Just Dillgardt

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The grave of Just Dillgardt and his wife Grete in the Ostfriedhof Essen .

Just Dillgardt (born April 8, 1889 as August Dillgarth in Elversberg , † September 14, 1960 in Essen ) was a German local politician ( NSDAP ), association official and corporate manager.

Party affiliation

Dillgardt had been a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 85.244) and the SS (membership number 35.615) since 1928 , and from April 20, 1939 in the rank of SS-Oberführer . An allegedly “aloof attitude” to his party, which was often claimed after the war, is nowhere proven.

Public offices

Dillgardt was the son of a miner. He attended the secondary school in Weimar . He began studying electrical engineering and was drafted into a submarine weapon during World War I. He did not graduate. He came to Essen in 1920 and worked in various industrial companies. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he quickly made a career. On April 18, 1933 he was appointed acting director of the Ruhr coal district settlement association . On July 13, 1933, he moved into the Essen city council as a technical assistant. On December 13, 1934, he took over temporarily and on January 1, 1935 the mayor's office in Duisburg .

On May 1, 1937, he was appointed acting Lord Mayor of Essen. Dill Garth wrote in 1937 in the city chronicle, it was, among other things his task from the Essen population "separate the non-recovery-enabled and the racially inferior or eradicate." Dillgardt remained mayor until the bloodless surrender of the city and his arrest by the Allies on 11. April 1945. After the war ended, he was sentenced to 28 months in prison. In 1943 Dillgardt denounced Wilhelm Ricken , who had been appointed to RWE 's technical director and had made statements critical of the regime. Ricken was sentenced to death by the People's Court in 1944 and executed . After the war, Dillgardt was charged with a crime against humanity, but the case was discontinued in 1950 by the Essen District Court on the basis of the law on impunity . After a revision by the Federal Court of Justice , he was acquitted in 1953 by the Essen Regional Court.

Other functions

At the beginning of 1934, Dillgardt became the Essen district director of the newly founded Reich Association of Electricity Supply (REV). In 1938 he became the third chairman of the supervisory board of the RWE group . From 1938 to 1940 Dillgardt was a board member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). On January 10, 1939, Göring appointed him General Manager of the German Energy Industry, but he resigned from this position in mid-March 1941. After the occupation of Poland, he coordinated the takeover of the local energy industry by German companies and, among other things, was also involved in the exploitation of Norway .

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Individual evidence

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