Max Frauendorfer

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Max Frauendorfer (born June 14, 1909 in Munich , † July 25, 1989 in Tutzing ) was a German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer , Reich trainer in the Rosenberg office and president of the main office for work in the Generalgouvernement .

Early years

Frauendorfer, son of a lawyer, completed his school career at the humanistic Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich in 1928 with the Abitur . He then completed a degree in economics , newspaper and law at the universities of Munich , Berlin and Erlangen , which he completed in October 1931. He then worked as a trainee lawyer at the Munich District Court. Early in 1933 his doctorate he with his dissertation " self-defense law enforcement officers " to Dr. jur.

time of the nationalsocialism

Frauendorfer joined the NSDAP in 1928 ( membership number 85.562) and SS (SS number 1.281). At the same time he became a member of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB). As early as 1929 he was volunteering in the economic policy department of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. Frauendorfer was managing director in the early 1930s under the head of the news department Karl Leon Du Moulin-Eckart in the Supreme SA leadership (OSAF).

He also acted as a Gau speaker in Munich and volunteered as editor for the Illustrierter Beobachter . Heinrich Himmler , who became aware of Frauendorfer, took the young officer in the spring of 1932, for example. b. V. joined the Reichsführer SS staff , where he was deployed until the mid-1930s. From mid-March 1933 to mid-May 1933, Frauendorfer was finally adjutant to the Munich police chief Heinrich Himmler.

In the NSDAP he became a domestic policy advisor in November 1931 ("Referat Ständischeraufbau") in the Reich leadership and from June 1933 headed the Office for the Estates Structure of the German Labor Front (DAF). In the DAF he was also deputy head of the organization office from May 1934 and head of the training office from the end of 1934.

In September 1934, Frauendorfer, now head of the office, succeeded Otto Gohde as Reich trainer in the Rosenberg office at the instigation of Robert Ley . In the training office , Frauendorfers tasks included:

  • Training of political leaders
  • Responsibility for the party schools
  • Publication of the "training letters" from DAF and NSDAP

His superior, the party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg , only learned from the newspaper about the change in staff in the training office. Frauendorfer himself was later informed by Ley that the reason for Gohde's replacement was his attachment to Rosenberg.

Frauendorfer, who in the course of his work as a trainer in the Rosenberg office increasingly got between the fronts of the inner-party opponents Ley and Rosenberg, finally had to give up his position as Reich trainer in the Rosenberg office in mid-May 1936. Friedrich Schmidt was his successor . In the same month his employment with the DAF ended. As early as February 1936, his employment in the “Office for the Development of Estates” had already been completed, as the concept of the Estates became increasingly less important within the party and the office was therefore dissolved. These events did not harm Frauendorfers career, however, as he was now able to continue to work as head of the Reich Main Office through Hans Frank in the party's own Reich Legal Office. At the magazine "Deutsche Verwaltung" , a publication of the National Socialist Legal Guardians Association (NSRB), he now acted as chief editor.

On leave from work for four months, Frauendorfer was able to take his second state examination as a lawyer in May 1938, taking into account periods of service, and then worked as a trainee lawyer. His main focus was on wage and labor policy.

Second World War

After the beginning of the Second World War , Frauendorfer was transferred to the General Government together with State Secretary Johannes Krohn . Krohn and Frauendorfer were supposed to set up the social administration there. On November 18, 1939, Frauendorfer was appointed by the Governor General Hans Frank as Krohn's successor as head of the main Labor Office in the Government General, where he was mainly responsible for the coordination of registration, forced recruitment and the deployment of Polish and Jewish workers. The headquarters of the main Labor Office with seven affiliated departments was located in Krakow . A total of 4,300 employees, including 700 German citizens, were employed in this labor authority, which had 75 branches and 20 labor offices in the Generalgouvernement. Frauendorfer initially relied on the recruitment of “voluntary” workers from the Generalgouvernement and refused any coercive measures in this regard. However, since not enough Polish volunteers registered for work in the German Reich, from the spring of 1940 the Polish communities were obliged to assign a certain contingent of workers for work in the German Reich . Since Frauendorfer did not meet the civil service requirements for the title of Government Councilor, he was appointed "Reich Trustee for Labor" at the end of September 1941 and one year later President of the General Office for Labor in the Government General.

Frauendorfer, who had known the " final solution " plans by mid-December 1941 at the latest , preferred to use the labor of Polish Jews and came into conflict with the "final solution fanatics" at the Reich Main Security Office . In June 1942, responsibility for the work of the Jewish population was returned to the SS and police authorities of the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF Ost) in the General Government of Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger . Frauendorfer agreed with Heinrich Himmler in October 1942 an honorable resignation from the office of work and the transfer to the Waffen SS after a vacation. A short time later, Fritz Sauckel tried to poach Frauendorfer as a personal representative for the Netherlands, but Himmler refused, with reference to a possible exclusion of Frauendorfers from the SS if he accepted Sauckel's offer. As Frauendorfer received his salary as head of labor administration in the Generalgouvernement despite the ban, investigations against Frauendorfer were initiated after Krüger intervened in the SS judiciary, but these did not lead to any significant results. The proceedings were discontinued by Himmler in March 1945.

On December 1, 1942, Frauendorfer was given leave of absence from his post as President of the Main Labor Office. After a stay in hospital due to illness, he was called up to the Wehrmacht in February 1943 and not as planned to the Waffen-SS, where he did his military service with a flak battery in Landsberg am Lech . His discharge from the Wehrmacht took place on April 26, 1945.

Frauendorfer, who increasingly distanced himself from National Socialism , had loose connections to the resistance circle around SS group leader Arthur Nebe . Ulrich von Hassell wrote the following in his diary in December 1942:

“Frauendorfer, SS man and holder of the golden badge , was also extremely impressive because of his unlimited despair over what he experiences hourly and daily in Poland, and what is so terrible that he can no longer stand it and himself as a simple soldier wants to [report] to the front. Permanent unspeakable murder of Jews in large containers. SS men drive through the ghetto with submachine guns after the hour set as the end of the freedom to go out and shoot everything that shows up, for example children playing who are unfortunately a little longer on the street. "

- Ulrich von Hassell : Diary entry from December 20, 1942

After the end of the war

After the end of the war, Frauendorfer appeared incognito alias “Dr. Schreiter ”with his wife in the Allgäu and in Munich. In October 1950, through intermediaries, he asked the American authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany to show whether he still had to fear extradition to Poland . After this was denied by the American side, Frauendorfer used his real name again. He submitted to a judicial tribunal procedure in which, in addition to Persil notes, he also cited Hassel's diary entries. Nevertheless, Frauendorfer was classified as the main victim in January 1951, so he received a fine, the loss of his pension and the prohibition of exercising a public office. After a revision , the proceedings were discontinued and the previously imposed sentence was lifted. He then resumed his professional activity and became a senior executive at Allianz Insurance , where he most recently held the position of director for the industrial sector.

He joined the CSU on December 13, 1956. There he soon rose to become the party's second treasurer and was the CSU's candidate for the Bavarian state election in November 1958 . Due to criticism of Frauendorfer's Nazi past inside and outside the CSU, however, his candidacy failed. For the same reason, his planned entry into the Bundestag as a replacement for MP Gerhard Wacher failed in early 1963 . The CSU party chairman Franz Josef Strauss protected Frauendorfer, criticism of Frauendorfer's planned entry into the Bundestag came, among others, from Agriculture Minister Alois Hundhammer . This was followed by investigative proceedings, opened in 1963 and later discontinued, regarding his activities during the Nazi era . In addition, any pension entitlements from his work in the Generalgouvernement were not recognized in one procedure. Frauendorfer died in Tutzing at the end of July 1989.

Frauendorfers SS ranks
date rank
March 1932 SS-Untersturmführer
November 1933 SS-Hauptsturmführer
December 1934 SS-Sturmbannführer
April 1935 SS-Obersturmbannführer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Thomas Schlemmer : Limits of Integration. The CSU and Dealing with the National Socialist Past - The Dr. Max Frauendorfer . Munich 2000, p. 677f.
  2. a b Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 948
  3. a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 162.
  4. ^ Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925-1933. An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002, p. 253
  5. Thomas Schlemmer: Limits to Integration. The CSU and Dealing with the National Socialist Past - The Dr. Max Frauendorfer . Munich 2000, p. 680f.
  6. Reinhard Bollmus: The office of Rosenberg and its opponents . P. 85
  7. ^ A b Thomas Schlemmer: Limits to Integration. The CSU and Dealing with the National Socialist Past - The Dr. Max Frauendorfer . Munich 2000, pp. 684f.
  8. Thomas Schlemmer: Limits to Integration. The CSU and Dealing with the National Socialist Past - The Dr. Max Frauendorfer . Munich 2000, p. 689ff.
  9. a b c Thomas Schlemmer: Limits of Integration. The CSU and Dealing with the National Socialist Past - The Dr. Max Frauendorfer . Munich 2000, p. 696ff.
  10. Heinz Höhne : The order under the skull - The history of the SS . Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-89350-549-0 , p. 474 .
  11. ^ Ulrich von Hassell: The Hassell Diaries 1938-1944. Records from the other Germany , Ed. Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen , Siedler, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88680-017-2 , p. 340 f.
  12. Thomas Schlemmer: Limits to Integration. The CSU and Dealing with the National Socialist Past - The Dr. Max Frauendorfer . Munich 2000, p. 701ff.
  13. Mild gifts . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1963, p. 41 ( online ).
  14. Der SPIEGEL reported… In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1963, pp. 86 ( online ).
  15. Otto v. Loewenstern: Max Frauendorfers camouflage arts - contemporary historical studies of the CSU - demand for general amnesty Munich . In: Die Zeit , No. 25/1963
  16. Thomas Schlemmer: Limits to Integration. The CSU and Dealing with the National Socialist Past - The Dr. Max Frauendorfer . Munich 2000, p. 717.