Karl Sauke

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Karl Sauke (born September 23, 1897 in Hanover ; † September 24, 1958 there ) was a German politician and SA leader. Among other things, he was a member of the Braunschweig Landtag (1933).

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After attending school, Sauke took part in the First World War. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and attended the commercial school. Until 1931 he worked as a representative and sales manager in the textile industry.

Sauke joined the NSDAP in November 1929 and became a member of the SA in 1930. In April 1931 Sauke began as a full-time SA leader in Braunschweig with the establishment of the SA Standard 92. On February 1, 1932 he was promoted to SA Standard Leader. Shortly after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in the spring of 1933, Sauke was entrusted with the establishment of the SA auxiliary police for the Free State of Braunschweig at the beginning of March by the Braunschweig Interior Minister Dietrich Klagges and appointed leader of this organization. After Kiekenap's verdict, Sauke and the SA auxiliary police spread “brutal terror” in the Harz towns of Braunschweig in the following months. On April 10, 1933, he was promoted to SA brigade leader. In the further course of the 1930s Sauke worked in a leading position in the National Socialist Air Corps (NSFK), in which he was promoted to NSFK group leader on April 10, 1938. At this point at the latest, he was responsible for NSFK group 4 (Berlin-Brandenburg). He retained this position until the end of the Second World War . In the Reichstag election of April 1938 , Sauke ran unsuccessfully on the “Führer’s List” for the National Socialist Reichstag .

In 1945 Sauke was captured by the Americans and in August he was transferred from military captivity to internment custody , from which he was released in January 1948. At the beginning of 1950, Sauke and five other defendants were indicted before the jury court at the Braunschweig Regional Court for the terrorist actions he had initiated by the SA auxiliary police in 1933 . In the judgment of March 14, 1950, it was determined that the actions carried out by Sauke in the spring of 1933 in Seesen and in the Blankenburg district had served to make the work of the left-wing parties impossible and to intimidate the population so that no one would dare to be active in the opposition. Sauke was finally due to crimes against humanity in coincidence with false imprisonment in office in 130 cases, assault and coercion in office in five cases and aggravated assault in two cases to a custodial sentence convicted of six years in prison. The revision Saukes was the Supreme Court for the British Zone discarded.

literature

  • Bernhard Kiekenap : SS Junker School. SA and SS in Braunschweig. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937664-94-1 .
  • Kurt Schmalz : National Socialists are fighting for Braunschweig. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1934, DNB 576040959 .
  • Werner Sohn: In the mirror of the post-war processes. The establishment of Nazi rule in the Free State of Braunschweig. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 978-393029281-3 .
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 311.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jews in Seesen ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on geschichtsatlas.de
  2. ^ Chronicle of the City of Braunschweig for 1950 - March 14, 1950 on braunschweig.de
personal data
SURNAME Sauke, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1958
Place of death Hanover