Kurt Claasen

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Kurt Claasen (born January 9, 1908 in Itzehoe ; † unknown (declared dead)) was involved as SS-Hauptsturmführer in the " Aktion Reinhardt ".

Claasen joined the SS (SS No. 29,338) early on. After the German invasion of Poland he was in the district of Radom for ethnic Germans self-protection , a mainly of members of the German minority in Poland auxiliary police formed, the Polish in the expulsion and murder of citizens participated.

Claasen was later on the staff of the SS and Police Leader (SSPF) of Lublin , Odilo Globocnik . Globocnik led the genocide of the Polish Jews in the Generalgouvernement in " Aktion Reinhardt ". The deployment of staff on Globocnik's staff was handled very flexibly. In Globocnik's staffing plan , Claasen was identified as a clerk in the department for Jewish affairs under Hermann Höfle . These clerks, including Amon Göth and Georg Michalsen , organized the evacuation of ghettos and the transports to the extermination camps . Claasen was also responsible for the so-called “labor deployment”, the deployment of forced laborers , on Globocnik's close staff . In addition to the Reinhardt campaign, Globocnik was also responsible for setting up SS and police bases. Claasen took over the management of the branch in Mogilew , possibly he also led the branch in Białystok and Minsk .

After Globocnik's transfer to Trieste in September 1943, Claasen stayed in Lublin and was employed as staff leader of the new SSPF Jakob Sporrenberg there. His further fate is unknown. He was pronounced dead after the end of the war and no prosecution took place. In the literature his name is sometimes incorrectly spelled "Classen".

literature

  • Joseph Poprzeczny: Odilo Globocnik - Hitler's man in the East. McFarland, London, 2004. ISBN 0786416254

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Staffing plan in facsimile
  2. ↑ Personnel list 1940 to July 1943 in facsimile
  3. ↑ Jan Erik Schulte : "... should the Jews ... now come to work in the course of the Final Solution" ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ghwk.de 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. The Wannsee Conference in the context of SS workforce planning and genocide 1941/42. (Lecture on January 20, 2003 in the House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin)
  4. ↑ Personnel list in facsimile
personal data
SURNAME Claasen, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptsturmführer, involved in Aktion Reinhardt
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH after September 1943