Ernst Féaux de la Croix

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Ernst Féaux de la Croix (born July 27, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 1995 ) was a German lawyer, economist and ministerial official who, after a first career in the Nazi Ministry of Justice , was responsible for reparation issues at the Federal Ministry of Finance (Bonn) between 1953 and 1971 .

Life

After completing his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt am Main, the lawyer Féaux worked from 1934 to 1945 in the international law department of the Reich Ministry of Justice , where he was responsible for the legal status of foreigners and dealing with " foreigners ". From May 1933, Féaux was a member of the NSDAP and was also a member of the SA , the NS-Rechtswahrerbund and the Academy for German Law . In 1938 he was co-author of a memorandum on race, people, state and space , which states, among other things: "Foreign races cannot belong to the German people."

From 1946 he worked in the Regional Food Office in Hamburg, and from 1946 to 1949 he also worked as a tax advisor in a Berlin law firm. Féaux became an employee of the Federal Ministry of Finance in 1949. From 1950 to 1952 he was head of Section VI 4 (legislation on imperial and state assets), and in 1952 also head of Section II B 1 (aid measures for the economy). From 1953 to 1959 he was head of subdivision VB (reparations, liquidation of war, legal affairs) and from 1959 until his retirement in 1971 he was head of division VI (liquidation of war, defense burdens, financial defense affairs, legal affairs). In this function, as a subordinate of State Secretary Karl Maria Hettlage , he was confronted with the reparation claims that Hans Deutsch and others are trying to assert against the Federal Republic. Féaux openly admitted that he saw the global defense of these claims as his main task.

Féaux was co-editor of a presentation on the development of compensation law in the series published by the Federal Ministry of Finance, The reparation of National Socialist injustice by the Federal Republic of Germany . There it says: “Reparation has often been referred to as the price that American Jews allowed their president to accept the Federal Republic as a partner in the community of Western states. It was mentioned in the same breath as the prerequisite for the willingness of the Jews in the world to accept the German economy with its goods as a participant in world trade. Such statements - often shaped by a clear anti-Semitic tendency - were certainly greatly exaggerated in their absolute. However, it cannot be denied that there was a real core behind them. "

Féaux de la Croix is ​​the father of the German diplomat Guy Féaux de la Croix (* 1948).

Awards

Fonts

  • The legal nature of state acts in tax appeal proceedings . Phil. Diss. Frankfurt / Main 1934, Gelnhausen 1934.
  • with Helmut Rumpf: The Development of Compensation Law under National and International Law and Political Aspects (= The reparation of National Socialist injustice by the Federal Republic of Germany. Ed. by Federal Minister of Finance in cooperation with Walter Schwarz , Vol. 3), Munich 1985.

literature

  • Hans-Günter Hockerts (among others): Limits of reparation - Compensation for victims of Nazi persecution in Western and Eastern Europe 1945–2000. Göttingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-835-300-057 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 (updated 2nd edition).
  • Jürgen Lillteicher: The restitution of Jewish property in West Germany after the Second World War - A study of the experience of persecution, the rule of law and politics of the past 1945–1971. Phil. Diss. Freiburg 2002.
  • Christian Pross: Reparation - The guerrilla war against the victims. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , passim.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 145.
  2. ^ Homepage of the German Resistance Study Group 1933–1945 .
  3. ↑ Susanna Schrafstetter: persecution and reparation. Karl M. Hettlage: Employee of Albert Speer and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 3/2008, p. 431 ff., P. 431 ff. (PDF; 419.89 kB).
  4. ↑ Ernst Féaux de la Croix: From injustice to compensation - The way of the compensation right. In: Ernst Féaux de la Croix, Helmut Rumpf: The Development of Compensation Law under National and International Law and Political Aspects (= The reparation of National Socialist injustice by the Federal Republic of Germany. Ed. By Federal Minister of Finance in cooperation with Walter Schwarz, Vol. 3 ). Beck, Munich 1985, pp. 1–118, here p. 10.
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Féaux de la Croix, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, economist and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1995