Lothar Weirauch

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Lothar Weirauch , also Weyrauch (born November 25, 1908 in Laurahütte , district of Kattowitz ; † January 8, 1983 in Bonn ) was a German ministerial official and politician. During the Second World War he was responsible for the deportation of Jews in the Polish General Government. As FDP federal manager and ministerial official in the Federal Republic, he was a Stasi agent in the GDR .

Life

Weirauch was the son of an elementary school teacher. He attended the secondary school in Löbau and the upper secondary school in Görlitz , where he passed the Abitur. From the summer semester of 1927 he studied law and political science at the University of Breslau with the minor subjects economics and history including the field of Eastern European studies. He finished his studies in 1937 with the assessor exam.

From 1924 to 1926 Weirauch belonged to the Young German Order and then until 1929 to the Bund Wiking . Weirauch joined the SA in early May 1930 and in 1930 became deputy combat group leader in the NS student union . In 1933 he became district group leader for the young lawyers and from 1934 headed the Gau main department for vocational support in the Nazi legal guardian association . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 1.198.294). From 1937 he was employed by the State Insurance Institute of the Silesian Provincial Administration in Breslau . From 1939 he was also involved in the deportation of the mentally ill . Between 1940 and 1945 he was delegated to the government of the Generalgouvernement in Cracow and in 1941 became head of the “Population and Welfare” department as the successor to Fritz Arlt and was under Secretary of State Josef Bühler until 1945. In this role, he organized all resettlements and resettlements Expulsions, especially the ghettoization of the Jewish population and their deportation to extermination camps . As a representative of the government of the General Government, he took part in the second follow-up conference of the Wannsee Conference in the Eichmann Department on October 27, 1942 .

Post war career

Weirauch lived with his family in the Coburg district from March 1945 to May 1948 . In 1948, for reasons that could not be ascertained, he contacted the party executive of the KPD and from then on also worked for the Stasi . At the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia he became regional manager. There he also met Ernst Achenbach , who, as a former Parisian embassy employee and confidante of the deportations of French Jews, now sparked a great deal of activity to protect Nazi perpetrators from legal prosecution. The Naumann district also became active in North Rhine-Westphalia, but Weirauch was not directly involved. Weirauch was federal manager of the FDP from 1950 to 1954 . When the party leadership separated from him in 1954, Weirauch was able to make a career in the Bonn ministerial bureaucracy at the age of 131 . From the beginning of January 1956 to 1964 he was in the BMVg , where he was most recently deputy head of the “Accommodation and Real Estate” sub-department. In August 1964, at the request of Erich Mendes , he took over Department Z in the Ministry for All-German Issues, with responsibility for administration, public relations, and border areas. He retained this position under SPD ministers Herbert Wehner and Egon Franke until he retired at the end of 1973.

Trials and investigations

In 1962, the Dortmund public prosecutor's office investigated Weirauch because of the deportations in the Lublin district . Weirauch and the other accused admitted their involvement in the euphemistically "evacuated" deportations. But since the public prosecutor's office could not prove that they knew about the further fate of the deportees, the proceedings were discontinued in 1964. When it became public that Weirauch had been involved in the extermination of the Jews , the Stasi broke off cooperation with the spy. Allegedly, HVA boss Markus Wolf stopped working with Weirauch around 1967.

In 1973, Weirauch unsuccessfully sued the VVN for referring to his past in the Generalgouvernement in a book .

Works

  • The ethnic groups in the General Government. In: European Review . 18, 1942, p. 255.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The biographical information after Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security. Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-35018-X , pp. 284-292.
  2. ↑ Rupert Appeltshauser: Hitler's assistant the "second row": The Case of a loaded service and their disposal in the Franconian province. In: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 2016. ISSN  0084-8808 , p. 206.
  3. ↑ a b c d Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 397.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 663.
  5. ^ Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security: The Secret Past Policy of the GDR. 2006, p. 284.
  6. ↑ Rupert Appeltshauser: Hitler's assistant the "second row": The Case of a loaded service and their disposal in the Franconian province. In: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 2016. ISSN  0084-8808 , p. 221.
  7. ^ Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security: The Secret Past Policy of the GDR. 2006, p. 287.
  8. ↑ Weirauch was initially set up for reuse in accordance with Art. 131 (for the time being) and on November 22, 1956 became a full Ministerial Councilor, Cabinet Minutes November 22, 1956
  9. ↑ Udo Leuschner : The history of the FDP. Metamorphoses of a party between right, social liberal and neoconservative. Edition Octopus, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-86582-166-9 , pp. 215f.
personal data
SURNAME Weirauch, Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyrauch, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Laurahütte
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1983
Place of death Bonn