Erhard Mäding

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Erhard Mäding (born May 1, 1909 in Dresden , † November 30, 1998 in Cologne ) worked as a German administrative lawyer in the areas of spatial and landscape planning and local government.

Life

Mäding joined the Young German Order in 1923 . He studied biology, geography and law in Leipzig and Hamburg. As a member of the AStA in Leipzig, he was in conflict with the National Socialist student union and was in charge of the “academic self-help” program for unemployed academics. He passed the 2nd state examination in law in 1935 and then worked in the Saxon administrative service. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 he became a member of the SS , from the same year he worked (still a student) for the SD . At the turn of the year 1936/1937 he became head of the “Life Areas” department in the SD upper section of the Elbe. On April 2, 1937 , Mäding received his doctorate on the subject of the status of the NSDAP under constitutional law . From 1941 he worked as a consultant for landscape planning at the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of the German Volkstum under Konrad Meyer . In 1944, Mäding achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer in the SS. He was involved in drawing up the general plan for the East and an arrangement for National Socialist landscape planning in the eastern regions. From 1944 he headed Section III A 3 (Constitution and Administration) in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). In 1947/48, Mäding euphemistically formulated that the General Plan East had "meant a significant upgrading of the areas in question and thus a significant improvement in the standard of living of the residents, including those of the Polish people who remained in them."

In his book Landespflege (1942), Mäding linked the term “ landscape ” with the folk concept “ living space ”:

"The evaluation and design of today's landscape can only be related to the German people, for whom it should be a biologically healthy living space, home for all time."

After the war, Mäding was an appraiser and board member of the communal community center for administrative simplification (KGSt) and author of numerous specialist publications on the concept of public tasks, urban development planning and administrative geography.

Works (selection)

  • Statistical and administrative investigations into the structure of the eastern areas. DFG-funded project on the General Plan East, 1941–1942
  • Establishment of principles for the rural reorganization of the old empire with regard to the tasks of consolidating German nationality in the new settlement areas. DFG-funded project on the General Plan East, 1942–1943

literature

  • Anette Reisch: The contribution of Erhard Mäding to the institutionalization of the land maintenance with special consideration of its constitutional conditions in the Third Reich . Diploma thesis at the Institute for Landscape Economics, Technical University Berlin , 1990
  • Loreen Lindner: Landscape picture and landscape design in Germany at the time of National Socialism. History of ideas and ideological backgrounds based on two important landscape planners of National Socialism: Heinrich Friedrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann and Erhard Mäding . Project work at the Chair of Landscape Ecology at the Technical University of Munich , Freising 2004
  • Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003. ISBN 3-930908-75-1
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carsten Schreiber: Elite in Hidden. Ideology and regional domination practice of the security service of the SS and its network using the example of Saxony. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 3486585436 , p. 405.
  2. ^ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: After 1945: acquittal for the Nazi planners. In: Exhibition "Science, Planning, Displacement". Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
  3. ^ Erhard Mäding: Landespflege. The design of the landscape as sovereign right and sovereign duty . Deutsche Landbuchhandlung, Berlin 1942, p. 136.
  4. ^ "New settlement areas" is a euphemism for the areas conquered in the east after the expulsion or murder of the previous residents.
personal data
SURNAME Mading, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1998
Place of death Cologne