Claus Harms (lawyer)

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Claus Harms (born July 30, 1903 in Flensburg ; † 1974 ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Harms completed a law degree , which he completed in 1929 with the first state examination in law. He passed the major state law examination in mid-February 1933. He belonged to the Young German Order from 1923 to 1930 during his student days . At the beginning of February 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 432.510). After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he entered the administrative service and from the beginning of December 1933 initially worked at the police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and soon afterwards as a government assessor for the government in Schleswigor from mid-July 1935 at the Kiel upper presidium. He was also a judge at the Gaugericht. Appointed to the government council at the beginning of May 1937, in September 1937 he moved to the district office of the district of Wetzlar , where he became district manager for local politics. From mid-August 1938 he worked at the Oberpräsidium Koblenz.

During the Second World War Harms end moved in January 1942 to the German-occupied Poland , where he of the Lublin Generalgouvernement first Deputy District Chief in Puławy was. From December 1942 to May 1944 he was district chief in Chełm . In a situation report for April 1943, he complained that "when Jews were evacuated [for murder] only about 50% of all Jews intended for resettlement were recorded". Most recently he was district chief in Krasnystaw from May to July 1944 .

In the Federal Republic of Germany he was in Rhineland-Palatinate "Upper Government and Culture Council" at the Ministry of Agriculture, Viticulture and Forests with the Mainz office .

literature

  • Bogdan Musiał : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd, unv. Ed., Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 .
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 9783835304772 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short biography with Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. 2009, p. 480.
  2. ↑ a b c d Bogdan Musiał: German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Wiesbaden 1999, p. 386
  3. ↑ Quoted in Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 227
personal data
SURNAME Harms, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH 1974