Franz Janich

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Franz Janich (born October 5, 1895 in Marienwerder, † after 1967) was a German lawyer and police officer.

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After attending school, Janich studied law . He finished his studies with a doctorate as Dr. jur. He then entered the administrative service as a government assessor. In 1926 he was appointed government councilor , in 1928 senior government councilor and in 1930 ministerial councilor in the police department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. Also in 1930 he was appointed deputy head of the political group in the same department. In this capacity he was involved in the fight against the NSDAP and in the preparation of the emergency ordinances that were issued for this purpose. He was close to the Center Party.

In 1933 Janich was appointed head of the political group in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. In December 1933 he was transferred to the Secret State Police Office, where he was entrusted with the organization and administration of the concentration camps . He joined the SA in mid-1933 , and there is no evidence of party membership in the NSDAP .

On February 15, 1934, he was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture to prepare plans for the productive use of the concentration camp prisoners in the moor camps in the Osnabrück administrative district . But since the party continued to hold him against the National Socialists before 1933, he was dismissed from civil service.

In May 1937 Janich founded a law firm together with Kurt Schönner , which had its seat in Berlin Unter den Linden 38.

In the post-war period, Janich was initially a personnel officer at the Oberpräsidium Düsseldorf . After he was dismissed from civil service there due to his political stress, he worked as a lawyer and notary in Solingen and can still be verified there in 1967.

Janich had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Winfridia Breslau since 1914 .

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Christoph Graf describes Janich's career: “An interesting case of a republican, extraordinarily successful and anti-Nazi career official in a decisive position in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, who apparently changed completely after the Papen putsch and also took over in 1933, even entrusting extremely delicate tasks, even before he left Diels but is removed. Praised by Diels [...] as a legally-minded civil servant, from 1932 onwards, by Republican-minded officers of the Political Police, he was referred to as an opportunist Nazi sympathizer. Probably a typical example of an official mentality that was widespread at the time. "

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  • The misunderstanding in its relationship to error and dissent, especially in relation to contractual relationships , 1917. (Dissertation)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Graf: Political Police. P. 357.
personal data
SURNAME Janich, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH after 1967