Josef Krämer (politician, 1904)

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Josef Kramer

Josef Krämer (born January 30, 1904 in Heiderjahnsfeld, † December 25, 1980 in Cologne ) was a German politician of the NSDAP .

Life

After schooling studied shopkeeper from 1923 to 1926 jurisprudence in Cologne and received his doctorate in 1928 for Dr. jur. In 1925 he was chairman of the Cologne student body, in 1926 head of the West Germany district of the German student body and university policy officer in the Windthorstbund , the youth organization of the German Center Party . From 1931 to 1941 he was a lawyer in Cologne.

In 1931, Krämer became radicalized, joined the SA and on September 1, 1931, joined the NSDAP. In April 1933 he was appointed district leader in Cologne city. From 1933 onwards, Krämer was Gauführer in the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) and later Gauobmann there. From 1933 he was a city councilor, from 1934 to 1943 councilor of the "Hanseatic City of Cologne", which was renamed in October 1935. In 1938 he was chief legal officer of the Cologne-Aachen district. Furthermore, in 1933, Krämer was one of the founding members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law by Hans Franks .

After Kramer had a candidate unsuccessful in the general election on March 29, 1936, he entered on December 9, 1940 at replacement candidate for the deceased deputies Karl Georg Schmidt as a deputy in the Nazi Reichstag one in which he held until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 represented constituency 32 (Baden).

From April 1941 he was in the Wehrmacht . In occupied Poland he became the successor of Heinz Werner Schwender Kreishauptmann in the district of Łowicz in the district of Warsaw under the governor Ludwig Fischer on October 26, 1942 . After him, Claus Peter Volkmann became district chief in Łowicz , because from May 1, 1943, Krämer became city ​​governor of the capital of the General Government of Krakow , where the district governors changed from Richard Wendler to Ludwig Losacker and Curt Ludwig Ehrenreich von Burgsdorff . At the end of the war he was still deputy district leader of the NSDAP in Hameln .

After the war he worked under a false name at the Feldschlößchen brewery in Braunschweig until his arrest on September 30, 1945 . On April 27, 1946, Krämer was sentenced to seven years in prison by the British Military Court of Braunschweig for war crimes and was released early on April 22, 1950. During the denazification on September 20, 1951, he was classified as a minor (III), but he was able to work again as a lawyer in Cologne. On February 26, 1960, the Hanover public prosecutor's office closed a case against the district chiefs' involvement in the Nazi crimes in occupied Poland .

Fonts

  • The special protection of property accessories in the event of attachment . Cologne 1928. (Dissertation) DNB 570479223

literature

  • Michael Löffelsender: Cologne Lawyers in National Socialism (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century. Volume 88). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015.
  • E. Kienast (Ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, fourth electoral period. R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short biography by Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 485
  2. ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law, 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 255
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiderjahnsfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1980
Place of death Cologne