German resettlement trust

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Arthur Greiser (right) and Heinz Reinefarth greet the millionth resettler in Litzmannstadt (Lodz) on March 17, 1944 .

The German resettlement Treuhand GmbH (DUT) was on November 3, 1939 as a limited liability company established. It was their job to look after resettlers in terms of property rights and to grant loans. It thus fulfilled partial tasks in the plan to concentrate all ethnic Germans who lived in southern and eastern Europe in the Greater German Reich . The DUT worked closely with the “ Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle ” (VOMI) founded by Heinrich Himmler .

organization

The DUT was subordinate to the Reich Commissioner for the consolidation of German nationality , headed by Heinrich Himmler . Heinrich Bredenbreuker was director of the DUT from autumn 1939 to 1943. Kurt Kleinschmidt was the second director at his side until the end of the war . The 1940 annual report identified the following members of the supervisory board, thus documenting the relationship to the SS and the party as well as the character of an authority under private law:

Section 8 of the articles of association also states: "Any election to the supervisory board will only take effect if the Reichsführer SS has given its consent."

The DUT had branches in Poznan , Litzmannstadt (baggage center), Danzig , Lublin and Katowice .

Action

Approximately 600,000 Germans from the Baltic States, Poland , France , South Tyrol and the Soviet Union were resettled in areas that had been incorporated into the Reich by the German authorities after the occupation of Poland .

In cooperation with the SS, the main trust center in the east confiscated trading companies, handicraft businesses and real estate belonging to members of the former Polish state in the imperial districts of Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland in order to enable the settlers declared as German to settle . Millions of people were forcibly displaced to make way for these German settlers; this was organized by the central office for migrants . Most of the Poles were brought to Germany for forced labor , the rest moved to the newly formed Generalgouvernement .

With the management of part of the seized goods Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , the real estate company for the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia mbH was commissioned. In this connection, the DUT was commissioned by the Reich Governor to sell the goods to ethnic Germans and was authorized to deal with real estate. For the purchase, "assets left behind in the country of origin" were taken into account through compensation notices; possibly received the DUT one in the Land Registry registered mortgage . Incidental acquisition costs such as court costs , writing fees and property transfer tax were generally waived, and notary fees were reduced to 20%. The resale or leasing of the acquired property without the consent of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity was excluded for five years with a contractual penalty .

To finance the operations of the DUT, Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank led a consortium that provided 100 million Reichsmarks for the relocation work of this organization .

Resettled from Latvia October 1939 to June 1941

The resettlement Treuhand AG (UTAG, lett .: Fiduciāra izceļošanas akciju sabiedrība) was in accordance with the German-Latvian resettlement agreement of 30 October 1939 liquidation of the evacuees in Latvia formally abandoned property and to represent them before authorities and courts, as Latvian joint-stock company, but it was actually a subsidiary of the DUT. The UTAG began its activities in Riga in November 1939 with several German-Latvian commissions with equal representation, one of which also had to agree on the cultural assets to be taken or left behind. In some cases, it concluded global agreements with the Latvian State Agricultural Bank for the real estate and, via DUT, with the credit bank, which took over the land on a flat-rate basis. Settlement activity of UTAG was in June 1940 by the invasion of the Red Army stopped. New treaties had to be concluded with the USSR (1941).

literature

  • Dietrich André Loeber: Dictated option. The resettlement of the Baltic Germans from Estonia and Latvia 1939–1941. Documentation. Collaborative Research Center “Scandinavia- u. Baltic Sea Region Research "at the University of Kiel. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1972, ISBN 3-529-06142-5 , p. 346 ff.
  • Arveds Švābe (Red.): Latvju Enciklopēdija. Volume 3: Piejavs - Žvīgule-Mača. Apgāds Trīs Zvaigznes, Stockholm 1955, p. 2539 (reprint. Antēra, Riga 2005, ISBN 9984-719-37-5 ).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives, R 186/37 Collection of Volkstum and Resettlement, 4 Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhand-Gesellschaft: Letter from the State Secretary z. b. V. in the Foreign Office Wilhelm Keppler to Himmler on the establishment of the DUT, November 3, 1939
  2. ^ Ingo Loose: Loans for Nazi crimes. The German credit institutions in Poland and the robbery of the Polish and Jewish population 1939–1945 (= Studies on Contemporary History. Vol. 75). Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58331-1 , p. 247, (available online: here ).
  3. ↑ a b The guard tower
  4. ↑ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism , Springer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783834985156 , p. 73
  5. ↑ BALTENDEUTSCHE. Moscow paid . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1961 ( online ).
  6. ↑ actually: Ordinance on the treatment of assets of the members of the former Polish state of September 17, 1940, published in the Reichsgesetzblatt 1940, pp. 1270–1286
  7. ↑ Circular of the Reich Minister for Finance and the Reich Minister of the Interior of May 14, 1940, Section A i 1 b, in: Reichssteuerblatt p. 534; Implementing ordinance of the Reich Minister of Justice of May 27, 1940, in: Deutsche Justiz p. 623
  8. ^ Baltic Historical Commission .