Area Commissioner

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The term area commissioner was used in the time of National Socialism during the Second World War as an official official title for officials who were active at the head of the administration of a district area. They were roughly on a par with the district administrators or the NSDAP district leaders in the German Reich. The chief inspectors ranked above them. Area commissioners were appointed from 1940 after the military attack against Norway and Denmark in Norway and in 1941 after the military attack against Russia in the civil administrations of the occupied eastern territories in the Reichskommissariat Ostland and Reichskommissariat Ukraine . After 1945 the term was only used in historiography. From today's perspective, the term therefore describes a historical office .

Planning of the East Ministry

On June 28, 1941, six days after the attack on Russia, the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (RMfdbO), the party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg , wrote a report in which he recorded his plans for the "Eastern European area" below the At the level of the Reich Commissioners, 24 general commissioners , including 80 chief commissioners, and including over 900 area commissioners. The staff of the NS-Ordensburg Krössinsee in Pomerania were to undergo “ training and instruction on the overall problem ”.

Leader's Decree of July 17, 1941

A more precise regulation with regard to the commissioning system was made about a month later, on July 17, 1941, with the “Leader's Decree on the Administration of the Newly Occupied Eastern Territories”, which was not published at the time. From this decree it emerges that after the end of the fighting, the administrative tasks are transferred from the military administration to the “civil administration” subordinate to the RMfdbO. According to the decree, the Reich commissariats subordinate to the RMfdbO should be divided into general districts , each headed by a general commissioner , which in turn should be divided into district areas with area commissioners. In addition, it was determined that several district areas can be combined into one main district (managed by a chief commissioner). It can also be seen from Adolf Hitler's Fiihrer decree that, in contrast to the Reich and General Commissioners, the Main and Area Commissioners have been appointed by the RMfdbO: “ The Reich Commissioners and the General Commissioners are the heads of the main departments in the offices of the Reich Commissioners and the Chief Commissioners and area commissioners are from the Reich Minister for the occupied Eastern territories ordered . "

Instructions in the brown folder

Around July / August 1941, the RMfdbO issued a " brown folder " which was developed for the Reich Commissioners and civil administration authorities. Among other things, it reads: “ The general commissioner heads the administration of his district and supervises the main and area commissioners as well as the state administration. As the lower administrative authority, the area commissioner manages his area and supervises the state authorities in the lowest and in the district level . "

Area Commissioners in Norway

Area commissioners in the Reichskommissariat Ostland

Territorial Commissioners in Ukraine

In total, there were at least 114 regional commissioners in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU), who were subordinate to six general commissioners at the regional level.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is driving a catastrophe ..." . The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Munich 2006, p. 83, ISBN 3-89650-213-1 . (Source: Report on the preparatory work on issues relating to Eastern Europe, June 28, 1941, IMT, vol. 26, 1039-PS.)
  2. ↑ a b Martin Moll: "Leader Decrees" 1939–1945 . Edition of all surviving directives in the fields of state, party, economy, occupation policy and military administration issued by Hitler in writing during the Second World War, not printed in the Reichsgesetzblatt. Stuttgart 1997, pp. 186 f., ISBN 3-515-06873-2 . Google Books
  3. ↑ Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is driving a catastrophe ..." . The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Munich 2006, p. 84. (Source: The civil administration in the occupied eastern territories - brown portfolio -, undated, IMT, vol. 26, 1056-PS.)
  4. ^ "The Reich Commissioner in Lithuania", in: Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland, October 17, 1942, p. 10, caption, https://dea.digar.ee/page/deutschezeitungimostland/1942/10/17/10
  5. ↑ "New Area Commissioner for Kiev Land", in: Deutsche Ukraine-Zeitung (DUZ), 11. May 1943, p. 3; https://libraria.ua/en/numbers/875/32226/
  6. ^ Ost-Europa-Markt, 23rd year 1943, issue 5/6, p. 89; https://dspace.ut.ee/bitstream/handle/10062/36270/est_a_5144_23_5_6_ocr.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  7. ↑ Wendy Lower, “Hitler's colonizers in the Ukraine - civil administrators and the Holocaust in Zhitomir”, p. 201, http://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Lower_Wendy/Hitlers_Kolonisatoren_in_der_Ukraine_Zivilverwalter_und_der_Holocaust_in_Shitomir_nim.pdf