Karl Gossel

Karl Gossel (born July 1, 1892 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † August 24, 1966 in Melle ) was a German CDU politician.

Life

After graduating from a humanistic grammar school (1911), the Protestant Gossel studied law and political science at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . He became a member of the Corps Borussia Halle (1913) and the Corps Suevia Strasbourg zu Marburg (1925). The studies were interrupted by deployments as a soldier in World War I. In 1919 he began training as an administrative officer in Frankfurt (Oder) , after which he became a government councilor in Harburg (Elbe) in 1923has been. In 1925 he switched to the Prussian Ministry of Finance in Berlin as a finance advisor. From 1928 to 1934 he was district administrator in the Melle district and then moved to the Reich Ministry of Finance. After a deployment in Poland in 1939/40 he was responsible for war tasks in the Reich Ministry of Finance until the end of the war. He also organized the "treatment" of Eastern workers in Nazi forced labor camps in which extermination through work was part of the program. B. by financing these forced labor camps. In 1948 he became chief district director in the Melle district. At that time he still received the ribbon of the Corps Saxonia Frankfurt am Main .

MP

As a member of the Lower Saxony CDU , Gossel was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1965 . In the German Bundestag he always represented the Bundestag constituency Diepholz - Nienburg I with a direct mandate .

Honors

• Honorary member of the Corps Borussia Halle

literature

• Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925-1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938). Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)
• Horst-Alfons Meißner: State servant in the Third Reich. The district administrators of today's Osnabrück district during the Hitler dictatorship 1933-1945. A contribution to the history of the Osnabrück region. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-13091-9 .
• Bernhild Vögel: The “Maternity Home for Eastern Workers” Braunschweig, Broitzemer Str. 200. Hamburg Foundation for Social History d. 20th century, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-927106-02-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 96/545; 101/211; 29/46
2. ↑ Tenhumberg family - home page / 1933-1945 camp / 1933-1945 camp K - Kelsterbach (Am Mörfelder Weg)
3. ↑ s. a. Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925-1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938). Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. p. 136.