Kurt Lasch

Kurt Lasch

Kurt Arno Lasch (born March 29, 1886 in Reichenbrand ; † November 1, 1977 in Lohr am Main ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

Life

Lasch, born as the son of a Protestant family, completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer from 1900 and at the same time attended a crafts school and the technical state schools in Chemnitz . Joined the army in October 1905 , Lasch took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a member of Infantry Regiment 181, Reserve Infantry Regiment 104 and Infantry Regiment 474. After the end of the war, Lasch was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant in the Landwehr and worked for the Reich Finance Administration from November 1919 to June 1930 , most recently as chief tax inspector in Chemnitz.

On September 1, 1925, Lasch founded the SA in Chemnitz and took over the leadership of the NSDAP party army in the city. He joined the NSDAP on September 30, 1925 (membership number 19,707). From November 1929 to 1933 Lasch was a city councilor and parliamentary group leader of the NSDAP in the city council of Chemnitz. In June 1930 he was given leave of absence from the Reich Finance Administration and led SA units in Chemnitz with the rank of SA Oberführer until 1933. In the same month Lasch was elected to the Saxon state parliament, to which he belonged until 1933.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Lasch was an honorary commissioner for the Chemnitz District Headquarters from March to September 1933 . In November 1933 he received a mandate in the Reichstag , which had no function during the National Socialist era. In the SA, Lasch, promoted to SA group leader in December 1933, took over the leadership of the SA group in Thuringia. In October 1933 he was appointed to the Thuringian State Council and thus belonged to the state government under Prime Minister Willy Marschler .

Lasch was arrested by the SS in Weimar on June 30, 1934 , after a brief detention, as part of the political cleansing action known as the “ Röhm Putsch ”, during which Hitler had his actual and alleged opponents in the ranks of the SA eliminated but released in Berlin. In August 1934 he lost his position as the Thuringian State Councilor. In October 1934 Lasch was transferred to the Supreme SA leadership (OSAF) ​​and took over the management of the social department. From November 1934 until the end of the war he was an honorary judge and assessor in the 5th Senate of the People's Court . In the 1938 Reichstag election , Lasch was on the list of candidates, but lost his seat in the Reichstag. In September 1936 he resigned from the Supreme SA leadership and took on a position as training manager at the Reich Air Protection Association in East Prussia. In November 1940 Lasch moved to the Rhineland Group of the Luftschutzbund and was there with the rank of General Air Defense Leader, Inspector of Self-Protection. In the SA he was promoted to Obergruppenführer in April 1943 and in the Reich Finance Administration, on a permanent leave of absence, to the Government Council in 1944.

After the war ended, Lasch was captured by American troops in 1945 and interned until the end of 1945. Until December 1948 he worked as a road construction worker in Duisburg, after which he was unemployed due to illness. Lasch's denazification dragged on until April 1955: In October 1949, the Duisburg Main Denazification Committee classified him in the group of “fellow travelers”. After Lasch moved to Lohr in Bavaria in 1953, this decision was not recognized by the local authorities. In another procedure before the Main Chamber of Munich, Lasch was classified in the group of "incriminated" people in April 1954. As a measure of atonement, Lasch was ordered to do special work. This verdict was repealed in April 1955 by the Main Chamber of Munich in accordance with the law on the completion of political liberation in Bavaria.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 364 f .

Web links

• Kurt Lasch in the database of members of the Reichstag