Ludwig Leist

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Ludwig Leist's order for the resettlement of Jews to the Warsaw Ghetto , August 7, 1940.

Ludwig Leist (born March 14, 1891 in Kaiserslautern , † 1967 in Murnau ) was a German administrative officer, SA leader and city governor of Warsaw in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War .

Life

Leist attended elementary school. He joined the Bavarian 8th Infantry Regiment in 1908 . After the outbreak of World War I , he did military service, most recently with the rank of lieutenant . After the end of the war he was released from the army and in 1921 moved to the Reichszollverwaltung, where he worked until 1934 and was promoted to chief customs inspector. Then he was employed by the administration of the city of Würzburg , where he was a city councilor and worked for the Würzburg SA standard. At the beginning of October 1930 he had already joined the NSDAP and the SA . He ran unsuccessfully for the 1938 Reichstag election with the rank of SA standard leader .

After the attack on Poland , he was part of a group of 20 officials from Würzburg who worked in the city administration of Oskar Rudolf Dengel in German-occupied Warsaw . As Dengel's successor, Leist was initially the governor's commissioner for the city of Warsaw under Ludwig Fischer from mid-March 1940 and had his office in the Blank Palace . From September 1941 to July 31, 1944 he was mayor of Warsaw. In the SA he last held the rank of brigade leader . Leist was significantly involved in anti-Jewish measures in Warsaw.

After the end of the war, Leist was interned in the West and was extradited to Poland. With the governor of the Warsaw district Ludwig Fischer , the commander of the security police in Warsaw Josef Meisinger and the head of the order police Max Daume he was indicted in Warsaw before the Supreme National Tribunal for crimes committed in Warsaw in December 1946. Fischer, Meisinger and Daume were sentenced to death in early March 1947 and later executed . Since Leist was charged with less serious crimes than the other convicts, he received an eight-year prison sentence. Leist was released from prison in the Federal Republic on January 17, 1954. Investigations against Leist by the Würzburg public prosecutor's office were finally closed.

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Short biography from Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 487.
  2. ^ Peter Weidisch: The seizure of power in Würzburg 1933 , F. Schöningh, 1990, p. 122
  3. ↑ a b Stephan Lehnstaedt : Occupation in the East. Everyday occupation in Warsaw and Minsk. 1939-1944 , ISBN 978-3-486-59592-5 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, p. 56
  4. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: pp. 221 and 223.
  5. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - who was what in the Third Reich . Blick + Bild Verlag, 1967, p. 267.
  6. ^ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, p. 111
  7. ↑ Federal Archives , Institute for Contemporary History , Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and Chair for the History of East Central Europe at the Free University of Berlin : The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 : Poland September 1939 - July 1941. Volume 4. Ed. By Klaus-Peter Friedrich. 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4 , p. 260, fn. 3
  8. ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 365
  9. ↑ Stephan Lehnstaedt: occupation in the east. Everyday occupation in Warsaw and Minsk. 1939-1944 , ISBN 978-3-486-59592-5 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, p. 319f.
  10. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 354
personal data
SURNAME Leist, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer, SA leader and city governor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH 1967
Place of death Murnau