Friedrich Syrup

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Friedrich Syrup, 1927

Friedrich Syrup (born October 9, 1881 in Lüchow (Wendland) / Lower Saxony , † August 31, 1945 in Oranienburg ) was a German lawyer and political specialist (non-party, later NSDAP ). For many years he was President of the German Labor Administration and served briefly as Reich Labor Minister under Kurt von Schleicher in 1932/1933 . From 1936 to 1942 he was responsible for the labor deployment in Germany and held a position of responsibility for the organization of Nazi forced labor until Fritz Sauckel gave him the opportunity took this task out of hand in the spring of 1942 as a “general representative for labor deployment”.

Life

As the son of a post office clerk, he studied mechanical engineering, physics and law and political science in Hanover, Munich and Rostock. In 1905 he joined the Prussian trade supervisory service (until 1918) and during this time he also made a name for himself through various scientific publications on issues of occupational safety and the social situation of the workers. In November 1918 Syrup was delegated by the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry to the Ministry of Demobilization , where it was responsible for reintegrating war participants into working life. From this area of ​​responsibility he created the Reich Employment Agency , whose first president he became in early 1920. From 1927 he was president of the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlungs und unemployment insurance .

On July 16, 1932, Syrup was appointed Reich Commissioner for Voluntary Labor Service (FAD). From December 3, 1932 until Adolf Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933, he was the independent Reich Labor Minister in the Schleicher cabinet . He then returned to his presidency at the Reichsanstalt, which he led as an independent Reich authority until it was incorporated into the Reich Labor Ministry at the end of 1938. In his function as the representative for the four-year plan , Hermann Göring appointed Syrup as head of the work group in 1936. In 1937 Syrup became a member of the NSDAP. On December 20, 1938, a few months after the “Arbeitsscheu Reich” campaign , Syrup ordered the “closed labor deployment” of all unemployed and socially supported Jews in the Reich . In 1939 Syrup was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labor under Franz Seldte and appointed to the Prussian State Council (until 1942). In the spring of 1941 he was in the hunger plan in view of the Operation Barbarossa involved 1,941th On May 2, 1941, seven weeks before the German invasion of the USSR, Syrup took part in a meeting of state secretaries with high Wehrmacht officers “about Barbarossa”, according to whose protocol “the war can only be continued if the entire Wehrmacht is active is fed from Russia in the 3rd year of the war. Without a doubt tens of millions of people will starve to death if we get what we need out of the country. ”In 1941 he suffered a complete collapse, after a long illness he only took up the service temporarily. This was one of the reasons for the appointment of the Gauleiter of Thuringia , Fritz Sauckel , as General Representative for Labor Use (GBA) on March 21, 1942, to whom Syrup was now actually subordinate. In 1942 Syrup was a member of the leadership council of the National Socialist Society for European Economic Planning and Greater Economy , which planned the extensive German domination of Europe “after the victory”.

At the end of the war, Friedrich Syrup stayed in Berlin , although he could have escaped. In June 1945 he was taken to the Soviet special camp 7 on the grounds of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he died after a few weeks.

Works (selection)

  • Astigmatic reflection in the three-axis ellipsoid. Dissertation . University of Rostock, 1905.
  • Selection and adjustment of the workforce in the shoe industry and an Upper Silesian rolling mill. (= Publications of the Association for Social Policy. 153). Munich, 1915.
  • with W. Kieschke: Works Council Act of February 4, 1920 (RGBl. 147) along with the election regulations of February 5, 1920. Berlin, 1920. (6th edition 1928).
  • with Walter Kaskel : Labor Evidence Act: Commentary. (= Pocket book collection of laws. 103). Berlin 1922 (3rd supplement 1925).
  • with Philipp Beisiegel (Ed.): Law on job placement and unemployment insurance: (hand edition with the other regulations on labor and unemployment assistance and the fundamental decisions of the Reich Insurance Office). Loose-leaf edition Berlin 1927 ff.
  • Problems of the labor market and unemployment insurance. Cologne 1930.
  • Order on the distribution of labor from August 28, 1934. Berlin 1934 (3rd edition 1934).
  • with Alexander Wende: The work book. Law on the introduction of a work book of February 26, 1935 with implementing ordinance, implementing provisions and forms. Berlin 1935 (3rd edition 1940).
  • Employment and unemployment assistance in Germany. Berlin 1936.
  • Labor input and job creation. Syrup. Berlin [1939].
  • Work in war and peace. Lecture. (= Publications of the national economic association in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area, main series. NF 10). Essen 1942.

Estates, collections

Manuscripts and unpublished manuscript parts of his book "Hundred Years of State Social Policy" are in a partial estate at the Federal Archives in Koblenz . Another part of the estate with a collection of materials and a manuscript on the history of the labor administration is at the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg . In addition, when there is University of the Federal Employment Agency in Mannheim a "collection of Dr. Friedrich Syrup ”.

Honor

In Koblenz-Rauental a street was named after him. More recently, because of the role of Syrups in the Third Reich, a renaming has been requested.

literature

  • Julius Scheuble (Ed.): Hundred Years of State Social Policy 1839–1939: from the estate of Friedrich Syrup. Arranged by Otto Neuloh . Stuttgart 1957.
  • Dieter G. Maier: Beginnings and breaks in the labor administration up to 1952: at the same time a little-known chapter in German-Jewish history. (= Publication series of the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration. 43). Brühl 2004, ISBN 3-930732-97-1 .
  • Jürgen Nürnberger, Dieter G. Maier: President, Reich Labor Minister, State Secretary: Dr. Friedrich Syrup; President of the Reich Institute for Job Placement and Unemployment Insurance; Life, work, personal bibliography. (= Shaper of labor market policy: bibliography and biography. Volume 1). 2., essential exp. Edition. Ludwigshafen 2007, ISBN 978-3-929153-81-1 . (1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-929153-80-7 ).
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 197 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry by Friedrich Syrup in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Friedrich Syrup | Historical biographies of the Independent Commission of Historians on the history of the Reich Ministry of Labor. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Alex J. Kay : Starving as a Strategy for Mass Murder. The meeting of the German state secretaries on May 2, 1941. In: Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte . Edited by Hans-Heinrich Nolte . Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 81-105, here pp. 81 f. (Quote) u. P. 95 (participants).
  4. ↑ http://www.nachlassdatenbank.de/search.php ? Entry in the “Central Database of Legacies” of the Federal Archives
  5. ↑ http://www.nachlassdatenbank.de/search.php ? Entry in the “Central Database of Legacies” of the Federal Archives
  6. ↑ https://mahnmalkoblenz.de/index.php/informationen-2017/565-ehrung-fuer-den-nazitaeter-friedrich-syrup
personal data
SURNAME Syrup, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüchow (Wendland) , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1945
Place of death Special camp No. 7 Sachsenhausen near Oranienburg