Karl Bötefor

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Karl Friedrich August Christian Bötefür , also Carl Bötefür (born August 18, 1875 in Neustadt (Mecklenburg) ; † after 1945) was a German officer, colonial official, member of parliament and district administrator .

Life

Karl Bötefür was a son of the Neustadt merchant and councilor Ludwig Bötefür. After graduating from high school, he joined the Imperial Navy , joined the naval artillery and received his license as a deck officer in 1895 as a vice fireworker . As a reservist he reached the rank of lieutenant captain of the reserve by 1914 . In 1902 he entered the colonial service of the German Empire . In 1903 he was sent to Duala in Cameroon as a first class customs assistant . In 1908 he was acting head of the customs office and later customs director. In May 1909 he climbed the Cameroon Mountain shortly after its eruption in April and described the newly formed craters. When Dualas was captured by British troops in World War I , he was taken prisoner by the British on September 27, 1914 and was brought to Great Britain via Lagos . The treatment of the German prisoners in Cameroon and on the crossing led to complaints and investigations in Berlin and London. In 1916 he returned to Germany through a prisoner exchange .

After the end of the First World War he was taken over into the administrative service of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From April 1921 to March 1926 he was governor of the Neustadt [-Glewe] office and from April 1932 to October 1933 governor of the Schwerin office.

From 1924 to 1927 (3rd and 4th electoral term) he was a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for the German-ethnic freedom movement .

Since April 1, 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP [membership number 3.725.544].

From October 1933 he worked as a councilor and clerk for community planning in the Interior Department of the State Ministry in Schwerin. In April 1937 he was appointed as the successor to Carl-August von Bülow as district administrator of the Schwerin district.

When in the summer of 1944 he learned of Martin Bormann and Friedrich Hildebrandt's orders to shoot American pilots in violation of international law , he protested: this was murder and he could not follow it as an officer. He was then put into temporary retirement in October 1944. At the beginning of 1945 he finally retired .

His first marriage to Johanna Wilhelmine Elisabeth, geb. Dobert, widowed Heckel (1875–). Probably since 1909 he was married to Marie Louise Bertha, b. Braun (1882-).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy ( digital copies ) 1896, 1914
  2. ^ Deutsche Kolonial-Zeitung 20 (1903), p. 117; Deutsches Kolonialblatt 14 (1903), p. 359
  3. ^ Yearbook of Astronomy and Geophysics 20 (1910), p. 313
  4. ↑ Deutsches Kolonialblatt 26 (1915), p. 26; Army Ordinance Sheet : Lists of losses dated April 6, 1915 (edition 434, p. 5679, digitized version )
  5. ↑ From a British perspective: Correspondence Relative to the Alleged Ill-Treatment of German Subjects Captured in the Cameroons London: HM Stationery Office 1915; From a German perspective: behavior of the English and the French troops under English command against the white population of the German protected areas Cameroon and Togo. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1916 ( digitized at Hathi Trust), therein: Statement from Frau Bötefür dated June 16, 1915, p. 71ff; Protest note from Bötefürs to the British Governor General p. 115f; Statement from Bötefür of May 18, 196, pp. 254ff
  6. ↑ Loss list No. 1297 of December 6, 1916
  7. ^ Helge bei der Wieden: Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Vol. B.13: Mecklenburg. (1976). Pp. 191, 193, 304-305. - More detailed for this and all the following details from Michael Buddrus [Ed.]: Mecklenburg in the Second World War. The meetings of Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the NS leadership bodies of Gau Mecklenburg 1939–1945. An edition of the meeting minutes. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8378-4000-1 . P. 999.
  8. ↑ Beate Behrens: Mecklenburg in the time of National Socialism 1933-1945. A documentation. New Hochsch.-Schr.-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 978-3-929544-46-6 . P. 187
  9. ^ Official supplement to the government gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1924, p. 83, 1926, p. 331; Beate Behrens: Mecklenburg in the time of National Socialism 1933-1945. A documentation. New Hochsch.-Schr.-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 978-3-929544-46-6 . P. 187
  10. ↑ State Handbook for Mecklenburg 1937, p. 8.
  11. ↑ United States v. Friedrich Hildebrandt approx. 12-1368 / 69. (PDF; 31.2 MB) Review and Recommendations. In: Research and Documentation Center for War Crimes Trials (ICWC). January 9, 1948, accessed February 7, 2017 . , P. 9f
  12. ↑ See her statement in the behavior of the English and the French troops under English command against the white population of the German protected areas Cameroon and Togo. Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1916 ( digitized by Hathi Trust), p. 71ff
personal data
SURNAME Bötefür, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bötefür, Carl; Bötefür, Karl Friedrich August Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, colonial official, member of parliament and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH after 1945