Hans Burkhardt (politician)

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Hans Burkhardt

Hans Burkhardt (born September 13, 1891 in Landsberg am Lech ; † May 28, 1948 in Inowrocław , Poland ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and veterinarian.

Live and act

Youth and Weimar Republic

After attending elementary school in Landsberg and grammar school in Schästlarn and Neuburg, Burkhardt studied veterinary medicine at the University of Munich from 1911 to August 1914 . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, in which he worked with the Alpine Corps and the 1./II. of the 6th Bavarian Foot Artillery Regiment was used. During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Bavarian Military Cross of Merit 1st Class with Swords.

From 1919 to 1933 Burkhardt worked as a veterinarian in Sontra . His doctorate as Dr. med. vet. it submitted in Giessen at the beginning of July 1927 . A.

time of the nationalsocialism

District Administrator in Fulda (1933 to 1939)

A few months after the National Socialists came to power in spring 1933, Burkhardt was appointed District Administrator of the Fulda District in October 1933 ; he had already joined the NSDAP at the beginning of August 1928. He succeeded District Administrator Heinrich von Gagern, who had become unpopular with the National Socialists.

As district administrator, Burkhardt was responsible for the persecution of political dissidents, bans on local magazines and the dissolution of assemblies in the following years. He had extensive registers created in the district with data on people of Jewish origin and ordered the surnames Israel and Sarah to be entered in exit applications. In terms of economic policy, Burkhard was particularly keen to promote the expansion of agriculture on the Rhön .

In his capacity as district administrator, Burkhardt had a seat in the Prussian State Council from 1933 until the dissolution of this body . In addition, due to his function as district administrator, he was a member of the supervisory board of the Fulda regional works, the Kassel state credit institution and the Bad Salzschlirf AG .

Also in 1933 Burkhardt was appointed President of the Provincial Parliament of Hessen-Nassau, of which he had been a simple member since November 1929. From 1930 to 1933 he was also a member of the Kassel municipal parliament. From the summer of 1934 to the end of January 1938, he was Karl Weinrich's deputy head of the Gau Kurhessen. Before that, he had been the Gau inspector of the Hessian Gau leadership from October 1932. In July 1934, Burkhardt joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement for the resigned MP Wilhelm Freiherr von Schorlemer , to which he was a representative of constituency 14 until March 1936 and then from March 1936 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a representative of the Belonged to constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau). Since the end of 1934 he was also a member of the Prussian Provincial Council .

Together with Otto Feuerborn , he wrote a report on the construction of the Rhön, which was added to the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet Zone in 1948 .

In 1939 Burkhardt was replaced as District Administrator in Fulda by Otto Feuerborn. The reason for this was the use of his company car for a private trip.

Activity in the Eastern Administration (1939 to 1944)

After the outbreak of World War II Burkhardt was in German-occupied Poland Kreishauptmann in Kielce in the General Government . In this office he was subordinate to the district governor of Radom Karl Lasch . From the beginning of January 1940, Burkhardt was employed in the newly created Hohensalza district of the Warthegau as district president and district inspector. When he became Gauleiter Arthur Greiser had fallen out, he was in June 1944 in -waiting offset the advanced reason was that his daughter had married in church.

Burkhardt was in Bad Salzschlirf in 1945 and was extradited to Poland in 1945 .

Fonts

  • For transpulvet therapy in diseases of the airways in veterinary practice. Diss. Giessen 1929.
  • Hans Burkhardt (Hrsg.), Otto Feuerborn (Hrsg.): We build on: A performance report on d. Structure in d. Prussia. Rhön after d. As of January 1, 1939. Parzeller, Fulda 1939.

literature

  • Jochen Böhler , Stephan Lehnstaedt (eds.): Violence and everyday life in occupied Poland 1939–1945 (= individual publications by the German Historical Institute Warsaw; 26). Fiber, Osnabrück 2012, ISBN 978-3-938400-70-8 .
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 71.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 94.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Dieter Pelda: The members of the Prussian Communal Parliament in Kassel 1867-1933 (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 22 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 8). Elwert, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-7708-1129-1 , pp. 29-30.
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 463.
  2. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1948 # 8778
  3. Michael Alberti: The persecution and annihilation of Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland 1939–1945 , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05167-1 , p. 64