Julius Karg

Julius Karg (born November 13, 1907 in Mannheim , † April 15, 2004 in Mosbach ) was a German civil servant at the time of National Socialism . He was a member of the SS, most recently as SS-Obersturmführer . As a land commissioner in Rappoltsweiler (today: Ribeauvillé) from 1940 to 1942 involved in a corruption scandal during the occupation of Alsace . Despite playing a leading role in the embezzlement of Jewish assets, the post-war justice system gave him a mild trial.

Life

School and education

Julius Karg grew up as the son of a railway inspector in a strictly Catholic family in Mannheim. He spent the four years of the First World War with his grandparents in Mingolsheim , as his father served as a soldier. From 1918 to 1927 he attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim , which he left in 1927 with the Abitur (grade “adequate”). He then did an internship as a pharmacist. However, since this job did not satisfy him, he began to study law at the University of Heidelberg in 1928 . During his studies he joined the Unitas association . He only passed the first state examination in law at the second attempt with the grade "sufficient". This was followed by a traineeship in the civil service in Baden. His dissertation on “Conditions of Sale in the Automobile Trade” was also only given a “rite” in the summer of 1937.

Career during the Nazi era

On July 1, 1933, he joined the SS-Reitersturm after initially paying no attention to National Socialism. In 1934 he switched to the SS intelligence group. While he was mainly regarded as a less gifted but hardworking lawyer in his certificate of service, he was initially considered politically unreliable and intent on his own gain. After joining the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 , he was employed in the civil service. First he became department head at the Säckingen District Office, then he was transferred to the Waldshut District Office, where he was appointed a civil servant for life. From March 1939 to June 1940 he worked in the Freiburg police headquarters and was also a part-time legal advisor to the local SS standard.

After the occupation of Alsace, Karg was appointed Land Commissioner of Rappoltsweiler (today: Ribeauville) by Gauleiter Robert Wagner . In December 1941 he was appointed district administrator. At the same time he was promoted to Obersturmführer in the 123rd SS Standard in Colmar. In addition, he was the liaison leader for HJ-Bann 742 and belonged to the security service of the Reichsführer SS . In the NSDAP district leadership he became district legal officer.

Together with his party comrade, the unscrupulous Walther Kirn , who was appointed district leader by Wagner, he set up a system of black funds in Rapportsweiler , which was mainly fed from the abandoned Jewish assets, but also from other sources of money from people who were racially and politically persecuted embezzled. Karg set up a debt collection department in Rapportsweiler that managed looted objects from the surrounding area, including Arthur Schwartz's fabric store from Markirch, which covered 35,000 running meters, the wine cellar of the manufacturer Carl Schlumberger, and Lucie Heimendinger's fabric store and inventory. In doing so, Karg and Kirn disregarded the regulations that the confiscated property belonged to the Reich. Instead, they enriched themselves and their accomplices.

Imprisonment and imprisonment

In mid-1942, the Nazi judiciary discovered them. Kirn fled to the east but was later arrested. Karg was removed from office and expelled from the NSDAP and later also from the SS. He was finally arrested on September 26th. In 1943 he was tried. After Gauleiter Wagner initially even found the death penalty possible, only a prison sentence was ultimately demanded. Kirn was sentenced to nine years in prison and died of heart failure in Bruchsal prison in 1944 . Karg, on the other hand, received twelve years in prison, which he served in Bruchsal until December 1944. He was then called to the front because of the military situation. There he belonged to a special unit of the Waffen-SS, in which he should prove himself. There he was forced to clear mines. Among other things, he served in Hungary, Turkey and on the Moldova.

At the end of World War II, he was captured by American troops and handed over to the Soviet Army. Initially used in Siberian road construction, he was transferred to Azerbaijan because of heart problems. In 1947 he was released from captivity and returned to Germany.

After the Second World War

After returning home, he worked as a sales representative. In the denazification process he presented himself as a victim of the Nazi judiciary and withheld some data from his résumé, downplayed his SS membership and withheld large parts of his criminal files. In his defense, he was able to cite the National Socialist Mayor of Stetten, Anton Flad , who certified that he was allegedly an opponent of the party. So he was classified as a follower on April 14, 1948. In the scandalous verdict, he was even certified that he was “internally averse to NS, even opposing it”.

He then tried to have his criminal conviction overturned by the Mannheim Regional Court . However, this failed miserably. Although the original judgment was overturned because it was based on the People's Pest Ordinance , the LG Mannheim saw it as proven that he had used his powers to enrich himself. He was sentenced to three years in prison, although 26 months were considered served because of the Nazi imprisonment. The rest were suspended.

As a result of the ruling, the denazification process was resumed at the urging of the Mannheim chief prosecutor Willy von Mühlenfels . However, Karg succeeded in directing the blame as far as possible on the employee he had appointed, Albert Florian, whom he appointed as head of the debt collection department. The new evidence also did not force the judiciary to revise its judgment at the time, although Karg's guilt was immanent. Although he was now listed as a minor, the gravity of his real guilt was not recognized.

In 1950, after an appeal hearing chaired by Walter Jellinek, his lawyer succeeded in having the second case overturned. So Karg emerged again as a follower of the denazification process.

Karg then worked as a sales representative. Further appeals for clemency followed, but they were all rejected. In January 1959, however, the Stuttgart Ministry of Justice decided that only limited information could be given about his conviction in the criminal record. As part of a lucrative post in the armaments industry, he tried for the last time to have his entry deleted, which he again failed. After that, however, his track is lost and it is not known how his post-war career continued. He died on April 15, 2004 in Mosbach.

literature

Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 144-160 .

Web links

Julius Karg in the LEO-BW database

Individual evidence

^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 145-146 .
^ ^A ^b Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Largest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 146-167 .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 148 f .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 150 f .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 152 .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 152 ff .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 154 f .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 155 f .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 156 f .
^ Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 158 ff .

personal data
SURNAME	Karg, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 2004
Place of death	Mosbach

[1] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 145-146 .

[2ff-2] A ^b Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Largest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 146-167 .

[3] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 148 f .

[4] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 150 f .

[5] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 152 .

[fgf-6] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 152 ff .

[7] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 154 f .

[8] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 155 f .

[9] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 156 f .

[10] Wolf-Ingo Seidelmann: Julius Karg: Biggest corruption scandal in occupied Alsace and the German post-war justice system . In: perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg . Kugelberg Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945893-08-1 , pp. 158 ff .