Hubert Kühl

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Hubert cooling (* 27. March 1903 in Zettin , district Rummelsburg i Pom..  ; † 20th December 1942 in Biala Podlaska ) was a German editor and District Chief for the period of National Socialism in the General Government .

Life

Kühl finished his school career at high school with the Abitur . He then began studying law at the University of Munich , which he broke off. At that time he was chairman of the German University Ring . Afterwards, Kühl was among other things managing director of the Bühnenvolksbund and the East Prussian stage. Between 1929 and 1933, Kühl was unemployed.

He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 244.932) in early February 1930. In 1931, Kühl became a member of the SA and rose there in 1934 to the position of Sturmbannführer. From May 1933 to the beginning of 1934, Kühl worked as an editor at Lichtbild-Bühne . Since April 10, 1934, Kühl was a government advisor in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

After the outbreak of World War II , Kühl was head of the district in Biała Podlaska in the Lublin district from late November 1939 until his death . In this function, he arranged for the ghettoization of Jews in his district and ordered severe punishments for those Jews who evaded this measure. In December 1942, Kühl and his wife were shot by partisans . The advisor in the internal administration of the Generalgouvernement and later district chief Heinz Doering reported in a letter on January 10, 1943: “He shot five Poles and his wife four Poles without authorization !! Not in self-defense or in combat, but like that. If somebody plays the hangman, one needn't be surprised about anything. "

literature

  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 , p. 388.
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2009. ISBN 9783835304772 , p. 502.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 388.
  2. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 289.
  3. ^ Letter Doering, quoted in Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Cool, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Zettin
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1942
Place of death at Biała Podlaska