Eberhard Westerkamp

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Eberhard Karl Ludwig Westerkamp (born September 30, 1903 in Osnabrück , † June 27, 1980 ) was a German lawyer, National Socialist, State Secretary and official of the German Red Cross .

Life

Westerkamp attended the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück from 1913 to 1922 and completed his school career with the Abitur . He then studied law and political science at the Universities of Marburg , Munich , Münster and Göttingen . He finished his studies in 1926 with the first and in 1929 with the second state examination . Westerkamp was politically active in several ethnic organizations, for example he was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , the Heimatbund "Widukind", the Großdeutscher Jugendbund and the Jungnationalen Bund . Since 1930 he was married to Agnes, nee Schoeller. The couple had five children.

Westerkamp started his professional life as a government assessor in Geestemünde at the Wesermünde district administrator and then worked for the Lebus district administrator in Seelow . In 1932 he moved to the Prussian State Ministry and worked for the Prussian Building and Finance Directorate. Westerkamp was promoted to government councilor in 1933. By the end of September 1933 at the latest, Westerkamp was initially acting and then officially as district administrator in Osnabrück. Westerkamp joined the SA in 1933 . In July 1937 Westerkamp became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 4,279,514). After the break-up of Czechoslovakia, he moved from Osnabrück to the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as Oberlandrat in Brno in May 1939 .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Westerkamp was from October 1940 to January 1942 the main department head of the main administration office in the German-occupied Generalgouvernement (GG). Westerkamp resigned at his own request and officially resigned from State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart's position in the GG. At the end of January 1942 he had already told the Higher SS and Police Leader Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, among other things, that "certain methods and excesses in dealing with the Jewish problem [...] give him headaches". He then switched to the Wehrmacht , where he said he was a member of the 3rd Panzer Army from July 1942 to July 1944 . In the Wehrmacht he reached the rank of first lieutenant . In February 1945 Westerkamp was still a manager in the government in Waldenburg , Silesia .

After the end of the war, Westerkamp worked as a farmer in Burg Gretesch until 1948 . Westerkamp was a witness of the defense in the OKW trial during the Nuremberg trials in May 1948 . After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , Westerkamp was appointed to the Board of Directors in 1949 and from 1953 worked as an authorized signatory at a fine paper factory. From 1956 to 1959 Westerkamp was State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior. He then worked as a resident lawyer and in 1963 became President of the German Red Cross at the Lower Saxony State Association.

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  1. ↑ a b Who is who ?: Das deutsche Who's Who , Volume 16, Arani, 1970, p. 1429
  2. ^ A b Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 398f.
  3. ↑ a b Eberhard Westerkamp in the online version of the edition files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
  4. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 671f.
  5. ↑ a b Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 955
  6. ^ Andreas Bauer: Studies on Law and Contemporary History , Universitätsverlag Osnabrück, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89971-216-1 , p. 197.
  7. ↑ a b Excerpts from the testimony of Eberhard Westerkamp in the OKW trial on May 11, 1948
  8. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 71, April 11, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Westerkamp, ​​Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westerkamp, ​​Eberhard Karl Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, state secretary and functionary of the Red Cross
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1980