Joachim Duckart

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Joachim Duckart (born June 12, 1898 in Leipzig , † November 14, 1952 in Königswinter ) was a German agricultural scientist , SS leader and participant in the " resettlement " in Lithuania during the Second World War .

Life

Duckart, whose father Rudolf Duckart was Reich Military Judge , finished his school days at the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin-Tiergarten with the Abitur . He participated in the First World War as a volunteer. He then completed a degree in agricultural science at the Agricultural University in Berlin , from which he graduated as a qualified farmer. Duckart received his doctorate in 1923 with the dissertation “Factor Analysis of a Wheat Crossing” as a Dr. agr. Duckart then worked as an expert in seed breeding on farms.

At the time of the Weimar Republic he belonged to the German Social Party and the paramilitary organization Stahlhelm . At the beginning of December 1931 Duckart became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 848.887) and at the beginning of January 1933 of the SS (membership number 137.297). With the SS, Duckart reached the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer in June 1944 . From 1937 Duckart was a member of the Nazi teachers' association .

After the National Socialists came to power , he initially worked as a trainer or, from 1934, the main trainer of the Race and Settlement Main Office (RusHA) in SS Section XIV and at the Reichsnährstand in Berlin. From 1937 Duckart took up a teaching position at the Grenzlandhochschule for female teacher training in Schneidemühl , headed the “Hereditary Science Seminar” and headed the local press office of the National Socialist Lecturer Association . In Schneidemühl he also headed the district office of the NSDAP and worked at the Race Political Office of the NSDAP (RPA). In 1939 Duckart was the author of an anti-Semitic publication published by the RPA and the Reichsbund der Kinderreich with the title: Die Juden von Betsche: A Contribution to the “Work” of Jews in East Germany .

After the beginning of the Second World War, Duckardt initially worked for Higher SS and Police Leader Gdansk-West Prussia Richard Hildebrandt , where he was the representative of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity and a member of the "Planning and Resettlement" department at the SS upper section Vistula for the settlement of Baltic Germans as a result of the agreements of the Hitler-Stalin Pact was responsible. After the outbreak of the German-Soviet War , Duckardt became a leader in the SS Upper Section Ostland and from the beginning of March 1942 head of the Eastern Settlement Staff and was responsible for repatriating those people to Lithuania whose settlement he had previously organized. Duckart pushed the mainstream settlement of ethnic Germans in Lithuania, which resulted in the displacement of the local population. From 1943 Duckart worked at the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Section III B (nationality). As of 1944, Duckart was commissioned again to repatriate the Baltic Germans from Lithuania to the German Reich due to the course of the war and was awarded the War Merit Cross in the same year for his "special achievements" in this regard .

After the end of the war, Duckart was interned in America for several years . After his release from Allied internment, Duckart found a managerial position in a farm in 1949 and worked in an advisory capacity for the Chambers of Agriculture in Bonn and Cologne . He was also Federal Vice President of the Federal Compensation Office .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Hesse: The Professors and Lecturers of the Prussian Pedagogical Academies (1926-1933) and Universities for Teacher Training (1933-1941) , Deutscher Studien Verlag, 1995, p. 244.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, pp. 251f.
  3. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann : Plan and Practice. German settlement policy in occupied Lithuania 1941-1944 . In: Science, Planning, Expulsion: Reorganization Concepts and Resettlement Policy in the 20th Century , Series: Contributions to the History of the German Research Foundation, 1. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08733-8 , p. 106.
  4. ↑ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 365.
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 102.
personal data
SURNAME Duckart, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural scientist and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1952
Place of death Koenigswinter