Karl Drendel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Drendel (born March 17, 1890 in Berlin ; † unknown) was a German lawyer and SS leader .

Live and act

After participating in the First World War and studying law , Drendel passed the trainee exam in 1918. During his studies he became a member of the Germania Berlin choir in 1912 . From 1918 he worked in the private sector, including for the National Bank for Germany and for the Siemens concern in Berlin.

In 1927 Drendel was appointed court assessor and in July 1932 the public prosecutor's office. In accordance with the decree of June 16, 1933, he was given leave of absence from the judicial administration in the Secret State Police Office on July 25, 1933, where he was appointed Economic Policy Department Head in Department II E 1. In March 1934 his leave of absence was extended. A few weeks after the SS took over the Secret State Police Office in mid-April 1934, Drendel left the police force and was transferred to Breslau on September 1, 1934 .

In Breslau, Drendel first worked for the public prosecutor, where he was promoted to senior public prosecutor in March 1935 . In June 1940 he was appointed Attorney General in Poznan and in July 1943 as President of the Katowice Higher Regional Court .

The State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice Curt Rothenberger introduced Drendel to the office of President of the Higher Regional Court of Katowice on August 20, 1943, during a ceremony in the provincial administration in Katowice . In his address, Rothenberger characterized Drendel as "a pioneer of the movement " and the office of President of the Higher Regional Court in Katowice as "the highest office that can be awarded in the Upper Silesian judiciary". Speeches by Gauleiter Fritz Bracht and Vice President of the Higher Regional Court of Katowice, Dr. Caliebe , who became President of the Senate at the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia in Essen after 1949 .

Drendel was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.330.870) and worked as an informant for the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD). With the SS (SS no. 99.435), Drendel was first promoted to SS-Standartenführer in April 1940 . At the end of January 1942, Drendel rose to become SS-Oberführer in the SS.

According to a statement by the Federal Minister of Justice before the Frankfurt am Main regional court, Drendel is said to have died on February 16, 1963 by this time.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 68.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 118f.
  3. ↑ a b c Report on the inauguration of the Higher Regional Court President Drendel in Kattowitz in: Zeitschrift Deutsche Justiz (publisher: Reichsminister der Justiz Otto Thierack), Issue 31 of September 3, 1943, p. 426.
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee : Oh, the old days. A small town, the ministry, the protection of the constitution and the judiciary kept tight, in: Die ZEIT No. 19 of May 1, 1987; online at: http://www.zeit.de/1987/19/ach-die-alten-zeiten/komplettansicht
  5. ↑ Karl Drendel on www.dws-xip.pl
personal data
SURNAME Drendel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century