Georg Bellmann

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Dr. Georg Bellmann

Georg Bellmann (born October 13, 1891 in Somsdorf , † July 15, 1946 in Moscow ) was a German politician ( DVP ), business lawyer and legal advisor.

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After attending the Oberrealschule in Chemnitz and the Progymnasium in Tharandt , Bellmann studied law and political science at the universities of Leipzig and Erlangen . Since the summer of 1913 he was a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli ( German Choir ).

From 1914 to 1918 Bellmann took part in the First World War as a reserve lieutenant with the 19th and 32nd Bavarian infantry regiments . When he returned home, he completed his studies in Erlangen in 1920 with a doctorate as a Dr. rer. pole. from. From April 1920 to 1921 Bellmann worked as a scientific unskilled worker in the management of the Association of Employers in the Saxon Textile Industry, on whose executive board he was accepted in November 1921.

After the end of the war he was a member of the Epp Freikorps . Around 1919 Bellmann joined the German People's Party (DVP). In the election of September 1930 Bellmann was elected to the fifth Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . After "intrigues, internal party hierarchies" and the economic situation had already worn Bellmann down, the dispute over an emergency ordinance passed in mid-1931 finally prompted him to resign in June 1931. He justified his move to the party executive by stating that he was no longer able to “support the last decisions [of the] Reich parliamentary group.” Bellmann's mandate was then taken over by his party colleague Alfred Baum for the rest of the legislative period . In 1933, shortly before the party imposed a membership ban on May 1, 1933 and no longer accepted any new members , Bellmann joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 2.105.319). In the mid-1930s he was entrusted with the post of general manager of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK, also known as the Chamber of Commerce ; from 1942 Gauwirtschaftskammer ) in Saxony, which he held until the chamber was dissolved in 1945. In the course of his work at the head of the Saxon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bellmann became, according to the historian Carsten Schreiber, “Saxony's leading association official [and] chief Aryan ”. Due to the close links between the IHK and the Schutzstaffel (SS), Bellmann was accepted as a member of this organization, in which he achieved the rank of Obersturmführer . In personal union he was also an employee for “commercial economy” at the SD -leitabschnitt under Karl Tschierschky .

After the Red Army marched into Saxony, Bellmann was arrested in Dresden and taken to Lefortowo prison . On June 10, 1946, a military college of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death under Articles 17, 58-11 and Ukaz 43 . After his petition for clemency was rejected, he was shot together with Werner Schmiedel in Moscow on July 15, 1946 . The reason for Bellmann's conviction is likely to be related to the use of slave labor in his jurisdiction.

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  • Germany and the Washington International Working Time Convention , Dresden 1924.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , short biographies on the enclosed CD, p. 39 there.
  2. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 146
  3. ↑ Werner Bramke / Ulrich Hess: Economy and Society in Saxony in the 20th Century , 1998, p. 165.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Richter: Die deutsche Volkspartei 1918–1933 , 2002, p. 712.
  5. ↑ Carsten Schreiber: Elite im Verborgenen , 2008, p. 201.
  6. ↑ Carsten Schreiber: Elite im Verborgenen , 2008, p. 423.
  7. ^ Andreas Hilger : Soviet Justice and War Crimes. Documents on the convictions of German prisoners of war, 1941–1949 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte Vol. 54, 2006, Issue 3, p. 477 ( PDF ).
  8. ↑ Jörg Ludwig: Foreign and Forced Labor in Saxony 1939–1945 , 2002, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Bellmann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP), MdR, business lawyer and legal advisor
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Somsdorf
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1946
Place of death Moscow