Karl Eugen Dellenbusch

Karl Eugen Dellenbusch (born October 11, 1901 in Arnsberg , † October 19, 1959 in Wuppertal ) was a German National Socialist politician, SS brigade leader and, during and after the Nazi era, chairman of the Sauerland Mountain Association for many years .

Life

Dellenbusch, whose father was an insurance salesman, attended elementary school from 1908 to 1913 and then the humanistic grammar school in his hometown until he graduated from high school in 1922 . He then completed a degree in law and political science as well as economics and philosophy until 1926. After completing his legal clerkship, he joined the civil service in 1931 as a court assessor. From 1931 he was initially employed as a judge at the local and regional court in Arnsberg.

On September 1, 1932, he became a party member of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.316.229) and began a political career that kept him close to Josef Terboven until the end . He took over several offices in NS-subsidiary organizations and from 1932 worked for several years as a Gauredner in the Gau Westfalen-Süd and in March 1933 after the seizure of power became a city ​​councilor in Arnsberg. From August 1933 to September 1939 he was a member of the SA . In 1933, as National Socialist "club leader", he took over the main chairmanship of the Sauerland Mountain Club, which he held beyond the time of National Socialism . There he worked in the sense of conformity and finally ran until November 1933 the exchange of unpleasant board members of the individual local departments with members of the NSDAP and their ideology following club members. He installed the office of Dietwarts on the association boards . From September 1, 1933 to February 1, 1937, he was Vice President of the Arnsberg District , then from May 1, 1937 to January 1, 1941, Vice President of the Koblenz District, and then temporarily held the post as Vice- President of the Rhine Province under Chief President Terboven until 1945 of the Koblenz regional president.

On October 1, 1939, he joined the SS (SS no. 353.036), where he held the rank of brigade leader from the end of January 1943. From September 13, 1939 to May 1945, he was also provisional district president of the administrative district of Cologne , representing the absent Eggert Reeder .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Dellenbusch was Deputy Head of Civil Administration at Army Group B from October 1939 to April 1940 . When Terboven was appointed Reich Commissioner in Oslo on April 24, 1940, after the occupation of Norway , Dellenbusch followed him to Scandinavia, where despite his lack of expertise, he was responsible for economic and financial issues. There he founded the so-called Department of Economics and was defeated by another political pupil of Terboven, Hans Dellbrügge, in a power struggle for Terbovenes' deputy . In August 1940 he was still regional commissioner in Bergen and remained in this office until February 1941.

Due to a complaint from the population, Dellenbusch was arrested by the British military government on September 27, 1945 in Arnsberg in the British occupation zone and imprisoned for two years. Ultimately, however, this could not prove concrete war crimes. In December 1947, he was transferred to the Arbitration Chamber in Recklinghausen and finally sentenced to 10,000 Reichsmarks , which was declared to have been compensated by the long imprisonment. In 1948 he was replaced as main chairman of the Sauerland Mountain Association, but was re-elected to office in 1954.

After the Second World War Dellenbusch worked as a lawyer in Wuppertal- Elberfeld , where he also died in 1959.

literature

• Günter Cronau : Karl Eugen Dellenbusch "Leader" of the Sauerland Mountain Association before and SGV main chairman after 1945 In: SüdWestfalen Archive 9/2009: State history in the former Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia and the county of Arnsberg.
• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46) , Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 , p. 136.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. , Münster 2004, p. 136
2. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 280 .
3. ^ Robert Bohn: Reichskommissariat Norway: "National Socialist Reorganization" and War Economy , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-486-56488-4 , p. 159f.
4. ^ The revival of the SGV after 1945