Kurt Klemm

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Kurt Hermann Heinrich Otto Klemm (born January 19, 1894 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † November 22, 1973 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German lawyer who a. a. District President in Munster and General Commissioner in Zhitomir .

Life

Kurt Klemm was the son of a district administrator in Mühlhausen. He attended grammar school in Mühlhausen and graduated from high school there in 1912. He then studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Marburg. After passing the first legal examination, he took part in the First World War as a soldier in the Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 2 from 1915 and retired from the army at the end of the war with the rank of lieutenant of the reserve. After the end of the war he did his legal clerkship and after the second state examination he entered the civil service. He worked first in the government in Gumbinnen and from 1925 in Minden , where he was promoted to government councilor in 1928 .

Klemm was a member of the DVP and joined the NSDAP in early December 1931 (membership number 818.070). On February 28, 1933, he was appointed police chief of Recklinghausen . From February 1935 he took up the office of district president of Münster, which he had held provisionally from November 1934. From 1935 to 1941 he was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Council .

During the Second World War , after the attack on the Soviet Union, he was assigned to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories . From October 1941 to August 1942 he was General Commissioner of Zhitomir in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine and then in the same function in Volhynia-Podolia until July 1943. He was then on hold. In 1941, when the extermination of the Jews began , 110,000 Jews lived in the area of ​​the Shitomir General Commissariat . In the May report of 1942, Klemm wrote that the Jewish question had largely been resolved in the Zhitomir General Commissariat .

After 1945 he lived as a district president a. D. in Münster and died on November 22, 1973 in Bad Neuenahr.

literature

  • Bernd Haunfelder: The Münster government presidents of the 20th century (PDF; 10.4 MB), District Government of Münster 2006.
  • Hedwig Schrulle: Administration in dictatorship and democracy. The district governments of Münster and Minden / Detmold from 1930 to 1960 ; Research on regional history, 60; Paderborn, 2008; ISBN 978-3-506-76593-2
  • Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925-1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)
  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 204. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)
  • Martin Dean: Zhytomyr Region (General Commissariat Shitomir) , in: Martin Dean (Ed.): The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. 2, ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe: Part B . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-00227-3 , pp. 1510-1514, 1579

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Dean: Zhytomyr Region (General Commissariat Zhitomir) , 2012, p. 1566, fn. 6
personal data
SURNAME Klemm, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klemm, Kurt Hermann Heinrich Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION District President in Munster and Commissioner General in Zhitomir
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1973
Place of death Bad Neuenahr