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Leo Volk during the Nuremberg Trials. Photo taken in January 1947.

Leo Narziss Volk , called Leo Volk (born May 2, 1909 in Berlin ; † 1973 ) was a German lawyer and SS leader .

Life

Volk, the son of a ministerial secretary, finished his school career in 1928 with the Abitur . Volk then studied law at several universities, including Switzerland and France, and passed the first state examination in law in November 1932 at the University of Erlangen . During his clerkship doctorate people in December 1935 in Erlangen, Dr. jur. with the dissertation : The transfer of expectant rights from conditional transfer of ownership . People finished his law studies in November 1936 with the second state examination. From February 1937 to mid-January 1940, Volk was active at the German Municipal Association.

Volk became a member of the NSDAP at the beginning of May 1933 ( membership number 2.639.413) and from the beginning of November 1933 belonged to the SS (SS number 219.415). From the spring of 1933, Volk belonged to several SS standards. In the SS, Volk reached the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserve ( Waffen-SS ) in November 1942 .

After the outbreak of World War II , Volk was drafted into the Waffen SS in mid-January 1940. After that, Volk was employed in various managerial positions in the main office for administration and economy and the administration office of the Waffen SS. After two months of military training in Prague , which he completed in mid-July 1941, from September 1941 he headed the legal department in Staff W of the Main Office for Administration and Economics . From the beginning of February 1942, Volk continued this activity in the newly established SS Economic and Administrative Main Office as SS leader and department head in Office Group W. From May 1942 Volk was the personal advisor to Oswald Pohl , the head of the WVHA, and later responsible for housing and evacuation issues at the WVHA. In addition, Volk was an authorized signatory at Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe GmbH , which systematically exploited the labor of concentration camp prisoners. In September 1944 at the latest, Volk rose to become deputy head of Office Group W in the WVHA. At the beginning of March 1945, Volk was transferred to a combat unit of the Waffen SS.

After the end of the war

After his arrest, Volk was interned with Hans Hohberg and Karl Mummenthey from November 1946 to January 1947 by the British War Criminals Holding Center in Minden . There the internees had to write the “Minden Report”. This 244-page report should present the structure of the WVHA and its economic ventures comprehensibly. According to Naasner, the report was not used as evidence in the Nuremberg trials .

In the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office trial , Volk was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity on November 3, 1947, by the United States Military Tribunal II . In particular , he was accused of being involved in concentration camp crimes as a result of the exploitation of the labor of concentration camp prisoners by SS companies. Volk was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, which was reduced to eight years in late January 1951. At the beginning of February 1951 he was released early from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . He later lived in Herford and worked as an established lawyer. According to Schulte, Volk died in 1973.

literature

  • Walter Naasner (Hrsg.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung - The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt and the economic ventures under its supervision , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, publications of the Federal Archives: 45a, ISBN 3-7700-1603-3 .
  • Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .
  • Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. United States Government Printing Office , District of Columbia 1950. (Volume 5 of the " Green Series ")

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 644.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 356f.
  3. ^ A b Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 478.
  4. ^ A b Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 433.
  5. ↑ Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 350f.
  6. ↑ Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 10f.
  7. ^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 1047ff.
personal data
SURNAME People, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volk, Leo Narcissus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1973