Poznan.
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Jäger was the son of Pastor Anton Jäger (1849–1928), who later led the Evangelical Church in Nassau as General Superintendent. In 1906 he passed the Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in Wiesbaden . He began to study law at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1908 he was reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Munich . He moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War (most recently as a first lieutenant) . Afterwards he was public prosecutor , district judge and (from 1921) district judge at the district court of Wiesbaden . At the beginning of March 1933 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the Sturmabteilung (SA). In the church district of Groß-Wiesbaden he led the German Christians .
In June 1933 Jäger was appointed ministerial director to the Prussian Ministry of Culture and head of the church department there. Furthermore, he was appointed State Commissioner for all regional churches in Prussia for a short period (June 24 to July 14, 1933) , whereby he displayed a ruthless approach. He was also the official administrator for Protestant church affairs in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. On April 19, 1934, Jäger was appointed "legal administrator" of the German Evangelical Church (DEK) by Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller ; With this title he acted as a legally qualified member of the Spiritual Ministry in the Reich Church Administration. The integration of the Württemberg regional church and the Bavarian regional church , which he was instrumental in initiating, failed in autumn 1934. On October 26, 1934, he resigned from his positions as legal administrator of the DEK and in the Prussian Ministry of Culture. In 1936 Jäger became President of the Senate at the Supreme Court .
After the attack on Poland began in 1939, he was appointed deputy head of civil administration in the Warthegau . Later he officiated with the rank of district president as general representative of the Reich governor Arthur Greiser , "in whose rigorous national and church politics he played a significant part". At that time, Jäger, who was referred to as a "church hunter" because of his "pathological church hatred", initiated numerous anti-church measures in the "NS-Mustergau Wartheland". In the SA he reached his highest rank on May 20, 1944 when he was promoted to SA brigade leader.
Shortly after the end of World War II, Jäger was arrested by the British occupation authorities and extradited to Poland on May 25, 1946. There he was brought to court in 1948 as the " executioner of Greater Poland". He was sentenced to death on December 13, 1948 and executed in Poznan on June 17, 1949 .
See also
literature
- Michael Alberti: The persecution and extermination of the Jews in the Reichsgau Wartheland 1939–1945. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05167-1 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Updated 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5: Hitz – Kozub . 2nd Edition. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25035-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 115/1312
- ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 5: Hitz – Kozub. Munich 2006, p. 284.
- ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 280.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunter, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunter, August Friedrich Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and Nazi functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Diez |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1949 |
| Place of death | Poses |