Herbert Reischauer

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Herbert Reischauer (born May 18, 1909 in Erfurt , † February 1945 in Posen ) was a German lawyer and SS leader.

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Reischauer as a participant in the meeting on March 6, 1942

Reischauer holds a degree in law and a doctorate later Dr. jur. Shortly before the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.215.234) and SS (SS number 31.653) in 1932. After graduating, he took up a higher civil service career and was initially a government assessor. From 1933 he headed the legal policy department in the Gaurechtsamt Hessen-Nassau of the NSDAP. He was also a Gaupresse and Gaupropaganda artisan at the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers (BNSDJ) . In 1936 he became an assistant to the Deputy Leader's staff . He was promoted to government councilor in January 1938 as head of training for the Reich leadership of the NSDAP and, in the meantime, as part of the “Anschluss” of Austria from March to July 1938 as an advisor to the “Reich Commissioner for the Reunification of Austria with the Reich” Josef Bürckel . Promoted to the Upper Government Council, he worked from 1940 in the Brown House , the NSDAP party headquarters, in Munich . In March and October 1942, in this function, he took part in the follow-up conferences of the Wannsee Conference on the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” in the Eichmann report . In mid-July 1942 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer , the highest rank he achieved within the SS.

In December 1943 he moved to the Reichsstatthalterei in Reichsgau Wartheland , where, as Herbert Mehlhorn's successor, he headed Department I (General, Internal and Financial Affairs) and was responsible for Jewish policy in the Warthegau. Reischauer "coordinated the logistical support of the second phase of the Kulmhof extermination camp in the spring and summer of 1944." In 1944, he was promoted to senior government director. During the Battle of Poznan , he was in the Poznan Fortress and has been missing since February 1945.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 490
  2. ^ Michael Alberti: The persecution and extermination of the Jews in the Reichsgau Wartheland 1939–1945 ; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05167-5 , p. 59
  3. ↑ Andrea Loew: German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 - September 1941 (= The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 501, note 4
personal data
SURNAME Reischauer, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH February 1945
Place of death Poses