Hugo Dietrich

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Hugo Dietrich (* December 22, 1896 - † September 27, 1951 ) was a German lawyer and notary . As in-house lawyer in the Flick Group , he prepared an expert report for his employers in June 1938, a few months before the " Reichspogromnacht ", which, in cooperation with the Reich Ministry of Economics and the Office for the four-year plan under the direction of Hermann Göring, provided the legal basis for " Aryanization " Jewish property in National Socialist Germany was used.

biography

Career and Period of National Socialism

Hugo Dietrich received his doctorate in 1921 at Robert Piloty in Würzburg with a work on the solution of the social problem to Dr. jur. et rer. pole. which called for the abolition of testamentary freedom . He was initially a district and regional judge and later became a lawyer and notary at the Berlin Court of Appeal . In 1938 he became an in-house lawyer in the Flick Group, who was formally independent from Friedrich Flick .

On June 10, 1938 Dietrich took along with Flick at the inn of the Berlin Esplanade at the annual general meeting of the Economic Group Iron and steel industry in part, inter alia, by Ernst Poensgen , Wilhelm Kleinmann , Wilhelm pliers , Karl Blessing , Hermann Röchling , Otto Steinbrinck and Herbert Göring was visited, and at which Major General Hermann von Hanneken gave the lecture. On June 20, 1938, Hugo Dietrich prepared an expert opinion on behalf of Friedrich Flick or his general representative Steinbrinck under the title "To the Ignaz Petschek problem ", to examine the legal possibilities of an " Aryanization " of the Petschek company's assets . The first paragraph of this synopsis , a copy of which was sent to the Reich Ministry of Economics and the Office for the Four-Year Plan, read:

"Parag. 1. The agent for the four-year plan can appoint a trustee for any property that is subject to registration under the ordinance on the registration of property of Jews of April 26, 1938, whose powers the agent for the four-year plan stipulates in the deed of appointment. In particular, the trustee can be authorized to dispose of the assets with effect for or against the asset owner for an appropriate consideration. "

- Hugo Dietrich

On March 20, 1944, when changing the articles of association of Friedrich Flick KG , Dietrich was commissioned to define the limited partnership Flick as a family company , "with the aim of keeping the company's business ... permanently in the possession of the Friedrich Flick family". The document was also signed by Flick's eldest son, Otto-Ernst Flick .

post war period

At the Flick trial in 1947, the prosecution brought up the similarity between Dietrich's report of June 1938 and the ordinance on the use of Jewish assets passed on December 3, 1938 , stating:

"The participation of Flick, Steinbrinck and Kaletsch in the draft of a general Aryanization law proves with all desirable clarity their participation in the general process of making life in Germany impossible for Jews."

- From the indictment of the Flick trial

During this Nuremberg follow- up process, Dietrich issued a discharge certificate for Steinbrinck and Flick. The latter claimed to have neither commissioned Dietrich nor to have known its elaboration, although Dietrich's draft signed with Flick's initials was found.

Dietrich died in 1951 and is buried in the Ehrenfriedhof in Lübeck .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Flick Group in the Third Reich. P. 870
  2. ↑ The Flick Group in the Third Reich. Pp. 235-236.
  3. ↑ Thomas Ramge: The Flicks. P. 109. Online partial view
  4. ↑ The Flick Group in the Third Reich. P. 508.
  5. ↑ Thomas Ramge: The Flicks. P. 110. Online partial view
  6. ↑ Further additional information on Friedrich Flick from Dr. Oliver Hirsch

literature

  • Johannes Bähr , Axel Drecoll, Bernhard Gotto, Kim Christian Priemel, Harald Wixforth: The Flick Group in the Third Reich. Published by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 .
  • Manfred Görtemaker , Christoph Safferling : The Rosenburg: The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi past - an inventory . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen. ISBN 978-3-525-30046-6 .
  • Thomas Ramge : The Flicks: a German family story about money, power and politics . Campus Verlag Frankfurt / New York, 2004. ISBN 3-593-37404-8 .
  • Jan Thiessen: Company Purchase and Civil Code . Wissenschafts-Verlag Berlin 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and notary, in-house lawyer of the Flick Group
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1896
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1951