Friedrich Seemann (lawyer)

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Friedrich Bernhard Seemann (* 5. August 1906 in Oldenburg ; † 24. August 1947 in Czestochowa ) was a German jurist of the Nazi era and District Chief in German-occupied Poland .

Life

Seemann, son of a ministerial official, attended elementary school until 1916 and finished his school career in 1925 with the Abitur . He then studied economics and law at the universities of Tübingen , Munich and Göttingen . He then completed his legal traineeship at courts, administrative departments and lawyers. He passed the second state examination in law in October 1932. Seemann then worked as a salaried attorney and was admitted to the Delmenhorst District Court from February 1933 and later to the Oldenburg District Court . Sailor received his doctorate in 1938 , Dr. jur.

Seemann was a member of the NSDAP from the beginning of November 1931 ( membership number 753.945), but his membership book was not created until October 1933. In July 1933, Seemann became a member of the SA . Politically, he was active as a training speaker, political talker for legal issues and training speaker. He also belonged to the Nazi legal guardian association and was district group leader of this organization in Delmenhorst and Oldenburg-Land. From the summer of 1934 he headed the Delmenhorst legal department, was a member of the board of the Delmenhorst Bar Association and headed the local legal office there. On July 27, 1935 he became councilor of the city of Delmenhorst . From December 1935 he headed the main training center in the Gaurerechtsamt Weser-Ems. In January 1938 he successfully applied to the NSDAP Supreme Court in Munich .

During the Second World War , Seemann was from November 27, 1939 head of the presidential office in the Warsaw District Office in the General Government and from April 1941 head of the Office for Spatial Planning, his superior and governor in Warsaw was Ludwig Fischer . In the district of Warsaw, he took probably initially provisionally the post of District Chief in Siedlce by Friedrich Gercke, who as District Chief for from August 1941 Kałusz in the newly conquered district of Galicia changed. As district chief of Siedlce, he reported on February 4, 1942 about events in his district from January 1942:

“10 Jews were taken away when they left the Jewish residential area without authorization and tried to trade in the market. They were shot while trying to escape. A Jew was about to be arrested in Losice for not giving up his fur. He also fled and was shot. "

In May 1942, Kreishauptmann Seemann ordered the “ Gypsies ” from the Siedlce district to move to the Jewish residential district of Siedlce by June 15, 1942. In August the ghetto was dissolved and the Jews and “Gypsies” deported to the Treblinka extermination camp , where they were murdered.

After the end of the war, Seemann was interned and extradited to the People's Republic of Poland on February 25, 1947, in accordance with the Moscow Declaration that National Socialist criminals were to be transferred to the site of their crimes . Six months later he committed in Polish custody suicide .

Fonts

literature

  • Joseph Wulf : The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , Arani, Berlin 1961, frequently revised. most recently Ullstein 2001
  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 , p. 393
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Short biography from Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 504.
  2. ↑ a b Joseph Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , Berlin 1961, p. 331f.
  3. ↑ According to Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 504, Seemann was a Kreishauptmann in Siedlce from April 1, 1942, and Roth does not mention how the agency was organized from August 1941.
  4. ^ Friedrich Seemann on February 4, 1942 in a monthly report. Quoted from: Joseph Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors. The liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto , Berlin 1961, p. 331.
  5. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 302.
  6. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 354.
personal data
SURNAME Seemann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seemann, Friedrich Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1947
Place of death Czestochowa