Hubert Karl
Hubert Karl (born November 3, 1907 in Munich ; † unknown) was a German civil engineer and SS functionary.
Live and act
After attending elementary school , Karl completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. In addition, he was taught at a vocational training school. He was then trained from 1923 to 1927 at the State Building School, which he left with distinction.
From 1927 to 1931 Karl worked as a draftsman . After that he was unemployed until 1933. On July 1, 1933, Karl, who had been a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 113.509) and the SS (SS number 1.339) since 1929 , received a position as a civil engineer in the SS administrative office. Shortly afterwards, on November 1, 1933, Karl changed to the position of head of the SS construction office in the Dachau concentration camp , which he held until May 1, 1935. He then moved to the construction department of the SS administration office as a Sturmbannführer.
In the spring of 1938, Karl belonged to a three-person commission together with Theodor Eicke and Oswald Pohl , which traveled to the new area shortly after the annexation of Austria by the German Reich in order to check potential locations for further concentration camps for their suitability. On March 24th, when they visited the area around Flossenbürg and Mauthausen, the three decided to build the Flossenbürg and Mauthausen concentration camps at these locations .
In mid-June 1938, Karl left the SS to switch to the private sector as a site manager. On May 15, 1940 he was drafted into the Waffen-SS as Sturmbannführer of the reserve and commanded as construction manager to Office C II of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office. In the summer of 1940 he was appointed head of the building inspection in Norway, before he took over the position of head of the building inspection of the Waffen-SS and the police for the general government in Krakow from autumn 1941 . In this capacity, he was also the supervisor of the Central Construction Office in Lublin , which at the time was involved in the construction of the Maidanek concentration camp .
On July 15, 1942, Karl was transferred to Berlin , where he took over duties in the CI office of the main economic and administrative office. On September 15, 1942, he was appointed head of construction at the “ Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity ”, i. e. Heinrich Himmler . From the beginning of May 1943 until the collapse of the Nazi regime, he was finally head of the building inspection Reich-Süd of the Waffen-SS.
At the end of the war, Karl was arrested by the Allies and later testified as a witness for the prosecution in the SS Economic and Administrative Office .
literature
- Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination. The economic empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933–1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .
- Johannes Tuchel : Concentration camps: organizational history and function of the inspection of the concentration camps 1934–1938. (= Writings of the Federal Archives, Volume 39). H. Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1902-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul B. Jaskot: The Architecture of Oppression. The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy. 2002, p. 35.
- ↑ Introduction to NMT Case 4 - USA v. Pohl et al. ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www. nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karl, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer and SS functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |