Erich Neumann (State Secretary)

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Erich Neumann
Neumann in the minutes of the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942

Erich Neumann (born May 31, 1892 in Forst (Lausitz) ; † March 23, 1951 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was State Secretary in Hermann Göring's authority for the four-year plan during the time of National Socialism .

Neumann took part in the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. According to the protocol, on behalf of the four-year planning authority, he called for Jewish workers to be deported from war-essential factories only if they could find a replacement. At that time, this corresponded to the agreement between the Reich Security Main Office and the Economic Armaments Office of the OKW . Adolf Eichmann's deportation guidelines of January 31, 1942 accordingly provided for an exception for German Jews in armaments factories and agriculture.

Life

Neumann was born in Forst (Niederlausitz) in a Protestant family as the son of a factory owner. After graduating from high school, Neumann studied law and economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1911 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig and later to the Friedrichs University in Halle . From 1914 to 1917 he took part in the First World War, most recently as a first lieutenant .

In October 1920 he became a government assessor in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, then in the Essen district . From October 1923 he was promoted to the government council. In December 1924 he took up a job as an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry. November 1926 to 1928 he was District Administrator of the district Frey town in Lower Silesia , then in October 1928 as Ministerialrat again in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry. As a business expert, Neumann had the task of representing Germany at international conferences. In September 1932, Neumann was appointed Ministerialdirektor in the Prussian State Ministry, responsible for administrative reforms. In September 1933 he also took on the role of secretary in the Prussian State Council .

Previously a member of the DNVP , Neumann joined the NSDAP in May 1933 ( membership number 2.645.024) after the National Socialists' victory in the Reichstag election in March 1933 and the SS in August 1934 (membership number 222.014). Neumann was assigned to the staff of the SS main office; on September 13, 1936 he was promoted to Obersturmbannführer . At the end of 1935 he worked in the Prussian State Ministry and from October 1936 in the four-year planning authority. Here he headed the foreign exchange business group . This business group was not affected by organizational changes within the four-year plan authority until 1939. Neumann's duties in this position included general business affairs for all six groups as well as inter-group connections. He was also involved in drawing up the relevant laws and ordinances. As early as 1935 he had headed a group for Göring that was supposed to assess the general internal and external economic situation. In July 1938 Neumann became State Secretary and representative of Paul Körner . His tasks included the further "Aryanization" of the economy and labeling the Jews. In 1939 he received the honorary rank of SS-Oberführer .

In the course of preparations for war against the Soviet Union, Neumann also dealt with questions of agricultural production in the countries to be conquered. In a lecture on April 19, 1941 at the Administrative Academy in Berlin, he assumed that, due to a lack of animal feed imports, these conquered areas would no longer be able to produce surpluses and would therefore become subsidy areas . The text of the presentation was written by his personal advisor, Professor Otto Donner . On May 2, 1941, this topic regarding the Soviet Union was also the subject of a discussion by Neumann, Paul Körner and Herbert Backe . Also from 1941 he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Kontinentalen Erdöl AG for the exploitation of the oil deposits in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union .

From August 1942 Neumann became General Director of the German Potash Indicate . Ministerialdirigent Friedrich Gramsch took over his position as head of the foreign exchange business group . In 1945 he was interned, from which he was released in early 1948 due to illness.

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  1. ↑ a b Erich Neumann in the online version of the edition files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic death day according to GAP death certificate.
  2. ↑ Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, p. 14. In: Peter Longerich, The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942. Planning and beginning of the genocide of European Jews (publications by the Memorial and Educational Center House of the Wannsee Conference 7), Berlin 1998 , ISBN 3-89468-250-7 , appendix.
  3. ↑ Christian Gerlach: The Wannsee Conference, the fate of the German Jews and Hitler's fundamental political decision to murder all Jews in Europe , in: WerkstattGeschichte 18/1997, pp. 7–44, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Gerlach, p. 38.
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 35, 838.
  6. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener , Who is it ?, Berlin 1935.
  7. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener, Who is it ?, Berlin 1935.
  8. ↑ Ralf Banken, Edelmetallmangel und Großraubwirtschaft, Berlin 2009, p. 727.
  9. ^ Ludwig Münz, Carl Lehmann, Guide through the authorities and organizations, Berlin 1934, p. 62; Herrmann AL Degener, Who is it ?, Berlin 1935.
  10. ↑ SS personnel chancellery: SS seniority list of the NSDAP protection staff, as of December 1, 1937, Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1937.
  11. ^ Ralf Banken: Edelmetallmangel und Großraubwirtschaft , Berlin 2009, p. 257.
  12. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt / Main 2005, pp. 432-433.
  13. ↑ Götz Aly , Susanne Heim : Vordenker der Vernichtung , Frankfurt 1993, p. 63.
  14. ↑ Götz Aly, Susanne Heim, ibid, p. 370.
  15. ↑ Götz Aly, Susanne Heim, ibid, p. 504.
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Secretary in the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Forst (Lausitz)
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1951
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen