Edinger Ancker

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Edinger Ancker during his testimony in the Nuremberg legal process on April 29, 1947

Edinger Ancker (born February 22, 1909 in Kiel , † July 23, 1986 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and SS leader.

Early years

Ancker was the son of a factory owner. He attended high schools in Kiel and Hamburg and passed the Abitur in 1928. He then completed a law degree at the Universities of Hamburg , Vienna and Berlin , which he completed in 1933 with the first state examination in law. After the legal traineeship he entered the civil service as a government trainee and was employed by the government in Schleswig. After passing the second state examination in law, at the end of 1936 he embarked on a higher administrative career and was a government assessor at the Altenkirchen district office and, from spring 1938, a consultant for agricultural issues at the Upper Presidium of the Mark Brandenburg. From January to December 1939 he was employed as an assistant in the personnel department of the Reich Ministry of the Interior .

The NSDAP he was already joined 1930/1931 ( membership number 430258). From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the SA , from which he then switched to the SS (SS no. 139.336). In the SS he reached the rank of Obersturmbannführer in 1943. Furthermore, he belonged to the NSV and temporarily the NSDStB and the NS-Juristenbund .

Second World War

After the beginning of the Second World War , he was a sergeant in the Wehrmacht from December 1939 to May 1940 . After the campaign in the west , he was employed from June 1940 to December 1941 as a personnel and finance officer at the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Arthur Seyß-Inquart . In 1941 Ancker married the daughter of Cornelis Christians Walraven, the police chief of The Hague and from 1943 of Arnhem , Eleonora. The couple had three children. The marriage to the Dutch woman was personally approved by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler .

Ancker as a participant in the meeting on March 6, 1942

In early January 1942, he joined the Martin Bormann subordinate to the Party Chancellery to Munich , where he and his family in the settlement Sonnenwinkel took up residence. In Department III (State Affairs) of the Party Chancellery, he succeeded Gerhard Klopfer as Head of Department IIIA (work area of ​​the Reich Ministry of the Interior) with the areas of administration, nationality, public health, racial issues, local affairs and police matters . Ancker participated in anti-Jewish measures. On March 6, 1942, as a representative of the party chancellery, he and Herbert Reischauer took part in the follow-up conference of the Wannsee conference on the “final solution to the Jewish question” in the Eichmann report , where he spoke out in favor of “not allowing the half-breeds to live forever receive". Initially senior councilor, he was promoted to ministerial council.

From May 1944 to October 1944 Ancker did military service with the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" . Due to a war injury he was then “deployed between Berlin, Munich and the Alpine Gau regions as a liaison officer to the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS”.

After the end of the war

After the end of the war, Ancker was first held as a prisoner of war on May 25, 1945 and then interned by the Allies until February 1946. After that, he said he was employed as a farm laborer. During the Nuremberg trials he was housed in the witness house from March to May 1947 and was interrogated by Robert Kempner . In retrospect, he was unable to explain his involvement in measures to persecute the Nazis, such as his demand to tighten the ordinance on the confiscation of Jewish property. He finally admitted that he would take part in the follow-up conference to the Wannsee Conference, but stated that he could not remember the details. Because of his subordinate position, he was not prosecuted and eventually testified as a witness in the legal process. In Schleswig-Holstein he was denazified in 1948 after a court proceedings . He later lived in Munich and worked as a lawyer. A preliminary investigation against him was finally closed.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bodo Hechelhammer , Susanne Meinl : Secret object Pullach. From the NS model estate to the BND headquarters. Berlin 2014, p. 58
  2. ^ A b Peter Longerich (editor): files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock. Regesten, Volume 3, Munich 1992, p. 182
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 16
  4. ^ Peter Longerich (editor): files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock. Regesten, Volume 3, Munich 1992, p. 266
  5. ↑ Bodo Hechelhammer, Susanne Meinl: Secret object Pullach. From the NS model estate to the BND headquarters. Berlin 2014, p. 59
  6. ↑ Bodo Hechelhammer, Susanne Meinl: Secret object Pullach. From the NS model estate to the BND headquarters. Berlin 2014, p. 105
  7. ↑ a b Bodo Hechelhammer, Susanne Meinl: Secret object Pullach. From the NS model estate to the BND headquarters. Berlin 2014, p. 125
  8. ^ Christiane Kohl : Das Zeugenhaus - Nuremberg 1945: When perpetrators and victims met under one roof. Goldmann, Munich 2005
personal data
SURNAME Ancker, Edinger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1986
Place of death Munich