Harry from Craushaar

Harry Georg von Craushaar (born July 10, 1891 in Löbau ; † April 7, 1970 in Hettenhain ) was a German lawyer, SS brigade leader and administrative officer.

Life

He was a son of Löbauer's governor Georg von Craushaar and his wife Maria, née Thode. He finished his school career in 1910 at high school with the Abitur . He studied law at the universities of Oxford, Munich, Freiburg, Kiel and Leipzig.

Craushaar took part in the 1st Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 100 of the Saxon Army in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 . Most recently he was lieutenant in the reserve and, in addition to the two classes of the Iron Cross, had received the Knight's Cross II. Class of the Order of Albrecht with Swords for his services .

From 1921 he was a court assessor in Bautzen. From 1925 he was legation secretary in the Saxon Ministry for Foreign Affairs and from 1927 Saxon envoy in Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden and Hesse. From 1931 he was a government councilor in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. At an unknown time, he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD .

In September 1929 Craushaar married Dorothea Countess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1905-2001), daughter of Constantin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . The marriage had five children, including Götz von Craushaar (* 1932) , who later became a building law scientist .

Craushaar rose to the rank of lieutenant in the Black Reichswehr . He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,450,175) and SA in May 1933. From the SA he switched to the SS in August 1939 (SS no. 347.145). In the SS, Craushaar rose to SS- Brigadführer in November 1943 . Initially, from 1933 Craushaar was governor in Schwarzenberg . In November 1938 Craushaar was also deputy district president in Aussig .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Craushaar headed the civil administration at Army High Command 8 in Litzmannstadt (Lodsch) and was then deputy head of administration at the military commander in Belgium . From November 1943 to January 1945 he was the main department head of the main administration office of the so-called Generalgouvernement (GG) in German-occupied Poland . In addition, from the end of 1944 he held the post of Reich Defense Commissioner in Cracow .

After the withdrawal of the Wehrmacht, Craushaar deserted at the end of January 1945 and hid with his family in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. Before the Soviet invasion, the family fled to the West in June 1945. Craushaar surrendered to the American army , was interned in Kornwestheim , Dachau and Darmstadt and released on May 4, 1948. After the end of the war, his Jauernick estate was expropriated.

From 1955 Craushaar was the managing director of the German Family Association.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048 The time of National Socialism ). Updated edition, 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Bogdan Musiał : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 (2nd unchanged edition, ibid 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 ).
• Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland. 1939–1945 (= publications by the Institute for Contemporary History . Sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 20). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hochkirch: Jauernick Manor. In: Sachsens-Schlösser.de. Retrieved September 18, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Who's who in Germany , Volume 3, Part 1, Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, 1964, p. 279
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945. Stuttgart 1975, p. 946.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Craushaar, Harry Georg von . In: Personalities of the administration. Biographies on German administrative history 1648–1945. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1991, p. 503.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Veit Scherzer : Himmler's military elite. The highly decorated members of the Waffen SS. An evaluation based on the files of the Federal Archives and the National Archives of the USA. Volume 1: A-Ka. Verlag Veit Scherzer, Bayreuth 2014, ISBN 978-3-938845-26-4 , p. 507.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 96f.
7. ^ Jörg Osterloh: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in the Reichsgau Sudetenland 1938–1945 . Munich / Oldenbourg 2006, ISBN 3-486-57980-0 , p. 237.
8. ^ Dorothea von Craushaar: Harry v. Craushaar on Jauernick . In: Adam von Watzdorf (ed.): Book of fate of the Saxon-Thuringian nobility. 1945. From the German aristocratic archives. Volume 1, Starke, Limburg 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0605-9 , pp. 124-144, here pp. 140 f., 144.