Kurt Struve

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Kurt Gerhard Struve (born July 11, 1902 in Hamburg ; † September 20, 1986 in Flensburg ) was a German lawyer and senior administrative officer in Hamburg.

Life

The son of a commercial clerk spent his childhood and youth in Hamburg-Rotherbaum and completed his school career in 1921 at the secondary school with the Abitur . He then studied law at the Universities of Hamburg and Marburg . After passing the first law degree in 1925 received his doctorate he 1927 in Hamburg with the thesis "The principle of uniformity of taxation as a legal" to Dr. jur. After he had passed his second state examination in law in 1929, he joined the Hamburg administration, where he initially worked for the welfare authority and from 1930 to 1935 headed the labor welfare department. He then moved to other Hamburg authorities and, after the Greater Hamburg Law came into force , he was busy reorganizing the Hamburg welfare department and the youth welfare office.

Struve was a member of the DDP from 1928 to 1933 , which was renamed the German State Party in 1930 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the SA in November 1933 and became a member of the NSDAP in early May 1937 .

From 1937 Struve was the NSDAP's manager at the Langenhorn sanatorium . After the beginning of the Second World War , from October 1939 he was promoted to the Senate Council and headed the General Administration of the Hamburg Health Authority and was deputy to Health Senator Friedrich Ofterdinger . Struve reorganized the health administration according to economic needs. He organized the transfer of mentally ill and mentally handicapped inmates from Hamburg institutions to Nazi killing centers as part of Action T4 and, in this context, carried out the registration form for the selection of those to be deported in Hamburg. From September 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945, Struve did military service.

After the end of the war, Struve left the Hamburg administration at the end of October 1945 on the instructions of the British military administration. At his place of residence in Reinbek , Struve earned his living from 1946 to 1948 by working in an architecture office. He then worked for a construction company and worked part-time for a trade association and a house and landowner association. He was also head of the non-profit building cooperative Sachsenwald in Reinbek. Investigations against the persons involved in child euthanasia in Hamburg were closed on April 19, 1949 by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office; Struve was among the accused. Struve, meanwhile denazified , was reinstated in the Hamburg administration in October 1950. Working for the tax authority under Walter Dudek , Struve was re-elected in July 1951 as a senior government councilor, headed the property management and from 1957 was the leading government director of the commission for land regulation. From 1959 he was a member of the Joint State Planning Council Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein and from 1964 the planning staff of the Senate Chancellery. As Senate Director, Struve did not retire until 1970 after his employment contract had been extended despite the pension limit. He then started his own business with a small business as an expert and consultant for urban development issues.

On the basis of letters of protest from Albert Huth, who kept a diary as a resident of the Alsterdorf institutions during the Nazi era and was forcibly sterilized , the Hamburg public prosecutor's office started investigations against Struve and the former director of the institution Friedrich Lensch in the early 1970s . While the proceedings against Lensch were not admitted in court, in September 1974 a case against Struve for aiding and abetting murder of a sick person was brought before the Hamburg Regional Court ; however, due to Struve's non-appearance on September 16, 1974 initially suspended. Struve was in hospital at the time. After the trial was retried, Struve cried in the courtroom and said that he was afraid he was unable to read the indictment. The proceedings were dropped on October 17, 1974 because Struve was unable to stand trial.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The perpetrators - Kurt Gerhard Struve on archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 610
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 90f., Footnotes p. 299
  4. ↑ Eyewitness report from a resident - From Albert Huth's diary at http://bidok.uibk.ac.at/
personal data
SURNAME Struve, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Struve, Kurt Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1986
Place of death Flensburg