Herbert Boettcher

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Herbert Boettcher
Böttcher's announcement about the execution of Polish hostages. Radom , March 1, 1944

Herbert Kurt Böttcher (born April 24, 1907 in Prökuls , Memel district , † June 12, 1950 in Radom ) was a German administrative lawyer , police president and SS and police leader .

Life

Böttcher, whose father Otto Böttcher (1872–1932) was the state president of the Memel Directorate from 1931 to 1932, finished his school career at the Luisengymnasium Memel . After passing his Abitur, he studied law at the Albertus University of Königsberg , the University of Munich and the University of Vienna . In 1925 he became active in the Corps Littuania . After being in 1929 Königsberg had passed the first state examination, doctorate he attended the University of Leipzig in 1931 for Dr. iur. After passing the second state examination in 1933 in Berlin , he returned to Memelland and settled in Memel as a lawyer and notary . On February 6, 1934, he married Marlene Gunkel (born August 20, 1907 in Celle).

He was involved in the socialist national community of the Memel area . A Lithuanian court sentenced him for “subversive activity” and he was imprisoned in 1934/35 and from 1935 to 1937. After serving his first sentence, he was elected to the Seimelis as a member of the Memelland Unified List in the fifth electoral term. In January 1939, Böttcher became regional director in the Memelland directorate, and in March 1939 he was acting police chief in Memel .

Böttcher became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 7.093.097) and the SS (SS number 323.036) in the spring of 1939 . From August 1, 1939 to March 15, 1941, he led the 105th SS standard "Northeast" in Memel. From October 1940 he was police chief in Kassel , from the beginning of 1942 SS and police leader in Kauen . He came to Radom at the end of April 1942 in the same position . There he was responsible for the deportation of more than 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp . After the death of Franz Kutschera , Böttcher took over his office in Warsaw for a week. From November 1944 Böttcher was deployed as major general of the police in Königsberg .

After the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Böttcher was arrested by the British military police and interned in the Gadeland and Neuengamme camps. He was extradited to Poland by the British in 1947 . In Radom he was sentenced to death on June 18, 1949 and executed a year later .

Fonts

  • The collision of Memelland private law with Lithuanian private law ... , Inaugural dissertation, Leipzig, L. Seidel successor, 1931 OCLC 16211133

Awards

Böttcher's SS and police ranks
date rank
March 1939 SS-Sturmbannführer
August 1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer
October 1941 SS standard leader
April 1943 SS-Oberführer
November 1943 Police Colonel
November 1944 SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police

literature

  • Israel Gutman (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust - The persecution and murder of European Jews , Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1998, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East-Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 . Volume 2: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovakia, Carpathian Ukraine, Croatia, Memelland Landtag, Silesian Landtag. Comparative Analysis , Documentation-Verlag, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 .
  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 100.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest , Copenhagen 1991, p. 734 f.
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 85 , 843.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The collision of the Memelland private law with the Lithuanian private law .
  4. ↑ a b Encyclopedia of the Holocaust . Munich 1998, vol. 1, p. 234.
  5. ^ A b Gunnar Richter : Die Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Kassel 1933–1945, in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History (ZHG) Volume 106 (2001), pp. 229–270.
  6. ↑ Herbert Böttcher at www.dws-xip.p.
  7. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 61.
  8. ↑ Timm C. Richter: War and crime: situation and intention: case studies , Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, 2006, p. 132.
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böttcher, Herbert Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, police president and SS and police leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Prokuls , Memel district
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1950
Place of death Radome