Karl Kernert

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Karl Kernert (born May 22, 1907 in Dresden ; † October 31, 1987 there ) was a German lawyer and political functionary ( NSDAP ).

Life and activity

Born as the son of a nursery owner, Kernert attended the Humanist Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden. He studied law and political science in Leipzig and Geneva . During his studies in 1926 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Dresdensia . In 1929 he took his exam. Kernert was given a thesis on the position of the security owner against foreclosures by the creditors of the transferor and in his bankruptcy to Dr. iur. PhD . Since November 1930 he belonged to the NSDAP ( membership number 348.873).

In June 1933, Kernert passed the major state examination in law and then entered the judicial service as a court assessor. On June 15, 1933 he became a member of the SA and was there leader of Standarten 100 and M 33 in Dresden. Later he became SA-Scharführer and SA-Oberscharführer . In November 1933 he was given the rank of government assistant, meanwhile in general administrative service. In the following years he was promoted to government councilor (1936), senior government councilor (1939), ministerial councilor (1940) and ministerial director (1941). During these years he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer and SS-Standartenführer (SS-No. 107,405) within the SS .

Kernert was temporarily assigned to the Gestapo as an official of the Ministry of the Interior : He worked for them in Berlin , then he headed the Dresden Gestapo headquarters and in 1938/1939 the state police in Reichenberg .

During the Second World War , Kernert was appointed to succeed Hans von Helms as head of Group III P on the staff of the Deputy Leader ( SSdF ), the central steering body created in 1933 to manage and supervise the NSDAP party apparatus. In this position he was in charge of overseeing the processing of state personnel matters in the SSdF and was one of the close collaborators of Martin Bormann , the SSdF staff leader.

At the end of the war, Kernert went into hiding in a small town near Pullach , where he posed as a refugee from Dresden.

After the war Kernert lived as a lawyer in Bavaria. Among other things, in the 1950s he took care of the pension claims of the widows of the members of the former party chancellery, such as Annemarie Hanssen, the widow of Kurt-Walter Hanssen . Politically, during these years he was one of a group that was to have a lasting impact on the Gehlen organization and the early Federal Intelligence Service : a network of former members of the SS, the Gestapo and the RSHA around Wilhelm Krichbaum , who played a major role in ensuring that the secret service be Recruited personnel from former “comrades”.

Honors

Fonts

  • Position of the security owner against foreclosures by the transferor's creditors and in the latter's bankruptcy , 1930. (Dissertation)
  • Retirement provision for entrepreneurs and employees. 1952, 4th edition Stuttgart Munich Hanover Boorberg 1956.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , p. 535.
  • Peter Longerich: Hitler's Deputy: Leadership of the Party and Control of the State Apparatus , 1992.
  • Susanne Meinl / Bodo Hechelhammer: Pullach secret object. From the NS model estate to the headquarters of the BND
  • Wolfgang Stelbrink: The Prussian District Administrator In National Socialism: Studies On National Socialist Personnel And Administrative Policy At District Level , 1998, p. 117.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 535 .
personal data
SURNAME Kernert, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and political functionary (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1987
Place of death Dresden