Johannes Schäfer (politician, 1903)
Johannes Schäfer (born December 14, 1903 in Leipzig ; † April 28, 1993 in Bielefeld ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), SS leader and, after the Second World War, temporarily employed by the BND .
Live and act
In his youth, Schäfer attended the 4th high school (1910-1914) and the Schiller Realgymnasium in Leipzig (1914-1920). From 1920 to 1923 he completed a commercial apprenticeship in drug and chemical wholesale. From 1923 to 1925 Schäfer belonged to the 9th Company of Infantry Regiment 11 in Leipzig as an officer candidate . During this time he also attended the army technical school of this regiment in Leipzig (up to the lower class).
From 1926 to 1930, Schäfer held various positions in the wholesale business. In 1926, Schäfer joined the NSDAP (membership number 49,889). In the fighting formation of the party, the SA , he held the rank of Standartenführer from February 1930. After he became unemployed in 1930, he worked as an unskilled worker in the Gau leadership of the NSDAP in Gau Halle-Merseburg from 1932. In 1933 he stayed as SA-Oberführer in Magdeburg , Editharing 15.
From November 1932 to March 1936 Schäfer was a member of the NSDAP in the Reichstag, in which he represented constituency 10 (Merseburg). As a member of parliament, Schäfer voted, among other things, for the Enabling Act introduced by the Hitler government in March 1933, which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship. In the SA he was promoted to Oberführer at that time (May 1933) . In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he ran again, but received no more mandate. After working as a savings bank employee from 1934 to 1938, he became a criminal detective candidate in Cologne.
With the rank of SS brigade leader , Schäfer was SS section leader in Danzig and chief of the police there. On July 3, 1939, he set up the " SS-Guard Eimann " in Danzig . From November 1939 to June 22, 1940, Schäfer served as police chief of the city of Łódź in German-occupied Poland . In February 1940 he had the city's Jewish ghetto set up. From 1942 to 1945 he was in the war with the Waffen SS .
After the end of the war, Schäfer worked as a "Hans Schäfer" representative in Lower Saxony from 1945 to 1953 and for the BND in the 1950s .
literature
Non-fiction books:
- Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
Autobiographical text, written by the daughter and a journalist
- Ingeburg Schäfer, Susanne Klockmann: Mother never liked Himmler: The story of an SS family . Rowohlt, 1999, ISBN 3-498-00600-2 .
Web links
- Johannes Schäfer in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Johannes Schäfer in the files of the Reich Chancellery
Individual evidence
- ^ Sascha Feuchert : Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz / Litzmannstadt , 2007, p. 413. The date of death given as October 23, 1943 from Martin Schumacher: MdR 1994, p. 411 is not plausible due to Schäfer's biography. Date of death (April 28, 1993) and place (Bielefeld) for Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 524.
- ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 524.
- ↑ Sascha Feuchert: The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto / Litzmannstadt. 2007, p. 360.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schäfer, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR, police officer and SS leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1993 |
| Place of death | Bielefeld |