Karl Naumann

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Karl Naumann (born August 7, 1905 in Lüttewitz , Döbeln district ; † May 18, 1976 in Aerzen ) was a German SS standard leader at the time of National Socialism and a Lower Saxony politician ( GB / BHE ). Naumann was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Naumann came from an old Saxon farming family. He attended elementary school in Zschaitz and later switched to the Realgymnasium with a higher agricultural school in Döbeln . After completing his training, Naumann worked as an agricultural assistant from 1922 to 1923. Naumann took over his father's family farm in 1924, as his father had died as an officer in 1917 in the First World War . From 1924 to 1934 he was an honorary mayor of his home community. Between 1933 and 1939 he was the district farmer leader of the Döbeln district in Saxony.

From 1923 to 1928 Naumann was a member of the Wehrwolf . Naumann already joined the NSDAP ( membership number 97.210) at the beginning of August 1928 , for which he worked as district office manager; He was also the holder of the NSDAP's Golden Decoration . He also became a member of the SA in the same year . From the SA he switched to the SS in September 1936 (SS no. 242.879). In the SS, Naumann was employed full-time as an SS Rottenführer in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and rose to SS-Standartenführer in November 1944. Naumann was also the bearer of the skull ring . Until 1939, Naumann was the district farmer's leader and representative of the Reichsnährstand in the Döbeln district. After the outbreak of World War II , Naumann became department head for food and agriculture in Warsaw (where in early December 1940 he demanded that the food allocations for the Warsaw Ghetto be canceled for the month in order to force its residents to use up the smuggled food) and then in Krakow . From July 1941 to January 1945 he headed the main office of "Food and Agriculture" in the General Government. In this capacity he gave a lecture in August 1942:

“The supply of the previously assumed population of 1.5 million Jews is no longer available, up to an assumed number of 300,000 Jews who still work in the German interest as craftsmen or otherwise. For these, the Jewish ration rates plus certain special allocations that have proven to be necessary for maintaining the labor force are to be retained. The other Jews, a total of 1.2 million, are no longer supplied with food. "(Quoted in Glienke 2012, p. 77.)

Naumann was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he managed to escape. The land reform in the Soviet occupation zone resulted in the expropriation of the farm and the expulsion of the family. Naumann fled to Lower Saxony and worked there as a farm worker from 1946 to 1950.

In 1950 he was involved in founding the BHE and became district chairman in Holzminden . At the same time he was district chairman of the Association of Expelled Germans . In 1957 Naumann took over the chairmanship of the Bund der Kinderreich in Germany. He was also an agricultural officer for the rural people in Bonn who had fled the Soviet zone.

From 1952 to 1956 he was a member of the district council and district administrator of the Holzminden district . He was also elected a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in the third and fourth electoral periods from May 6, 1955 to May 5, 1963.

From 1965 to 1969, the Hildesheim public prosecutor's office investigated Naumann on suspicion of having committed crimes against humanity . He was accused of not having given any food to the Jews who were not in employment in the Generalgouvernement and thus caused them to starve. For lack of evidence, the case was closed in 1969.

literature

  • Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, pp. 53, 60f, 76f, 185f ( online as PDF) .
  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 269–270.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 950.
  2. ↑ a b Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, p. 185f ( online as PDF) .
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 429.
  4. ↑ Glienke 2012, p. 60.
  5. ↑ Glienke 2012, p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lower Saxony politician (GB / BHE), MdL and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüttewitz
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1976
Place of death Aerzen