Fritz Schmige

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Fritz Schmige , born as Friedrich Heinrich Schmige , also written Schmiege (* July 17, 1880 in Hagenau , † January 19, 1974 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and district administrator at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Fritz Schmige was born as the son of Johannes Carl Georg Schmige (1852-1911) and his wife Martha Catharina Schmige (1858-1946), née Engelhorn, in the city of Hagenau. Since 1911 he was married to Adelheid Ernesta Ida Maria Pfeffer von Salomon (1891–1987). The couple had several children.

He studied law in Freiburg , Berlin and Königsberg from 1900 to 1904 and received his doctorate in 1908 when he also passed the second state examination. Before the First World War he began his administrative career in Siegen , Münster and Liegnitz . After his war deployment he resigned as a reserve officer and in 1920 became district administrator in East Prussia in the Pillkallen district and in Liegnitz.

Through his grandmother, he became the owner of Armenruh Castle in the Goldberg-Haynau district in 1927 , which he sold to the Silesian Landgesellschaft in 1942.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists bevel was early April 1933 member of the NSDAP ( member number 1690397) and was also a member of the NSKK . From 1933 to 1937 he was district administrator in the district of Hoyerswerda and then in the district of Hirschberg . From 1938 to 1940 Schmige was chairman of the Giant Mountains Association .

After the outbreak of World War II , Schmige became head of the internal administration department in the Lublin district in the German-occupied general government in early January 1940 . In mid-February 1940, he bureau chief in the district of Lublin and in June 1940 Kreishauptmann in Radzyn . At the end of October 1941 he became district administrator in the Braunau district in the Sudetenland and held this post until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, Schmiege was employed for a short time as a legal advisor in the Hessian financial administration in Wiesbaden .

literature

  • 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.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Euler: Ancestors and descendants of the founder of BASF: Kommerzienrat Friedrich Engelhorn (1821–1902) , Mannheimer Morgen, 1986, p. 121
  2. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 502f.
  3. ↑ Helmut Sieber : Schlösser in Schlesien: a manual with 197 recordings , Weidlich, 1971, p. 208
  4. ^ A b Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 393.
  5. ↑ NSKK membership with: Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1925–1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Ed.]: Acta Borussica . New series .), P. 687. The entry there as “Schmi (e) ge, Fritz “is sorted incorrectly.
  6. ↑ http://www.riesengebirgsverein.de/der-riesengebirgsverein/ueber-uns/chronik.html
  7. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 548.
personal data
SURNAME Schmige, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmige, Friedrich Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Haguenau
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1974
Place of death Wiesbaden