Friedrich Egen
Friedrich Egen (born January 27, 1903 in Marschalkenzimmern ; † January 18, 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer at the time of National Socialism .
Life
After finishing his school career, Egen attended the theological seminar in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren from 1917 and began studying theology at the University of Tübingen in 1921 . Just one year later he turned around and began studying law in Tübingen , which he completed in 1925 at the University of Berlin with the first state examination in law. After his clerkship, he passed in 1928, the second state examination and received his doctorate in the meantime 1926. Dr. jur. In the autumn of 1928 Egen became deputy head of the Göppingen Oberamt and was promoted to the government council there the following year . From autumn 1932 to spring 1933 he was then acting head of the Vaihingen district office . From March 1933, Egen headed the traffic department at the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior and was promoted to the senior government council in 1939. At the beginning of May 1933, Egen became a member of the NSDAP .
After the outbreak of World War II , Egen was city governor of Radom in German-occupied Poland from mid-September 1939 . He also held the post of district chief in Sandomierz . In Radom District of the General Government Egen was from mid-December 1939 to July 1942 and again from September 1943 to December 1944 District Chief of Radom country. Under the district governors of the Radom district, Karl Lasch and Ernst Kundt , Egen acted as vice governor and head of the district office there from the beginning of January 1940. Egen was promoted to Ministerial Counselor in 1943 .
After the war ended, Egen was arrested at the beginning of November 1945 and on December 18, 1946 , transferred to the People's Republic of Poland in accordance with the Moscow Declaration that National Socialist criminals were to be transferred to the site of their crimes . Egen received a twelve-year prison sentence from the Radom District Court on September 28, 1948. The judgment was based on Egen's senior positions in the Radom district. Egen, who was supported by the “Legal Protection Agency for Germans Abroad of the Evangelical Church's Relief Organization ” during his imprisonment , came back to Germany in 1956. The Stuttgart public prosecutor's office was also investigating Egen because of his activities in the Generalgouvernement; the proceedings were discontinued when Egen died.
Fonts
- The Reich Road Traffic Regulations with introductory ordinance, execution instructions, d. Württ. Implementing regulations u. the Motor Vehicle Act , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1934.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .
- Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Egen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Short biography by Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 469.
- ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 338.
- ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 340.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Egen, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marshal rooms |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th January 1974 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |