Hans Puvogel

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Hans Puvogel (born September 25, 1911 in Bremen ; † June 11, 1999 ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). He had been Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice since 1976 and had to resign after the National Socialist - racial ideological content of his dissertation in the Puvogel affair in 1978 became known.

Life

Origin, youth, studies, time of National Socialism

Hans Puvogel came from a farming family that has lived in Achim near Bremen since the 17th century ; he was the son of the family farmer Georg Puvogel (1880-1947). He attended the New Gymnasium in Bremen and graduated from high school there. He then studied law in Tübingen , Munich and Göttingen . Since 1930 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen . In the time of National Socialism he passed the trainee exam in 1934 and the assessor exam in 1937. In the same year Puvogel his doctorate at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the Georg-August-University of Goettingen in the Nazi-politically active law professor Karl Siegert with the work The senior basic idea in the emasculation of dangerous sex offenders to Dr. jur. In his doctoral thesis , Puvogel advocated euthanasia and regretted the "underdeveloped understanding of the people for the 'extermination of [...] because of inferiority for all useless people by killing'"

“Only a racially valuable person has a right to exist within the community. A person who is useless and even harmful to the community because of his inferiority is to be eliminated. [...] Whether the people can already show understanding for the elimination of the inferior may remain open [...] The great task itself must not be hampered by any petty disputes over competence and paralyzed in its effectiveness [...]. "

- Hans Puvogel

For those “inferior” who should not be “eliminated” immediately, Puvogel at least provided for castration , especially if they were of Jewish origin:

“If one also considers that the legislature makes the promotion of a healthy race by the eradication of inferior and criminal elements a matter of great concern, then we believe with full right that emasculation is a further means besides sterilization in the struggle for the racial interests of ours People should be used. "

- Hans Puvogel

He became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 (membership number: 4,182,837). He had been a member of the SA since 1934 , where he served as Rottenführer and was awarded the SA military badge .

From 1937 to 1939 Puvogel worked as an associate lawyer in Hanover . During the Second World War , Puvogel did military service from 1940 to 1945. He then spent a year in captivity in Belgium .

Post-war, professional and political activity

In 1947 Puvogel settled in Achim as a lawyer and notary and founded a law firm there . In addition, he was politically active; since 1959 he was a member of the council of the city of Achim and of the district council of the district of Verden . In 1962 he became a member of the CDU. He was longtime district administrator of the district of Verden. From 1963 to 1978 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the 5th to 8th  electoral term , from 1967 to 1975 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. In 1976 his son joined his father's law and notary office in Achim.

He was a member of the association committee of the Stade Electricity Association in Bremen. Puvogel was married and had two children.

Lower Saxony Minister of Justice, Puvogel affair and resignation

On May 12, 1976, Puvogel was appointed Minister of Justice of Lower Saxony to the state government led by Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht . When the content of his dissertation became known to a broad public in 1978, a political affair broke out: Puvogel did not distance himself from his statements at the time, but instead publicly insisted on them. The legal historian and judge at the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig (OLG), Helmut Kramer , then sent excerpts from Puvogel's work to some colleagues without comment, which ultimately led to Puvogel's resignation as Minister of Justice on March 24, 1978 and his dismissal on April 4, 1978. Puvogel remained, however, district administrator of the district of Verden.

Shortly afterwards, on the instructions of Prime Minister Albrecht, the President of the OLG Braunschweig, Rudolf Wassermann , initiated formal disciplinary proceedings against Kramer for sending the dissertation excerpts. Kramer was accused of having "violated his duty to behave respectably towards a superior". The proceedings were discontinued, but contained the explicit determination of a breach of duty by Kramer . The "so disciplined Helmut Kramer" was then transferred to a civil senate.

Honors

Puvogel was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 3, 1973 .

Publications (selection)

  • The guiding principles in the emasculation of dangerous moral criminals. Nolte, Düsseldorf 1937 (also dissertation, University of Göttingen 1937).
  • Festblatt der Bauern-Kör of the citizenry in Thedinghausen issued on the occasion of the festive meeting in the "town hall" Schröder. In Thedinghausen, Schulstrasse 17, on Thursday, February 26, 1981. With a speech by District Administrator Dr. Hans Puvogel (Verden) to commemorate the creation of the former Brunswick exclave Thedinghausen three hundred years ago 1681–1981. Thedinghausen 1981 (with: Kurt Asendorf ).

See also

literature

  • Eckart Spoo : Impositions. Jahn and Puvogel, for example. In: Wolfgang Bittner , Hasso Düvel, Werner Holtfort , Eckart Spoo (eds.): Sturmfest und erderwachsen. Black stories about Ernst Albrecht and the CDU. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1980, ISBN 3-88243-010-9 , pp. 57-63.
  • Burkhard Jellonnek: homosexuals under the swastika. The persecution of homosexuals in the Third Reich. Schöningh, Paderborn 1990, ISBN 3-506-77482-4 , pp. 142f. ( Schöningh Collection on Past and Present ; online at Google Books ).
  • Thomas Blanke, editorial department of critical justice (ed.): The legal processing of the injustice state. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5054-7 , p. 415.
  • Paul Cummins: A Letter to Hans Puvogel. In: Marguerite M. Striar (Ed.): Beyond lament. Poets of the world bearing witness to the Holocaust. Northwestern University Press, Evanston (Illinois / USA) 1998, ISBN 0-8101-1556-5 , p. 421 (English; online at Google Books).
  • Ashley Montagu : Man's most dangerous myth. The fallacy of race. 6th edition. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek (California / USA) 1998, ISBN 0-8039-4648-1 , p. 53 (English; online at Google Books).
  • Susanne zur Nieden : Homophobia and reasons of state. In: Susanne zur Nieden (Ed.): Homosexuality and Staatsräson. Masculinity, homophobia and politics in Germany 1900–1945. Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37749-7 , pp. 38, 42 ( history and gender , vol. 46; online at Google books).
  • Susanne zur Nieden: The homosexual public enemy - the story of an idea. In: Lutz Raphael , Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (Hrsg.): Ideas as a social shaping force in modern Europe. Contributions to a renewed intellectual history. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57786-7 , p. 418 ( Ordnungssysteme. Studies on the history of ideas in the modern age , vol. 20; online at Google books).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 39 , 990
  2. ^ Lieselotte Steveling: Lawyers in Münster. A contribution to the history of the law and political science faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster / Westf. Lit Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4084-0 , pp. 400–401 ( Contributions to the history of sociology , vol. 10; also dissertation, University of Münster 1998; online at Google books ).
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Thomas Blanke, Redaktion Kritische Justiz (ed.): The legal processing of the injustice state. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5054-7 , p. 415, footnote 9 ( online at Google books).
  4. ↑ Hans Puvogel: The leading basic ideas in emasculating dangerous moral criminals. Nolte, Düsseldorf 1937, p. 34 (also dissertation, University of Göttingen 1937; here quoted from: Ingo Müller : Furchtbare Juristen. 9th edition. Kindler, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-463-40038-3 , pp. 133-134) .
  5. ↑ Hans Puvogel: The leading basic ideas in emasculating dangerous moral criminals. Nolte, Düsseldorf 1937, p. 34 (also dissertation, University of Göttingen 1937; quoted here from: Gerhard Henschel : Scherzende Sittenpolizisten. Humiliation, club blows on the genitals, boot kicks in the abdomen, sterilization, castration, mutilation. Insights into the sexual anti-Semitism of the National Socialists . In: jungle world No. 44, supplement dossier , of October 30, 2008, pp. 19f .; accessed on September 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony (PDF file; 90 kB), Landtag printed matter 16/4667, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Ingo Müller : Hold up the mirror to German types of judges. Appreciation to Helmut Kramer for the awarding of the Hans Litten Prize of the VDJ on November 26, 1994 in Hamburg . On: Website of the Association of Democratic Jurists (VDJ); accessed on August 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Puvogel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1999