Justus Beyer

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Justus Beyer during the Nuremberg Trials

Justus Beyer (born April 16, 1910 in Schurow ; † September 26, 1989 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German lawyer and SS leader.

Life

Beyer was the son of a pastor. After attending school, he studied law and political science in Marburg , Munich and Jena . He was a member of the Marburger and Jenenser Wingolfs . On December 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 860.875). In 1932 he also became a member of the SA .

On January 20, 1933, Beyer passed the legal traineeship at the Jena Higher Regional Court with the rating “ fully satisfactory ”. He then became a research assistant with Reinhard Höhn in Jena. His dissertation , which deals with objects ideologies of the system time concerned, he put 1939 at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Berlin in Hoehn and Carl Schmitt , above. In this work, Beyer, whom Rössler and Schleiermacher identify as one of the “chief ideologues of the SD”, comes to a decided rejection of the corporate state universalism of Othmar Spann by attempting to show the “deeper contrast between universalist and National Socialist thinking”.

Beyer had been a full-time functionary of the Schutzstaffel (SS) since 1934: after having worked for the Reichsführer SS (SD) security service since May 1934 , he officially became a member of the SS in June 1934. He was first used in the security office in Munich and later transferred to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. Since 1938 he acted there as department head for science and deputy main department head and clerk of the main department culture.

From May 1939 Beyer took part in an exercise by the Wehrmacht and subsequently as a shooter in the attack on Poland before he was posted as a specialist for the RSHA and sent back to Berlin in December 1939. In 1940 Beyer was the head of Section III A 1 (“General questions about life area work”) in Office Group III (German Life Areas - SD-Inland) at the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). In this capacity he was significantly involved in the population policy planning in the Reich Security Main Office, for example with the resettlement of Slavic population groups in Eastern Europe and the German settlement in Eastern Europe (see General Plan East ). In 1941 Beyer took over the post of official liaison officer of the Reich Security Main Office , d. H. of the security police and the SD, to the party chancellery of the NSDAP .

In May 1941 Beyer finally moved to the party office, where he took over the management of Department III S and III V, the report distribution office. In this position, which he held until the end of the war, he had to manage the archives of the state law department of the party chancellery, which collected magazines, legal gazettes, ordinance gazettes and newsletters from the various authorities and made them available to the party chancellery's department. He also prepared political science reports on questions of administrative history. Since 1942 he officially held the rank of section leader in the party chancellery and a Reich main office leader.

After the war, Beyer appeared as an exonerating witness in the trials against Otto Ohlendorf , whom he tried to portray as the mouthpiece of "a positive opposition" within the SS, and Franz Alfred Six . He worked as an editor for the Deutsche Gewerbe-Zeitung . In the 1960s he was an honorary lecturer in business law at an engineering school . He also worked as a lecturer at the Harzburg Academy for business executives .

Promotions

  • June 1, 1936: Untersturmführer
  • November 9, 1936: Obersturmführer
  • January 30, 1939: Hauptsturmführer
  • June 21, 1944: Obersturmbannführer

Fonts

  • The tension circle, dangers and effects , secret report at the end of May 1936. (Excerpts published as "National Socialism and Universalism" in: German Law , 1936)
  • The class ideology of system time and its overcoming , Darmstadt 1941. (Dissertation) The edition published by Wittich Verlag in Darmstadt in 1942 was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of World War II .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mechtild Rössler / Sabine Schleiermacher: The "General Plan East": Main Lines of the National Socialist Planning and Extermination Policy , 1993, p. 87.
  2. ^ Czesław Madajczyk / Stanisław Biernacki: From the General Plan East to the General Settlement Plan , p. X.
  3. ↑ See Heinz Höhne , The Order under the Skull. The history of the SS , Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-549-0 , p. 389.
  4. ↑ Michael Wildt , Reinhard Höhn. From the Reich Security Main Office to the Harzburg Academy . Paper for the conference “ Political public sphere and intellectual positions in Germany around 1950 and around 1930 ”, March 19-21, 2009 in Hamburg, p. 7.
  5. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation , List of Literature to be Separated, Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schurow , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1989
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck