Karl Blaesing

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Karl Blaesing (born December 11, 1901 in Cottbus ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official.

Life

In the 1920s Blaesing studied law in Berlin and in 1921 joined the Catholic student association KDStV Bavaria Berlin in the Cartell Association . During the Nazi era, Blaesing worked as a councilor and senior government councilor in various administrative districts as well as in the countries occupied by Germany during the Second World War , most recently as senior military administrator and German mayor of Saloniki in Greece, where on October 1, 1943, he married a parish of marble from the destroyed Jewish cemetery. During this time Blaesing belonged to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 4.522.634) and the Sturmabteilung from 1937 .

After the Second World War, he found a job in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , where he was head of Section II B 6 and is said to have primarily dealt with the law regulating the legal relationships of persons falling under Article 131 of the Basic Law .

In the 1950s and 1960s, Blaesing was repeatedly the target of attacks on the part of the GDR , in which it was a question of denouncing the personal continuity between the Nazi state and the Federal Republic and, in particular, of taking on people who were actually or allegedly incriminated in high administrative positions in the West German state went.

On March 15, 1968 Blaesing received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . At the time he lived as a Ministerialrat a. D. in Bad Godesberg .

See also

literature

  • Klaus Eichner: Attack and Defense: the German Secret Services after 1945 , 2007, p. 242.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of suggestions of the OKH for the award of the War Merit Cross First Class from January 30, 1945, Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg, RH 3/163 (unfollowed).
  2. ^ Cartellverband: Gesamtverzeichnisc des CV , Dr. E. Siegl (Ed.), Vienna 1924, p. 17
  3. Sara Berger, Erwin Lewin, Sanela Schmid and Maria Vassilikou: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Volume 14, “Occupied Southeastern Europe and Italy”, p. 104.
  4. ^ Committee for German Unity: Gestapo and SS leaders command the West German police. A documentation , 1961, p. 17; Braunbuch: War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West) , 2002 [reprint], p. 270.
  5. Federal Gazette of March 29, 1968, p. 1.