Karl Döscher

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Karl Döscher (born October 4, 1913 in Kiel ; † unknown) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and from May 1938 worked as a " Judenreferent " in the SD main office . Döscher prepared a paper on the “ final solution to the German Jewish problem ” for the meeting of the chiefs of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) on December 20, 1939 .

Life

Döscher attended grammar school up to grade 12 and then completed a commercial apprenticeship. He joined the NSDAP and SA on August 1, 1932 . He joined the SS on May 1, 1934; on September 10, 1939, he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer before he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer on April 20, 1940. From May 1938 Döscher was employed in SD Main Office II, Section 112 (“Jewish Issues”). He became the successor of Herbert Hagens , who knew him from their youth together in Kiel and who had proposed him as his successor when he moved to Office VI ("Foreign Intelligence Service") and took over the Office VI / H2 ("Jewish Issues and Antisemitism"). As a "school dropout" who joined the NSDAP at the age of less than 19 and became a "Judenreferent" in the SD at the age of 25, Döscher, as the historian Gerhard Paul emphasizes, contradicted "the image of the SD as an intellectual elite, which is cultivated in literature " .

With the establishment of the Reich Security Main Office, Döscher took Division II / 112 from the SD Main Office into Office II ("Opponent Research") of the RSHA and headed this office. At first it was his task, on behalf of the head of office Franz Six, together with Helmut Bone and lower SS charges as helpers in the transition from the SD main office to the RSHA, to "reorganize Jewish work" and "transfer the files to Emserstraße" take care of.

When his supervisor Six requested "submission of bullet points" for the meeting of the heads of the RSHA on December 20, 1939, Döscher provided the desired "bullet points" about the "final solution to the German Jewish problem". This letter from Döscher of December 19, 1939 is quoted many times in the literature and is printed in full in Volume 3 of the document edition The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (VEJ), published in 2012, together with a biographical sketch of Döscher. Then the question should be clarified, "whether a Jewish reservation should be created in Poland or whether the Jews should be housed in the future governorate of Poland ". In addition, it is necessary to decide “whether the emigration of Jews will continue in view of the creation of the reservation”. At the end of the paper, Döscher took the view:

“In terms of foreign policy, a reserve would also be a good means of exerting pressure against the Western powers. Perhaps this could raise the question of a world solution at the end of the war . "

According to the historian Lutz Hachmeister, there are no more entries on Döscher in the relevant " BDC files [...] after 1940".

In a letter from Eberhard von Thaddens from Berlin dated May 25, 1944, which was classified as a "Secret Reichssache", to his direct superior Wagner , Thadden mentions, among other things, that the representative "von Heinz Ballensiefen ... the practical manager of the Institute SS- Obersturmführer Döscher [is] who has so far managed a similar establishment of Ballensiefen in Paris ”. Thadden refers to the French and Hungarian "Institutes for Research into the Jewish Question", which were managed in the background by SS men.

In the post-war period , Döscher was “active as a police officer in a leading position in Göttingen”, according to the information in the VEJ volume.

literature

  • The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3. German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 - September 1941 . Oldenbourg, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 .
  • Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43507-6 .
  • Gerhard Paul: Landunter. Schleswig-Holstein and the swastika . Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89691-507-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, p. 370f.
  2. ↑ a b The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3. Oldenbourg, Göttingen 2012, p. 46.
  3. ^ Gerhard Paul: Landunter. Schleswig-Holstein and the swastika . Münster 2001, p. 210.
  4. ^ Gerhard Paul: Landunter. Schleswig-Holstein and the swastika . Münster 2001, p. 191.
  5. ↑ Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, p. 214.
  6. ↑ Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, p. 370f.
  7. ↑ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3. Oldenbourg, Göttingen 2012, p. 46, document 39 and footnote 2 on the biographical data.
  8. ↑ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3. Oldenbourg, Göttingen 2012, p. 46, document 39; see also Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, p. 371.
  9. ↑ Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, p. 371.
  10. ↑ Randolph L. Braham: The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry. A Documentary Account, Volume 1, New York: Pro Arte for the World Federation of Hungarian Jews 1963, Volume 1, source 164, p. 384
  11. ↑ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3. Oldenbourg, Göttingen 2012, p. 46, footnote 2; In 1975, the news magazine Der Spiegel quoted "Chief Inspector Karl Döscher, Göttingen Traffic Police Department" with a five-year-old statement. See Der Spiegel, August 4, 1975 .
personal data
SURNAME Döscher, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer and Judenreferent in the SD main office
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century