Karl Lasch

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Karl Lasch 1941

Karl Lasch (born December 29, 1904 in Kassel ; † June 1, 1942 in Breslau ) was a German economist and lawyer who made a career during the Nazi era and was involved in persecution against Jews during the occupation of Poland at the time of World War II .

Live and act

Until 1933

As the son of a roofer, Lasch attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel . Following an apprenticeship at the local commercial bank, he studied economics at the universities of Cologne , Göttingen and Munich from 1924 and graduated in November 1927 with a diploma. At the beginning of June 1928, Lasch became an auditor at Klöckner-Werken AG Castrop-Rauxel. In 1928 he received his doctorate in political science from the University of Cologne.

Despite his good education and good future prospects in the industry, he chose the path of a career based on corruption and fraud. The first thing he lost was his job in the Klöckner Group due to financial irregularities. His subsequent activity as a public accountant in Kassel ended with a charge of embezzlement. The case was soon dropped. In March 1932 he took the oath of revelation . In winter 1931, he moved to Munich where jurisprudence to study. At the same time, he took a job at Bayerische Lebensversicherung Allianz .

During his time in Munich, Lasch met the then Justice Commissioner and Bavarian Justice Minister Hans Frank , who converted him to National Socialism and soon became his greatest sponsor .

In 1930 he joined the BNSDJ . At the beginning of June 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 547.640). From then on, Lasch worked for their legal department. In the SA Lasch achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer.

From 1933

At the beginning of June 1933 Frank made him acting managing director and in October 1933 full-time managing director of the Academy for German Law . In early 1934 he became director of the Academy for German Law. He used the position to plagiarize unpublished papers sent to him in his law dissertation Das Führerprinzip im Aktienrecht . He dictated this to his secretary in 14 days. He defended his “ dissertation ” in Cologne in 1935 after 30 hours of instruction in law . So Lasch was not a lawyer. The scam with his doctorate was not revealed until years later.

In addition, Lasch was head of the main office in the Reich Legal Office of the NSDAP . In addition, he became head of the office for Nazi lawyers in the foreign organization of the NSDAP . In these functions he ran on the nomination of the NSDAP on the list place with the number 519 in the election to the German Reichstag on March 29, 1936, but did not move into the National Socialist Reichstag . At that time he lived in Berlin-Schöneberg .

From 1939

Even after the Second World War began , Frank looked after his friend. At the end of October 1939 he made him governor of the Radom District (GG) in Germany-occupied Poland. In August 1941 he moved to the Galicia district as governor .

During his entire activity in Poland, Lasch showed himself to be a ruthless anti-Semite who carried out anti-Jewish measures of his own accord and with great cruelty. At the same time he extorted huge amounts of money, valuables and furniture from Jews who asked him for help. He sent accomplices and friends like the Munich art dealer Hans Moser, his brother-in-law, the bookseller Willi Frevert, and his adjutant Leder on shopping and robbery trips to Holland and France in order to smuggle large quantities of valuable carpets, silks and spirits into the GG. Lasch was finally reported with the help of a denunciation . On September 30, 1941, a party court case against Lasch for irregularities was discontinued against conditions. Lasch had been accused of misappropriating academic funds and his title Dr. jur. not having acquired correctly. Lasch, who had been deprived of office worthy of the NSDAP for three years, was given leave of absence from his governorship by Governor General Hans Frank on January 6, 1942.

When the affair turned into a power struggle between Heinrich Himmler's SS and Hans Frank and Lasch's corruption was accused, Frank had to drop his pupil. Lasch was arrested on January 24, 1942 and imprisoned in Krakow. On May 9, 1942, Lasch was tried in a special court for "corruption, rogue business and foreign exchange offenses". On June 1, 1942, before the trial was over, Lasch died either in Breslau or in the Auschwitz concentration camp . The death certificate was found in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum . However, it was created a few months later, so the exact course of death remains in the dark. It is still unclear whether he was shot to personal referral Heinrich Himmler or whether he suicide committed.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk: Murder of Jews in Central Poland: The Radom District in the General Government 1939-1945 . Edited on behalf of the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Research Center Ludwigsburg of the University of Stuttgart, Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-20266-9 . Page 85
  2. ^ Robert Seidel: German Occupation Policy in Poland - The Radom District 1939-1945. Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75628-2 . P. 36
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945. Stuttgart 1975, p. 949.
  4. ↑ Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk, Murder of Jews in Central Poland: The Radom District in the General Government 1939-1945 . Ed. On behalf of the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Ludwigsburg Research Center of the University of Stuttgart, Darmstadt 2007, p. 83.
  5. ↑ Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk, Murder of Jews in Central Poland: The Radom District in the General Government 1939-1945 . Ed. On behalf of the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Research Center Ludwigsburg of the University of Stuttgart, Darmstadt 2007, p. 84.
  6. ↑ a b Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - who was what in the Third Reich. Kiel 2000, p. 263.
  7. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 358.
  8. ^ Michael Stolleis: History of Public Law in Germany: Weimar Republic and National Socialism. (Special edition of the history of public law in Germany, Vol. 3) Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48960-5 , p. 308 and Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk, Murder of Jews in Central Poland: The Radom District in the General Government 1939-1945 . Ed. On behalf of the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Research Center Ludwigsburg of the University of Stuttgart, Darmstadt 2007, p. 84.
  9. ^ Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk: Murder of Jews in Central Poland: The Radom District in the General Government 1939-1945 . Ed. On behalf of the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Research Center Ludwigsburg of the University of Stuttgart, Darmstadt 2007, p. 84f.
  10. ^ Thomas sand cooler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941-1944. Bonn 1996, p. 447f.
  11. ^ A b Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Wiesbaden 1999, p. 395.
personal data
SURNAME Lax, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1942
Place of death Wroclaw