Dietrich Klagges
Dietrich Klagges (pseudonym Rudolf Berg) (born February 1, 1891 in Herringsen ; † November 12, 1971 in Bad Harzburg ) was a politician of the NSDAP and was appointed Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig from 1933 to 1945 during the National Socialist era .
Youth, professional career and political career
Klagges was the youngest of seven children of a forest ranger. After attending elementary school , he was trained as an elementary school teacher at the teacher training college in Soest and worked as such in Harpen near Bochum from 1911 . During the First World War he was seriously wounded near Neuve-Chapelle in 1916 and was therefore discharged from military service. In 1918 he joined the DNVP , of which he remained a member until 1924. After the war ended, he became a secondary school teacher in Wilster / Holstein in 1918 . After leaving the DNVP, Klagges was for a short time a member of the right-wing extremist Deutschvölkische Freedom Party (DVFP) founded at the end of 1922 , which he soon left to join the NSDAP in 1925 ( membership number 7,646). From 1926 to 1930 he worked as the vice-principal of a middle school in Benneckenstein (Harz) , where from 1928 to 1930 he was also head of the local NSDAP group. Due to his position in the NSDAP, he was dismissed from the Prussian school service during the Weimar Republic in 1930 without any pension claims. In the same year he made his first appearance in the Free State of Braunschweig, where he worked as a propaganda speaker for the NSDAP. In 1933 Klagges was one of the founding members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law by Hans Franks .
Author activity
From 1921 Klagges was active as an author of ethnic , anti-democratic and anti-Semitic writings, which were published in relevant newspapers and the like. Ä. published. For example, he wrote for Die Völkische Schule or Germany's Renewal and was himself the editor of the magazine Nordlicht . His z. T. theological publications such. B. The original gospel of Jesus are shaped by radical religious racism .
In the service of Brunswick
From the local elections in the Free State of Braunschweig on March 1, 1931, the NSDAP emerged, contrary to expectations, only as the third largest party (with 10 seats) behind the SPD and KPD (with a total of 28 seats).
Appointment to the government council
On January 1, 1931, Klagges was appointed by the Minister of the Interior and Culture of the Free State of Braunschweig and also NSDAP member Anton Franzen to the government council in the Ministry of Education. After lengthy political squabbles and intrigues, Franzen had to resign a few months later because of favoring a party member, as was the chairman of the NSDAP parliamentary group, Franz Groh , which triggered a domestic political crisis in the Free State, as a break in the coalition was now threatening.
Election as Minister of State
Due to the immanent crisis in the Free State, Adolf Hitler himself intervened and gave the DNVP an ultimatum , which ultimately led to Klagges being elected Minister of State for the Interior and Popular Education by the Braunschweig State Parliament on September 15, 1931 , and thus a member of the Braunschweig state government ; shortly afterwards, Klagges was elected to the Reichstag in 1932 . As early as 1931, two years before the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Klagges imposed the first professional bans on social democrats and Jews in the state of Braunschweig , including a. Numerous teachers at the Technical University of Braunschweig were also affected.
The naturalization of Adolf Hitler
Hitler gave up his Austrian citizenship in 1925 and has been stateless ever since . "Political friends" tried several times to get him German citizenship. However, this only succeeded in Braunschweig in 1932, when the Free State was the only country of the Weimar Republic in which the NSDAP co-governed and was thus able to control and influence the “naturalization” of Hitler in its own way.
Responsible for this naturalization according to § 14 of the Reich and Citizenship Act, however, was not the city of Braunschweig, but the state, the " Free State of Braunschweig " - in person: Minister of State for the Interior and National Education and NSDAP member Dietrich Klagges. As a government representative of the Free State of Braunschweig, he apparently received a direct commission from the NSDAP party leadership to naturalize Hitler. Joseph Goebbels wrote about this in his diary on February 4, 1932: “Incidentally, this question still has to be resolved shortly. The Fiihrer has to be a citizen in order to run for office. Klagges is tasked with solving this question. "
Professor Hitler
At first, Klagges tried to get Hitler an extraordinary professorship for the constructed chair of "Organic Society and Politics" at the Technical University of Braunschweig . The plan, which is occasionally attributed to Goebbels, provoked bitter resistance from the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament and ultimately failed due to the veto of the German national coalition partners. Hitler's efforts to be naturalized, often mocked, were again the subject of satire.
Government Councilor Hitler
At the suggestion of the DVP deputy Heinrich Wessel , Hitler was finally proposed on February 25 for an appointment to the government council at the state culture and surveying office and he was entrusted with the "handling of the business of a clerk at the Braunschweigische legation in Berlin". The news arrived at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin on the same day: “We are all over the moon,” Goebbels wrote in his diary. On February 26, 1932, Hitler took the oath of office in the Braunschweig embassy. At the same time he received the citizenship of Brunswick , whereby he became a German according to § 1 of the Reich and Citizenship Act. This made possible his candidacy for the presidential election, which he announced on February 22nd .
Shortly afterwards, Klagges stated in the Braunschweigische Landeszeitung :
"If our participation in the government in Braunschweig had not had any further success than the fact that we had given our Führer Adolf Hitler citizenship, this fact alone would have been sufficient to prove the necessity of our participation in the government."
Obviously, Hitler's activities for the Braunschweig embassy in Berlin were exhausted. On February 16, 1933, the now incumbent Chancellor, Adolf Hitler , requested in a short telegram to be released from the Brunswick civil service. He was immediately granted this "with immediate effect".
The relationship between Hitler and Klagges
The effects of this episode on the relationship between Hitler and Klagges are unclear. No reliable primary sources are known for a rift alleged in particular by Ernst-August Roloff . Hitler assessed his work as a Braunschweig government councilor in January 1945 as very successful: "I have brought the country great benefits."
A special proximity to the Nazi leadership also required Prime Minister Klagges to appear outside of his Free State as an exegete of Hitler's four-year plan as early as February 1937 . As can be seen from the files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP, he brought concerns directly to Hitler several times up until the 1940s. This indicates a privileged relationship. There are no files or reliable sources on Hitler's brief visit to Braunschweig on July 17, 1935.
The Free State of Braunschweig after the seizure of power
Almost immediately after January 30, 1933 , the first terrorist acts against politically dissenters took place in Braunschweig, which were followed by others over the years.
Appointment as Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig
On May 6, 1933, Klagges was appointed Minister-President of the Free State of Braunschweig by Reichsstatthalter Wilhelm Loeper , after he had proposed himself for the office. Klagges' clearly formulated goal was to create a model Nazi country. On May 10th, the first book burning took place on Schlossplatz in Braunschweig.
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Klagges' plans for a NS model country had the goal of keeping Braunschweig as independent as possible from the Berlin Nazi dirigism, so that he, Klagges, could continue to operate and rule in his "Reich" as he liked. He strictly refused to integrate the country (and thus its de facto dissolution) into Prussia . Hitler himself had assured Klagges that Braunschweig would be preserved as a cultural center and would not become part of a "Reichsgau Hanover". The state of Braunschweig was also to continue to exist after the war. In order to maintain and expand his own power, Klagges therefore tried to create a new Gau - also to remain independent of Hanover . This " Gau Ostfalen " should have Braunschweig as the Gau capital and himself as Gauleiter . Found support for his plans Klagges in Brunswick educated middle class , the bourgeois middle class , in the Chamber of Commerce and the Evangelical Church.
To this end, Klagges did a number of things to strengthen Braunschweig's political and economic position in Germany: From June 1933, construction began on Dietrich-Klagges-Stadt . He brought important National Socialist institutions to the city, such as B. the academy for youth leadership , the German research institute for aviation , the leadership school of the German craft , the area leader school of the Hitler youth "Peter Frieß" , the Luftflottenkommando 2 , the Reichsjägerhof "Hermann Göring" , the SS-Junkerschule , the SS-Oberabschnitt "middle “As well as the Bernhard Rust University for Teacher Training . Braunschweig's infrastructure benefited from the connection to the newly emerging Reichsautobahn and the Mittelland Canal . Braunschweig became a center for the armament of the Wehrmacht , as important industrial centers developed in the immediate vicinity, namely the Reichswerke Hermann Göring (on whose supervisory board he had been on the supervisory board since 1937) and the Volkswagen factory near Fallersleben .
Persecution of politically dissenters
Hans Reinowski - he fled Germany in 1933 and until then worked as district secretary in the Braunschweig SPD - published the 30-page brochure “ Terror in Braunschweig ” in Zurich in 1933 , which appeared simultaneously in German, English and French. Reinowski's report is one of the earliest documentations of National Socialist atrocities in Braunschweig. He describes the first reprisals of the Nazi regime against politically dissenting people in the city and country of Braunschweig, and others. a. the occupation of the Volksfreund-Haus on March 9, 1933, the “ Stahlhelm Putsch ” of March 27, the murder of SPD politician Matthias Theisen on April 10 and the Rieseberg murders on July 4, 1933 (shortly before the Brochure). Klagges was at least organizationally involved in all of these crimes, if not responsible for their implementation.
Below are a few examples of how and by what means Dietrich Klagges politically disliked people (groups) z. Sometimes persecuted or had persecuted into death (see also the section “The Klagges Trials” below ).
The Rieseberg murders
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Shortly after the seizure of power, the first terrorist actions took place in the city and state of Braunschweig, in which v. a. the so-called "SA auxiliary police" , which had been set up by Klagges himself only for this purpose and only existed for a few months, attracted attention. She reported directly to him. The actions in which Klagges actively supported other high-ranking Nazi politicians, such as B. Friedrich Alpers (Finance and Justice Minister of the Free State) and Friedrich Jeckeln ( Gestapo and Police Leader in Braunschweig) were mainly directed against members of various workers' organizations, the SPD, the KPD , but also against Jews . The measures were carried out with extraordinary brutality. Klagges is responsible for the deaths of at least 25 opponents of the Nazi regime. In this context he also helped to conduct a judicial investigation into the deaths of eleven people who were murdered by members of the SS on July 4, 1933 near the small town of Rieseberg near Königslutter am Elm , about 30 km east of Braunschweig were to be thwarted or suppressed.
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Lawyer and SPD member Ernst Böhme was the democratically elected Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1929 to 1933 .
After the seizure of power, however, he faced increasing repression and growing persecution by Klagges. On March 13, 1933, he ordered Boehme's removal from office and had him taken to the misappropriated building of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK), which the National Socialists called a “ protective custody ” prison. Thanks to the efforts of the former Brunswick Prime Minister Heinrich Jasper , who was also persecuted by Klagges , Böhme was soon released again.
Shortly afterwards, however, Böhme was arrested again, taken to the SPD's former “ Volksfreund ” house , which had meanwhile also been misused , and abused. He was forced to give up a mandate . After his release, Böhme left Braunschweig; he came back in 1945.
On June 1, 1945, Ernst Böhme was appointed Lord Mayor of Braunschweig by the US military government. He held this office until December 17, 1948.
Heinrich Jasper
Attorney and SPD member Heinrich Jasper was a. a. since 1903 city councilor, parliamentary group leader of the SPD in the Braunschweig State Parliament , member of the Weimar National Assembly and between 1919 and 1930 Braunschweig State Minister and several times Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig .
At the instigation of Klagges, Jasper was taken into "protective custody" on March 17, 1933 under a pretext and taken to the AOK building, where he was severely mistreated in order to force him to renounce his mandate, which Jasper refused. He was then taken to the “Volksfreund” house, where he was subjected to further abuse until his provisional release on April 19.
On June 26, 1933, he was arrested again and taken to the Dachau concentration camp , from which he was only released in 1939 under previously unexplained circumstances. Jasper then returned to Braunschweig, but was now under constant surveillance and had to report to the Gestapo every day .
The failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 provided another pretext to arrest Jasper on August 22, 1944. After several concentration camps, he was finally taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1945 , where he is said to have died of typhus on February 19, 1945 .
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August Merges belonged to various left-wing parties, was one of the main actors in the November Revolution in Braunschweig and President of the Socialist Republic of Braunschweig . After 1933 he withdrew from active party work and became involved in the resistance against the Nazi regime .
In April 1935 he was arrested along with other resistance fighters and badly mistreated. He was convicted of treason , imprisoned and released early in 1937 for incapacity for prison. At Klagges' instigation, he was immediately arrested again and taken into “ protective custody ”.
After Merges was released, the Gestapo picked him up repeatedly and imprisoned him for a short period of time. He died as a result of the abuse perpetrated by the Gestapo.
The "Stahlhelm Putsch"
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The so-called "Stahlhelm Putsch" took place on March 27, 1933. Former members of the left-wing Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold , banned by the National Socialists, were to be accepted into the national-conservative Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , on which leadership members of both associations had agreed. Klagges, at that time still minister of the interior, found out about the project and, together with SA, SS ( Friedrich Alpers ) and Herbert Selle , the commander of the police, organized an attack on the assembled people. In this action, which Klagges and the NSDAP used as a propaganda attempt by the Stahlhelm against the ruling Reich government under Adolf Hitler , around 1,400 people were arrested. Sometimes badly mistreated for up to 30 hours and the steel helmet in the Free State of Braunschweig permanently disarmed.
Deportations of Jews and SS
From January 21, 1941, Klagges had the Jews of Braunschweig deported to the concentration camps . In 1944 there were 91,000 forced laborers in the Watenstedt- Salzgitter , Braunschweig and Helmstedt areas . That was the greatest density of labor camps in the German Reich. When the troops of the US allies occupied Braunschweig shortly before the German surrender on April 12, 1945, they freed 61,000 prisoners from the camps.
In his function as SS-Obergruppenführer (SS No. 154.006) (from 1942) he took part in the Gruppenführer conference on October 4, 1943 in Poznan, where Heinrich Himmler gave the first Poznan speech . In addition, Klagges was the "honorary leader" of the 49th SS standard.
Planned assignment as Reich Commissioner
On April 7, 1941, Alfred Rosenberg proposed to set up a Reichskommissariat " Don - Volga " in addition to the Reichskommissariat Ukraine and to appoint Dietrich Klagges as Reichskommissar in Rostov . In May / June Rosenberg changed this suggestion so that he assigned the area there to the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Thus, the planned deployment of Klagges in the newly occupied Eastern Territories became obsolete.
family
Klagges married in 1919 and had five children. During his time as Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig, he and his family lived in a service villa on Löwenwall .
End of war and post-war period
One day after the city of Braunschweig was handed over to representatives of the 30th US Infantry Division of the 9th US Army , Klagges was arrested on April 13, 1945 by the American Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). In 1946 a military court in Bielefeld sentenced him to six years in prison for his crimes in the function of an SS group leader .
The Klagges Trials
The new Attorney General Fritz Bauer , who came to Braunschweig in 1950 and who also acted as a prosecutor 's representative in the Auschwitz trial in the 1960s, played a major role in bringing Klagges to life imprisonment in normal criminal proceedings on April 4, 1950 for the Crimes committed by him as Braunschweig Minister of State and Prime Minister could be convicted - u. a. because of the Rieseberg murders .
However, the Federal Court of Justice overturned this judgment in 1952. In a second trial, in which it could be proven that he was involved in murders , torture , deprivation of liberty, etc. or that he had planned these acts, Klagges' prison sentence was reduced to 15 years.
In his defense, Klagges submitted that he did not know about any of this because he only acted from his desk ; he was deceived by his subordinates about the actual extent of the National Socialist terror.
In 1955, his wife applied for early release from custody without further probation . However, this first application was rejected, as was the one in the following year. In 1957, however, after serving around 80 percent of his prison sentence, Klagges was released and moved with his wife to Bad Harzburg , where, until his death in 1971, he mainly worked as an author of right-wing radicals and maintained contacts with neo-Nazi groups in Lower Saxony .
Successful lawsuit for additional payment of the civil servant's pension
In 1970 Klagges, as a former Prussian or Braunschweig state civil servant, sued for additional payment of his pension , which was finally awarded to him by the Federal Administrative Court in the amount of 100,000 DM .
Fonts (selection)
- What is Marx to us today? JF Lehmann's Verlag, 1921. In the series “Deutschlands Erneuerung”.
- The original gospel of Jesus, the German faith . Meister Ekkehart-Verlag, Wilster 1926, 3rd edition 1933.
- Fight against Marxism . F. Eher Nachf., Munich 1930 (series of publications by the Reich Propaganda Department of the NSDAP, no. 2).
- The Great Depression . F. Eher Nachf., Munich 1930 (series of publications by the Reich Propaganda Department of the NSDAP, no.3).
- Wealth and Social Justice: Basic Questions of National Socialist Economics . Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1932.
- History lessons as national political education . Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1936, 7th edition 1942.
- Rudolf Berg (pseudonym of Dietrich Klagges): accused or plaintiff. The final word in the Klagges trial . Göttingen Publishing House, Göttingen 1954.
- To all the peoples of the earth . Alma-Druck, Stockheim (Kreuzau) 1972.
- A virtue against all deadly sins - the organic worldview . Alma-Druck und Verlag, Bassum-Dimhausen 1974.
literature
- Reinhard Bein : We are marching in Germany. Free State of Braunschweig 1930–1945. Braunschweig 1984.
- Reinhard Bein: Jews in Braunschweig. 1900-1945. Materials on national history. 2nd edition, Braunschweig 1988.
- Reinhard Bein, Bernhardine Vogel: Post-war period. The Braunschweiger Land 1945 to 1950. Materials on the country's history. Braunschweig 1995.
- Reinhard Bein: Resistance in National Socialism - Braunschweig 1930 to 1945. Braunschweig 1985.
- Braunschweiger Zeitung (Ed.): Braunschweiger Zeitung Special: End of the war. No. 2 (2005), Braunschweig 2005.
- Braunschweiger Zeitung (Ed.): Braunschweiger Zeitung Special: How brown was Braunschweig? Hitler and the Free State of Braunschweig. No. 3 (2003), 2nd edition, Braunschweig 2003.
- Braunschweiger Zeitung (Ed.): Braunschweiger Zeitung Special: How Hitler became German. No. 1 (2007), Braunschweig 2007.
- Holger Germann: The political religion of the National Socialist Dietrich Klagges: A contribution to the phenomenology of the Nazi ideology. Frankfurt am Main, 1994.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (Hrsg.): Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (Hrsg.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . 2nd Edition. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 .
- Bernhard Kiekenap : SS Junker School. SA and SS in Braunschweig. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937664-94-1 .
- Helmut Kramer (ed.): Braunschweig under the swastika. Braunschweig 1981.
- Karl-Joachim Krause: Braunschweig between war and peace. The events before and after the capitulation of the city on April 12, 1945. Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-926701-22-6 .
- Dietrich Kuessner : It happened in Braunschweig. Steinweg, Braunschweig o. J. (1988), ISBN 3-925151-32-X , pp. 13-31.
- Dietrich Kuessner: Klagges, Dietrich. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 127 .
- Hans-Ulrich Ludewig : Klagges, Dietrich. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 318-319 .
- Hans-Ulrich Ludewig, Dietrich Kuessner: "So everyone should be warned" - The Braunschweig Special Court 1933–1945. In: Sources and research on the Braunschweig national history. Volume 36, self-published by the Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, Langenhagen 2000.
- Hans Reinowski : Terror in Braunschweig . From the first quarter of Hitler's rule. Report issued by the Commission investigating the situation of political prisoners. Zurich 1933.
- Ernst-August Roloff : Braunschweig and the state of Weimar. Politics, economy and society 1918–1933. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. ) Volume 31, Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Braunschweig 1964.
- Ernst-August Roloff: Bourgeoisie and National Socialism 1930–1933. Braunschweig's way into the Third Reich. Publishing house for literature and current affairs, Hanover 1961.
- Gunnhild Ruben : "Please register me as a subtenant with you" - Hitler and Braunschweig 1932–1935. Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 978-3-8334-0703-1 .
- Eckhard Schimpf : Holy. The escape of the Braunschweig Nazi leader on the Vatican route to South America. Braunschweig 2005, ISBN 3-937664-31-9 .
- Michael Wetter: Dietrich Klagges. In: Reinhard Bein: Hitler's Brunswick staff. döringDRUCK, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-925268-56-4 , pp. 94-103.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dietrich Klagges in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dietrich Klagges in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
- Dietrich Klagges in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Portrait of Klagges
- Newspaper article about Dietrich Klagges in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b quoted from: Manfred Seidenfuß : History didactics (er) under the grip of National Socialism? P. 161, footnote 2
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Reinhard Bein: Jews in Braunschweig. 1900-1945. Materials on national history . 2nd edition, Braunschweig 1988, p. 51
- ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law, 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 254
- ↑ Reich and Citizenship Act
- ↑ quoted from: Rudolf Morsey : Hitler as Braunschweig Government Councilor. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 8 (1960), issue 4, p. 422 ( PDF )
- ^ Walter Görlitz , Alfred Quint: Adolf Hitler. A biography. Stuttgart 1952, p. 335
- ↑ Roloff: Bourgeoisie and National Socialism 1930-1933. 1961, p. 92
- ^ Morsey: Hitler as a Braunschweig government councilor. 1960, p. 440
- ^ Quoted from Morsey: Hitler as a Braunschweig Government Councilor. 1960, p. 440, footnote 32
- ↑ quoted from: Roloff: Bürgertum und Nationalozialismus 1930-1933. 1961, p. 96
- ↑ Gunnhild Ruben : “Please register me as a subtenant with you!” - Hitler and Braunschweig 1932–1935: the explosiveness of Braunschweig naturalization: Hitler's surprise visit in 1935: the Lehndorfer construction house. Norderstedt 2004, p. 92
- ^ Helmut Heiber (ed.): Hitler's situation discussions. Fragments of the minutes of his military conferences 1942–1945. Stuttgart 1962, p. 882.
- ↑ Work in peace and freedom. In: Hamburg Foreign Journal. February 26, 1937 (see 20th century press kit of the German Central Library for Economic Sciences [ZBW], document 0005)
- ↑ Helmut Heiber (editor): The files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Vol. 1, Part 1, Munich 1983, pp. 560, 583, 659, 688
- ^ Helmut Weihsmann : Building under the swastika. Architecture of doom. Promedia Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , pp. 305-324.
- ^ SS Personnel Office: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel, as of December 1, 1937, serial no.26
- ^ Romuald Karmakar : The Himmler project . DVD 2000, Berlin, ISBN 3-89848-719-9
- ↑ Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is heading for a catastrophe ..." The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Munich 2006, pp. 73 and 87 (Fig. 6: Proposals for filling the Reichskommissariate, April to July 1941)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klagges, Dietrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Prime Minister of the State of Braunschweig during the Nazi era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herringsen , today in Bad Sassendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1971 |
| Place of death | Bad Harzburg |