Hermann Senkowsky

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Hermann Robert Josef Senkowsky (born July 31, 1897 in Scheibbs , Lower Austria , † April 5, 1965 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian customs officer and SS leader . In addition, he held the post of Finance President in the General Government , so he was de facto Finance Minister in German-occupied Poland. He also became known in Austria through his customs guard regulation for Austria issued in 1928, which is still valid today when modified.

Life

Senkowsky's parents were the notary substitute Robert Alois Senkowsky , who came from Bodenstadt in Moravia, and his wife Margaretha nee. Fanta. He attended elementary school in Scheibbs and in Pöggstall and made the Matura in 1915 at the School St. Pölten . After that he was a volunteer in the replacement battery of the kuk Feldkanonen-Regiment 5, Brno . He returned to active Regiment in the field of Volyn and was promoted in the service as a platoon leader and reconnaissance officer in the 4th battery of field guns Regiment 5. On November 12, 1918, he was now battery commander, in Vienna from the Joint Army fired. From 1919 he studied law and political science at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna . In 1919 he was in the Corps Athesia Innsbruck recipiert . He became a member of the Greater German People's Party . After completing his doctorate in Innsbruck in 1922 , he joined the Vienna Financial Directorate as a civil servant candidate for the higher administrative service and the customs administration. In 1928 its customs guard regulations were published , which, with changes, are still valid in Austria today. A year later he advanced to teaching customs law at the University of World Trade in Vienna and in January 1930 he became Secretary of State. In Vienna he became a member of the Corps Cheruscia in 1929.

On May 20, 1932 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( membership number 1.089.376). On November 9, 1934, Senkowsky had joined the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 310.369) in Austria . In the corporate state (Austria) he was dismissed from service in 1934 because of his membership in the NSDAP and arrested in mid-November 1934 for participating in the July coup . At the end of November 1934, he was released from prison for lack of evidence. He then headed the Office for Economic Affairs in the state management as head of staff. He was arrested at the end of May 1935 for working for the NSDAP and was only released from prison in March 1936. Senkowsky fled to the Nazi state at the end of March 1936 in order to avoid being arrested again for his illegal activities as a National Socialist . It was in May 1936 Reich German and was on 24 August 1936 to March 1937 from the Minister of Finance to the service at the Office SS Gruppenführer Wilhelm Keppler seconded (Reich leadership of the NSDAP).

After the annexation of Austria , in June 1938 he became finance president (customs) at the regional finance president Reichsgau Oberdonau . Shortly afterwards he became chief finance officer in Linz and in December 1938 in Vienna . After various posts in the Ministry of Finance , he was after the Polish campaign the General added, where he served as Finance Minister and later as Director General of the monopolies. With that he was in charge of the financial system in Poland. From January 1, 1942 to January 1945, Senkowsky was SS-Oberführer as President of the Finance Department in the Government of the Generalgouvernement. His inauguration was on January 15, 1942. He was arrested by the Allies after the end of the war , but released after two years after Poland had not filed for extradition for war crimes. After that he was a self-employed importer and exporter, leading the Tyrolean duty-free zone in Innsbruck until his fatal heart attack .

Awards

Senkowsky's SS ranks
date rank
January 1940 SS-Sturmbannführer
November 1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer
April 1941 SS standard leader
November 1944 SS-Oberführer

plant

  • The service pragmatics: Law of 25.1. 1914, RGBl. No. 15, taking into account the until 1.12. Changes that occurred in 1928 with the implementation regulations , publisher Hermann Senkowsky, Verlag Manz, 1929
  • The Austrian customs guard regulation including the relevant laws, ordinances and decrees , author Hermann Senkowsky, Verlag Manz, 1928

See also

literature

  • Highest Nazi officials in the General Government in Poland in the war years 1939-45 , by Towiah Friedman, Publishing House Institute of Documentation in Israel, 2002.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 6/305; 27/49
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 953
  3. ^ Google Booksearch
personal data
SURNAME Senkowsky, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senkowsky, Hermann Robert Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finance President in the General Government
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheibbs
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1965
Place of death innsbruck