Joachim Nehring

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Joachim Nehring (born August 12, 1903 in Danzig ; † February 20, 1991 in Grüntal-Frutenhof ( Freudenstadt )) was a German journalist. At the time of National Socialism he was district administrator in German-occupied Poland . In the Federal Republic of Germany he was part of a right-wing extremist public.

Life

Nehring became a member of "Jungbund" in 1919 and was then a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP) until 1922 . He became a member of the Freikorps in 1921 , studied economics and history for three semesters in Dresden and Danzig until 1924, and dropped out. From 1924 to 1927 Nehring was the Danziger correspondent for the Deutsche Zeitung , Deutsche Tageszeitung and Kreuzzeitung , and from 1928 editor of the Deutsche Zeitung in Berlin. From 1933 to 1937 he was employed by the German News Office in Danzig, from where he moved to Königsberg .

He joined the NSDAP in early 1932 and became a member of the SS on June 10, 1933 , in which he rose to SS-Untersturmführer. Until the beginning of 1933 he had been deputy chairman of the German Ostmarkenverein .

After the outbreak of World War II , Nehring was a soldier in the Wehrmacht . With the establishment of the General Government in Poland, from January 1940 he was an advisor in the press office of the Government of the General Government . From May 1941 he was employed by the district chief Egon Höller in the Krakau-Land district. From August 1941 he was deputy of the district chief Wilhelm Rebay in Kamionka Strumiłowa in the district of Galicia , which he replaced in January 1943. The governor in Galicia was Otto Wächter .

That Nehring was informed in advance about the Jewish actions is, as with a number of other district chiefs, documented. As the district chief of Kamionka, Nehring, at the request of the SS and Police Leader Fritz Katzmann , who had carried out the violent evacuation of the ghettos , announced the dissolution of the ghettos in his administrative area on 7 June 1943:

“1 / The Jewish residential districts established in Busk and Sokal on November 10, 1942 on the basis of the police ordinance on the formation of Jewish residential districts in the districts Radom, Krakow and Galicia have been dissolved. This means that the entire area of ​​the Kamionka District Headquarters has become free of Jews . 2 / Thus Jews who are still in the area of ​​the Kamionka Strumilowa District Headquarters, including the former Jewish residential areas, are punished with death in accordance with § 2 and § 3 of the above police ordinance . Likewise, anyone who knowingly gives shelter to a Jew, ie who in particular houses, feeds or hides Jews, is punished. Security police measures will be taken against anyone who becomes aware that a Jew is staying outside a Jewish district without authorization and does not report to the police. "

From June 1944 he looked after Ukrainian nationalists who had fled from the Red Army to Bratislava in Slovakia . At the end of the war, Nehring was a soldier of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Galician No. 1) and was initially taken prisoner. From August 1945 to September 1946 Nehring was in internment custody from which he was able to escape. This enabled him to escape extradition to the People's Republic of Poland in accordance with the Moscow Declaration , according to which National Socialist criminals were to be transferred to the scene of their crimes.

In the Soviet occupation zone his writing Danzig (Beyer, Langensalza 1932) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In 1949 Nehring published the neo-Nazi magazine The Headlight , which was not licensed by the American occupation authorities and was therefore banned in 1950. During the denazification in October 1950, he was classified as an incriminated person by the Munich court of justice and sentenced to four years in a labor camp and a life-long ban on writing. In response to this, Nehring wrote in 1951 the brochure: Neo - Nazism? - The headlight trial before the main court in Munich published. The brochure was 56 pages long and had a black, white and red cover. Nehring noted that “experts ” rated this publication as “a good weapon in the fight against the current system ”.

Nehring was the managing director of the “Federation of German Unity”, published publications and the “information letter” and was the owner of the “Arminius Verlag”. He published the magazine Military Political Forum , which was continued as the National Political Forum from 1956 . From 1955 he was also an employee of the German national newspaper . Among the expellees politicians, he was a representative for Danzig-West Prussia in the “Emergency Administration of the German East” (NDO). He also earned his living as a translator of some French crime novels, which were mainly published by Heyne Verlag , such as the authors Pierre Boileau , François Dormont, Frédéric Dard , Philippe Jullian , Jean Bruce and in 1966 his translation of the Maigret novel Maigret appeared among the anarchists by Georges Simenon . In December 1959, Nehring unsuccessfully asked for political asylum in the GDR after attending a meeting of the National Council of the National Front in East Berlin .

He was in custody from March 19, 1965 to May 26, 1965, and on March 24 he was questioned about his activities in Galicia. A preliminary investigation by the Stade Public Prosecutor's Office from 1978 ended with an acquittal on August 24, 1981 at the Stade Regional Court .

With Otto Ernst Remer he founded "The German Freedom Movement eV" (DDF) in 1983 and became its deputy chairman, but he fell out with Remer and resigned in 1983.

Fonts

  • Black Book Bonn: Fundamentals e. national politics , Freudenstadt-Frutenhof: J. Nehring, 1983.
  • Neo-nazism? The "headlight" trial before the main court in Munich. , E. Hippe: Munich 1951.
  • Danzig , Langensalza: Beyer 1932.
  • Polish networks via Danzig , Berlin-Schöneberg 1932.

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 , pp. 491-492.
  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 .
  • Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short Biography Markus Roth: master race , Göttingen 2009, p 491f.
  2. ^ A b Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. , Munich 1997, p. 418.
  3. ^ Dieter Pohl: persecution of Jews , Munich 1997, p. 285.
  4. ↑ Dieter Pohl: persecution of Jews , Munich 1997, p. 257.
  5. ↑ Joachim Nehring's announcement of June 7, 1943. Quoted in: Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galizien. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives by Berthold Beitz 1941-1944 , Bonn 1996, p. 197.
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-n.html
  7. ↑ For the “Headlight Brochure” see DER SPIEGEL 2/1951
  8. ^ Georges Simenon, Le pendu de Saint-Pholien , 1931, first translated in 1934
  9. ↑ Dieter Pohl: Jews tracking , Munich 1997, p. 244, note 190, and p. 257, note 278.
personal data
SURNAME Nehring, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (DNVP, NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1991
Place of death Grüntal-Frutenhof , Freudenstadt