Helmut Weihenmaier

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Helmut Weihenmaier (born November 28, 1905 in Neresheim ; † February 2, 1995 in Tübingen ) was both district administrator at the time of National Socialism in occupied Poland and later in Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Helmut Weihenmaier was the son of Karl Weihenmaier, mayor of Neresheim . He attended the Protestant high school. He studied from 1924 to 1929 in Tübingen and Berlin law . He passed the second state examination in early 1933. On April 30, 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.254.047) and on November 1, 1933 the SA . He was a lawyer in Nürtingen for a year and then went to the Urach Oberamt as an assessor . There he was official administrator in 1937/38 . In the same function he moved to the district offices in Crailsheim and Esslingen and was also deputy district administrator in Reutlingen in 1938 .

With the establishment of the General Government in Poland, he became Kreishauptmann (KH) in the Zamość district in the Lublin district on October 16, 1939 , his district governors were Friedrich Schmidt until 1940, Ernst Emil Zörner (until 1943) and Richard Wendler (until 1945). Weihenmaier participated in the deportation of Jews to the extermination camps . In April 1941 Weihenmaier had the entire Jewish population, around 8,000 people, resettled from the city of Zamość to the suburb Nowa Osada. The fact that this concentration campaign in overcrowded Jewish residential areas was itself a cause of the spotted fever that then spread there did not mean that the German administration contained the causes, but in September 1941 the KH Weihenmeier banned all contact with the Jewish population and issued residence bans. The first “evacuation” in the Zamość district took place on April 11, 1942, the district officer for “Population and Welfare” (BuF) Oskar Reichwein was instructed by Weihenmaier that the “ final solution to the Jewish question would now begin”. Weihenmaier, on the other hand, denied any involvement of his district administration in the resettlement on November 27, 1962. " He only visited the Belzec extermination camp , which was located in his district, after the" action "had ended."

Weihenmaier's participation in the Zamość campaign carried out by Odilo Globocnik on behalf of Heinrich Himmler , in which German farmers were to be settled in his circle, is not documented. The cooperation of his administrative apparatus was necessary for the resettlement of the Polish population. The action was controversial between the SS and police leader and the district administration and was criticized by Zörner, Weihenmaier's district governor.

Weihenmaier was still a representative of the district administrator in Saarlouis in 1944/1945 and in March / April 1945 at the Reutlingen district office.

After the end of the war, Weihenmaier was interned by the French until July 18, 1945 and arrested again in the spring of 1946 for almost six months. During the denazification he was classified as a follower on July 13, 1948 and was still able to start as an employee in the state service in Württemberg-Hohenzollern , where he was again a senior government councilor in 1949 and finally worked as a government director at the regional council of North Württemberg in the economic department until 1955 . From the autumn of 1955 to 1960 he was a full-time mayor in Tübingen under Mayor Hans Gmelin . From 1960 to 1971 he was district administrator in the Freudenstadt district .

The preliminary investigation initiated in the early 1960s because of his involvement in the Nazi crimes in occupied Poland was closed on July 24, 1974 by the Wiesbaden public prosecutor.

literature

  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 573 .
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 .
  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 .
  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich: Who Was What Before and After 1945? , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003 ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 662.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klee: Personenlexikon , p. 662.
  2. ↑ For Nowa Osada see in the Polish Wikipedia: Nowa Osada (Zamość)
  3. ↑ Musial: civil administration , p. 136.
  4. ↑ Musial: civil administration , p. 140.
  5. ↑ Musial: Zivilverwaltung , p. 260. Musial quotes an interrogation transcript from November 30, 1962.
  6. ↑ Musial: civil administration , p. 261.
  7. ↑ Entnazifizierung documents Bü 11204 in inventory EL 902/17 (Spruchkammer 34 - Nürtingen: administrative file) in the state archive Ludwigsburg .
  8. ^ Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 509. According to Musial, p. 370, charges had been brought.
personal data
SURNAME Weihenmaier, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), district administrator in Freudenstadt
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Neresheim
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1995
Place of death Tübingen