Ernst Boepple

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Ernst Boepple (born November 30, 1887 in Betzingen , † December 15, 1950 in Krakow ) was a German publisher in Munich and State Secretary in the Government General during the Second World War .

Life

Boepple finished his school career at the grammar school in Reutlingen in 1905 with the Abitur . He then completed language and history studies at the universities of Tübingen , Paris , Oxford and London until 1910 . Boepple received his doctorate in 1916. phil. From 1912 he served as a one-year volunteer in the German Army and then entered the Württemberg school service, where he was employed until 1920 with a war-related break. Boepple took part in the First World War as an infantry officer and retired from the army in 1919 as first lieutenant .

From 1918 Boepple belonged to the Pan-German Association . As an employee of the Munich publisher Julius Friedrich Lehmann , he was a co-founder of the German Workers' Party (DAP) in 1919 with membership number 15 , which was later renamed the NSDAP . Later Boepple was one of the co-founders of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund .

On April 1, 1919, Lehmann founded the Deutsche Volksverlag with the aim of publishing emphatically anti-Semitic writings and handed the publishing house over to Boepple. The address of the Deutsches Volksverlag was Paul-Heyse-Str. 9 second floor. In 1919 the Deutsche Volksverlag published Anton Drexler's My Political Awakening . The Deutsche Volksverlag also published numerous early writings by the National Socialist chief ideologist Alfred Rosenberg and, from 1924, the magazine Der Weltkampf , which he edited and which was later taken over by the Hoheneichen-Verlag .

On November 9, 1923, Boepple took part in the Hitler putsch in Munich. The Völkische observers as banned Nazi Party following the failed Hitler putsch until February 26 1925th To circumvent this ban, Boepple acted as one of six shareholders in the Großdeutsche Zeitung , which was published from January 29 to May 22, 1924. After the re-establishment of the NSDAP, Boepple immediately rejoined this party ( membership number 36,000).

Civil service career

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Boepple entered the civil service as a civil servant in the fall of 1933 and was employed in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture. In early March 1934 he was appointed to the State Council. In 1934 he also became a member of the SS (SS no. 166.838) and on April 20, 1935, he achieved the rank of SS Oberführer . After the death of Hans Schemm , he was the managing minister of education in Bavaria in 1935/36, and from 1937 State Secretary and representative of the minister. After a falling out with Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , Boepple was given a forced leave of absence at the end of September 1939. In 1940 he left the Ministry of Culture. He then did military service after the beginning of the Second World War.

From September 1941 Boepple was second State Secretary after Josef Bühler under Hans Frank in the Generalgouvernement. Boepple was one of the main leaders of the occupied Poland realized Holocaust . From January 1942, Boepple was also deputy to President Hans Frank at the Institute for German Eastern Labor in Krakow. As a representative of Hans Frank, Boepple was also a member of the board of trustees of the German Language Archives . From August 1944 to January 1945 he was Hans Frank's liaison with the Gauleiters in Lower and Upper Silesia . In the final phase of the war he worked again in the Bavarian ministerial administration in 1945.

After the end of the war he officially resigned from the Bavarian civil service on July 5, 1945 and was arrested by members of the US Army . Boepple was transferred to Poland by the American occupation authorities in mid-October 1947. There he was sentenced to death by a Polish court in Krakow on December 14, 1949 and hanged on December 15, 1950.

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  2. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lilla: Boepple, Ernst , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945
  3. ↑ a b Hellmuth Auerbach: Hitler's political apprenticeship years and the Munich Society 1919-1923 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 25 (1977), issue 1, p. 7. ( PDF )
  4. ^ Ernst Piper : Alfred Rosenberg: Hitler's chief ideologist . Blessing, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89667-148-0 , p. 44.
  5. ^ Paul Hoser: Right-wing extremism (20th century). In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . February 1, 2012, accessed March 8, 2012 .
  6. ^ Paul Hoser: Großdeutsche Zeitung. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . February 28, 2011, accessed March 8, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 26.
  8. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 60.
  9. ↑ Gerd Simon: Eberhard Zwirner and the> German Language Archive <in the Third Reich (PDF file; 962 kB), p. 12
  10. ^ Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 946
personal data
SURNAME Boepple, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist, publisher, State Secretary in the Generalgouvernement
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Betzingen
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1950
Place of death Krakow