Ernst Heubach (lawyer)

Ernst Julius Gustav Heubach (born August 16, 1897 in Stuttgart ; † June 19, 1978 there ) was a German lawyer, administrative officer and district administrator .

Life

Heubach was a Protestant denomination and the son of a bank director. He attended the Dillmann-secondary school Stuttgart and studied in Berlin , Leipzig and Tübingen law . In Tübingen he became a member of the Ghibellinia Tübingen country team in 1919 . In 1922 he graduated from the first, in 1924, the second higher judicial service examination, and in 1923 he was in Tübingen Dr. iur. PhD . From January 8, 1925 he worked in the Württemberg interior administration at the Maulbronn Oberamt , and in 1927 he became a bailiff. On June 2, 1930, it was used at the Upper Insurance Office.

In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP . From November 6, 1933, he was administrative administrator in the Neckarsulm regional office , and on January 30, 1934, he became district administrator there. From November 1, 1935 to April 19, 1938 he was at the same time (acting) police director and head of the Gestapo branch in Heilbronn . In this function he succeeded the police director Josef Georg Wilhelm (1887–1952), who had been replaced at the instigation of NS district leader Richard Drauz , who had also taken action against NS functionaries who had made themselves liable to prosecution. In contrast to Wilhelm, Heubach had no conflicts with Drauz.

From March 1938 Heubach was active in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, the Heilbronn District Administrator Walther Fuchs became administrative administrator in the Neckarsulm district, which was dissolved on October 1, 1938 and added to the Heilbronn district. After Fuchs changed to the authority of the Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia in Prague , Heubach followed him in Heilbronn and was from October 31, 1939 administrative administrator in the district of Heilbronn, from 1940 district administrator. His successor as (acting) head of the Heilbronn police department was the Ulm administrative lawyer and government councilor Wilhelm Dambacher (1905–1966).

In his function as Heilbronn district administrator, Heubach was involved in the murder of the Pole Aleksander Krześciak by the Secret State Police under the leadership of Friedrich Mußgay on January 8, 1943 near Güglingen .

After the collapse of the Nazi regime, Heubach became the second official in the Wangen district office in April 1945 . At the end of May 1945 he was dismissed from civil service because of NSDAP membership and political activity during the Nazi regime and was interned in Heilbronn and Ludwigsburg from May 1945 to May 1946 . From August 1946 he worked as a construction worker and buyer for a construction company.

From June 1, 1948 he was again employed in the administration and deputy district administrator in Ludwigsburg. On November 24, 1952, he became permanent representative of the district president of North Württemberg in Stuttgart, and on March 30, 1953, he became the state police chief of the Baden-Württemberg police force . On November 30, 1963, he retired.

Awards

Ernst Heubach received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1963 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry of Heubach's dissertation in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
2. ↑ According to the information provided by the Committee for German Unity in 1961, he was a volunteer corps officer and was “full-time in the NSDAP (corps of political leaders) during the Hitler era”. See: Gestapo and SS leaders command the West German police. A documentation of 250 senior police officers in West Germany. Published by the Committee for German Unity, Berlin 1961, p. 39.
3. ^ Anton Heyler: Neckarsulm in the ups and downs of half a century. Chronicle 1900–1950. Welker, Neckarsulm 1955, p. 61.
4. ↑ Susanne Schlösser: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume V: 1939-1945. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2004, ISBN 3-928990-89-6 , p. XXXVIII ( Publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 40.).
5. ^ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn , Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung, signature ZS-13124, entry on Josef Georg Wilhelm in the HEUSS database
6. ↑ Susanne Schlösser: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume IV: 1933-1938. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2001, ISBN 3-928990-77-2 , p. XVII ( Publications of the Archives of the City of Heilbronn . Volume 39.).
7. ^ Anton Heyler: Neckarsulm in the ups and downs of half a century. Chronicle 1900–1950. Welker, Neckarsulm 1955, p. 65.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Udo Grausam: "I did not see the manipulation of hanging because I looked away": Wilhelm Dambacher. In: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Perpetrators helpers free riders. Nazi victims from the Ulm / Neu-Ulm area. (= Perpetrator helper free rider , vol. 2). Klemm + Oelschläger, Münster and Ulm 2013, ISBN 978-3-86281-062-8 , pp. 41–49.
9. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume VI: 1945-1951. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-928990-55-1 , p. 10 ( Publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 34.).

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 316 .