Max Timm

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Max Timm (born March 19, 1898 in Lunden ; † (after 1964)) was a German senior administrative officer and during the Nazi era head of department in the Reich Ministry of Labor (RAM) with responsibility for Europe-wide forced labor .

Life

After studying economics in Cologne, Kiel and Göttingen and obtaining a doctorate as a Dr. rer. pole. In 1924 Timm began to work in industry and agriculture. In 1928 he became head of the Heide employment office . In April 1933 Timm was sent to the main office in Berlin. Here he was initially a consultant in Department II (job placement and career advice) and there after joining the party on May 1, 1933, he was also a shop steward for the NSDAP . In 1934/35 Timm was appointed senior government councilor and in 1937/38 head of Department II (work assignment and career advice); 1939 Head of Department Va (work assignment including professional trainee management), meanwhile as Ministerialrat .

In 1942, Fritz Sauckel appointed him in his function as a general representative for labor deployment (GBA) as head of department VI (European Office for labor deployment), making him the highest-ranking official in the RAM. Timm was therefore responsible for the work, in particular for the recruitment of foreign workers, most recently as ministerial director . Since the establishment of the GBA authority in March 1942, the RAM was technically subordinate to it and since March 1943 it has also been subordinate to it in terms of personnel and thus jointly responsible for the deployment of forced laborers .

On June 1, 1946, Sauckel's defense lawyer Robert Servatius questioned Timm as a witness before the International Military Tribunal .

From 1950 Timm was department head (labor) in the Ministry of Social Affairs in Schleswig-Holstein , during which he was involved in an affair about social housing. From 1953 he was Ministerialrat, from 1962 Ministerialdirigent, his area of ​​responsibility also included responsibility for the social courts . In 1964 he retired. He was one of the people who knew about the Werner Heyde / Sawade affair about a euthanasia perpetrator in hiding.

Private

Max Timm had been with Luise, born on April 20, 1924. Schröder married. They had three children together.

Awards

Fonts

  • The transformation of cooperative dairies into commercial dairies in the province of Schleswig-Holstein (including the province and the city of Lübeck) below. historical Career and current organization of dairy farming for this area , doctoral thesis Göttingen 1924
  • Co-author: Regulation of the work assignment in town and country: A brief, clear. Leader with imprint d. relevant Statutory provisions , Munich-Berlin 1934
  • The preferred job agency for the old fighters of the National Socialist Revolution. In: Arbeitsarbeit und Arbeitslosenhilfe 1 (1934), pp. 6–8.
  • The use of foreign workers in Germany. In: RABl V, No. 34 (1941), pp. 609-617, No. 35-36 (1941), pp. 636-642, No. 1 (1942), pp. 5-15, No. 2 ( 1942), pp. 23-33.

swell

  • Bundesarchiv Berlin: Membership file of the NSDAP.
  • Handbuch (1944), Volume I., p. 271.

literature

  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , pp. 203 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
  • Dieter G. Maier: Beginnings and Breaks in Labor Administration up to 1952. At the same time, a little-known chapter in German-Jewish history (= series of publications by the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Volume 43), Brühl / Rhineland 2004, p. 162.
  • Walter Naasner: New Power Centers in the German War Economy 1942–1945. The economic organization of the SS, the office of the plenipotentiary for labor and the Reich Ministry for Armaments and Ammunition / Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production in the National Socialist System of Rule (= Writings of the Federal Archives 45), Boppard 1994, p. 48.
  • Kim Christian Priemel: Labor administration in court. The Reich Ministry of Labor and the Nuremberg Trials 1945–1949. In: Alexander Nützenadel (ed.): The Reich Ministry of Labor in National Socialism. Administration - Politics - Crime , Göttingen 2017, pp. 461–493.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

  • Max Timm's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Ministry of Labor 1933–1945

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Nuremberg Trial. 144th day. Saturday, June 1, 1946, morning session Zeno.org , accessed October 8, 2017
  2. ^ Social housing: The gentlemen at the source Der Spiegel , October 14, 1953
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 626f.
  4. ^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and doctors covered the Nazi euthanasia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished , Baden-Baden 2010, p. 126f.
personal data
SURNAME Timm, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Lunden
DATE OF DEATH 20th century