Franz Massfeller

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Massfeller as a participant in the conference on the final solution of the Jewish question on March 6, 1942 in the Reich Security Main Office

Franz Massfeller (born February 2, 1902 in Essen , † July 28, 1966 ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official.

Career in National Socialism

Massfeller studied law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and had been a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen since 1922 . After the second state examination in 1928, he entered the Prussian judicial service and, at the time of National Socialism , moved to the Reich Ministry of Justice in 1934 , where he worked in the field of family and race law. In March 1934, in the official organ of the German Justice Department , Massfelder criticized a court ruling that did not allow the marriage to be challenged because of “racial diversity”.

As a district court advisor in the Reich Ministry of Justice, he wrote the commentary on the Blood Protection and Marriage Health Act to keep German blood clean in 1936, together with Arthur Gütt and Herbert Linden . At the Reich Security Main Office he took part in discussions on the final solution to the Jewish question and on August 13, 1941, he was a participant in a conference under the direction of Adolf Eichmann , which was about a "tightening of the concept of Jews". As a higher regional judge, he took part as a representative of the Reich Ministry of Justice in the follow-up conferences to the Wannsee Conference on March 6, 1942 and in the Eichmann department on October 27, 1942 . During the Second World War , he did military service from 1943. Massfeller did not belong to the NSDAP .

Career after the end of the war

Massfeller was denazified in 1949 as "not charged" . During the proceedings, Massfeller was able to present letters of discharge from Josef Hermann Dufhues and State Secretary Otto Lenz : Dufhues had been with Massfeller in the Guestfalia student association , he knew Lenz from working together in the Reich Ministry of Justice. In the Federal Republic of Germany, he worked in the Federal Ministry of Justice from January 1950, initially as a senior government councilor for re-use , after which he headed the department for family and civil status law as a ministerial councilor until 1964 and was also concerned with the law on impunity . Because of its participation in the follow-up discussions after the Wannsee Conference, the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime filed a criminal complaint against Massfeller in 1951 for inciting murder. This time Franz Schlegelberger stood before him protectively. Walter Strauss summarized that after detailed research it was absolutely certain "that his task was limited to asserting the concerns [...] about the intended 'solution of the Jewish question' ...". On May 27, 1961, Massfeller's past hit the headlines again with a publication in Neues Deutschland . Massfeller took early retirement in 1964 at his own request.

Massfeller died on July 28, 1966 as a result of a traffic accident.

Fonts (selection)

  • Blood Protection and Marriage Health Act: Act for the protection of German blood and German honor and law for the protection of the hereditary health of the German people together with implementing ordinances and relevant provisions. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1936 (together with Arthur Gütt and Herbert Linden).
  • The new marriage law of July 6, 1938 and its implementing regulations as well as the amendment to family law of April 12, 1938. Verlag für Standesamtwesen, Berlin 1938.
  • The new Civil Status Act of November 3, 1937 and implementing regulations. Verlag für Standesamtwesen, Berlin 1938 (together with Ernst Brandis ).
  • Latest legislation in civil status. Contains the laws, ordinances and decrees affecting the area of ​​work of the registrar after the cut-off date of February 1, 1939. Verlag für Standesamtwesen, Berlin 1939 (together with Ernst Brandis).
  • The keeping of civil status books in prime examples. Handbook for German registrars and their supervisory authorities. Publishing house for registry offices, Berlin 1939.
  • Civil status law in war. Compilation of the legal regulations e. With num. Sample example Publishing house for registry offices, Berlin 1939.
  • The new civil status and family law together with the nationality regulations for the new German territories. Text output d. new legislation with reference u. Item number fd registry office Hand used Verlag für Standesamtwesen, Berlin 1940 (ed. With Friedrich August Knost).
  • The new family law. Bill on d. Equality of men and women Woman on d. Areas d. bourgeois Right u. about d. Recovery d. Legal entity on d. Areas d. Family law. With official justification, 2 synoptic comparisons ue Einf. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1952.
  • German citizenship law from 1870 to the present. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1953.
  • Civil status law. Personal Status Act u. Implementation Ordinance and all other important provisions. Verlag für Standesamtwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1957 (together with Alexander Koehler).
  • The property law of the Equal Rights Act. Verl. Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf 1957.
  • The Equal Rights Act in the business dealings of credit institutions. German Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1957.
  • Equality and its economic impact. Commerz- u. Credit-Bank, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • The equality law with explanations. Heymann, Berlin / Cologne 1958 (together with Dietrich Reinicke ).
  • All of family law. Collection of all family law. Regulations with notices under special consideration. d. Equal Rights Act. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1958.
  • Civil Status Act. Comment; Basic work. Publishing house for registry offices, Frankfurt am Main 1963 (together with Werner Hoffmann).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Otto Langels: The Rosenburg file. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. In: rbbKultur . July 17, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2020 (audio; 25:53 min).
  2. ↑ Doc. VEJ 1/109 in: Wolf Gruner (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection). Volume 1: German Empire 1933–1937. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58480-6 , p. 312 f.
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 393 f.
  4. ↑ Document VEJ 3/202 in: Andrea Loew (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 (source book). Volume 3: German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, September 1939 – September 1941. Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 501 f.
  5. ^ Manfred Görtemaker , Christoph Safferling : The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69768-5 , p. 22.
  6. ↑ Andrea Loew: German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 – September 1941 (= The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 501, note 5
  7. ^ Rosenburg project of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. ( Memento from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the BMJV , September 14, 2015 / Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling: The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69768-5 , pp. 306 and 309
  8. ^ Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling: The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 9783406697685 , pp. 306–308
  9. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. actual Edition Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 394
personal data
SURNAME Massfeller, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1966