Hubert Berkenkamp

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Hubert Berkenkamp (born January 17, 1903 , † 1941 ) was a German political functionary and honorary member of the People's Court .

Berkenkamp ( NSDAP membership number 746.474) acted from 1933 to 1941 as a party functionary with the rank of senior service manager - later a Reichsamtsleiter - as head of the main office III (grace office for party affairs) in the so-called Chancellery of the Führer (also: Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP) with an official seat in Berlin . His successor in this position was Kurt Giese in 1941 .

In 1934 Berkenkamp was appointed as one of 23 honorary members of the 1st Senate at the National Socialist People's Court. After Eberhard Taubert and Hermann Walch , he was the third youngest honorary member of this body. In the SS (membership number 279.016) he achieved at least the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer .

In 1938 Berkenkamp was nominated as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag in the “List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag on April 10, 1938”, but received no mandate.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b After Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads. Who was what in the Third Reich , 1967 p. 54.
  2. ↑ According to Uwe Kaminsky: Euthanasia in front of the court , p. 24. He refers to the testimony of Giese during an interrogation on December 11, 1961.
  3. ↑ dws-xip.pl
  4. ↑ Uwe Kaminsky: Euthanasia in front of court , 2005, p. 23.
  5. ↑ dws-xip.pl
personal data
SURNAME Berkenkamp, ​​Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary and honorary member of the People's Court
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1903
DATE OF DEATH 1941