Klaus Konrad (politician, 1914)

Klaus Konrad (born December 22, 1914 in Charlottenburg ; † August 15, 2006 in Scharbeutz near Lübeck ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After high school at a secondary school graduated Konrad studying law and political science at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin , which he in 1937 with the first legal state exam ended. After completing his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination in 1941 and joined the administration as a government assessor in 1942 . In 1943 he became chief staff officer in the Air Force and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1945 .

In 1944 he was one of three staff officers of the 274th Infantry Regiment, which is held responsible for the massacre in San Polo . The German criminal authorities investigated Konrad from 1969 to 1972, but classified his complicity in the massacre in San Polo as manslaughter, which was now time barred. The Italian military prosecutor's office has been investigating Klaus Konrad for murder since 2004. In June 2005, the German public prosecutor's office announced that the investigation had also been resumed there. In mid-January 2006, the proceedings against Konrad began before a military court in La Spezia , in which he did not take part because of his old age. He had always denied the allegation that he was involved in the shootings and only admitted that he was present during the torture.

After the Second World War , from 1947 Konrad initially worked as a laborer, but later as a lawyer assistant. In 1949 he was admitted to the bar and in 1954 he was also appointed notary in Eutin . In 1956 he switched to the administration of the Eutin district as a district administrator .

Klaus Konrad was married and had three children.

Political party

Konrad joined the SPD in 1949 and was a member of the board of the SPD district association Eutin from 1950. From 1956 to 1970 he was chairman of the district association Eutin and from 1975 the district association Ostholstein . Klaus Konrad became an honorary member of the district board on April 4, 1981, and on June 12, 1993, he became honorary district chairman in Ostholstein. Konrad resigned from honorary posts in 2004. Because of the allegation of active participation in the San Polo massacre, the state executive of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein decided on February 6, 2006 to let Konrad's party membership rest.

MP

Konrad belonged to the city ​​council of Eutin from 1951 to 1959 and from 1951 to 1956 also to the district council of the Eutin district. From 1962 to 1969 he was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein . There he was chairman of the Committee on Public Health from 1962 to 1967 and chairman of the Committee on the Constitution and Rules of Procedure from 1967 to 1969. Konrad always entered the state parliament via the state list .

From 1969 to 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag . He retired in 1969 and 1976 over the national list Schleswig-Holstein and in 1972 as directly selected delegates of the constituency Segeberg - Eutin in the Bundestag one.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Ex-MP Klaus Konrad died" DIE WELT -Online of August 17, 2006
2. ^ "First a war criminal, then a member of the Bundestag - the bloody Nazi past of the SPD politician Klaus Konrad" ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Text of the program " Contrasts " of the Berlin-Brandenburg broadcasting company on October 28, 2004 

Web links

• Klaus Konrad in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein