Mogens from Harbou

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Mogens Hans Dietrich von Harbou and von der Hellen (born November 24, 1905 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) , † December 18, 1946 in Dachau ) was a German administrative lawyer. During the German occupation of Poland 1939-1945 he was District Chief .

Life

Harbou's father Bodo von Harbou was part of the military resistance against National Socialism . After attending grammar school, Mogens studied law at the University of Göttingen and the Prussian University of Greifswald from 1924 . He became active in the Corps Pomerania Greifswald in 1925 and proved himself as a sub- senior and senior .

After the state examination he was in December 1928 in Goettingen to the Dr. iur. PhD . In April 1932 he passed the Great State Examination in Law. Then until the end of 1932 assessor , he settled in Berlin as a lawyer. In 1935 he published an article on the criminal assessment of drug addicted doctors in a medical journal . From 1937 to 1939 he also worked as a farmer.

Harbou married the law student Marie-Luise Freiin von Hammerstein-Equord (1908–1999) in Berlin on March 4, 1933 , daughter of Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord and a member of the KPD while she was still at school . The marriage was divorced just three years later on December 22, 1936 in Berlin. Like his first father-in-law von Hammerstein-Equord, von Harbou was also a member of the Berlin casino company around this time . On August 12, 1938, he married Louise (Lili) Adelheid Hildegard born in Berlin-Zehlendorf . v. Ribbeck (1914-1985). One of their three children is the journalist, Germanist and historian Knud von Harbou (* 1946 in Bremen ), who u. a. worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and as a university lecturer and wrote a biography about Franz Josef Schöningh .

After the Reichstag election in March 1933 , v. Harbou joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2.264.816) at the beginning of May 1933 . After the outbreak of the Second World War , Harbou was deputy of the district chief of Jaroslau in the General Government from February 1940 . In the summer of 1941 he was acting police director in Lublin for eight weeks . An order No. 247 issued by him as police director on the use of public transport by Jews in the area of ​​the city of Lublin has been preserved from that year . In July 1941 Harbou was employed in the military administration in Drohobycz . After that, he officiated from mid-August 1941 as district chief in Sambor and from April 1942 to April 1944 in the same position in Tarnopol . His deputy in Sambor (since February 1942) and in Tarnopol was Franz Josef Schöningh. According to a later statement, “Harbou used the word resettlement to describe the killing of the Jews ”, thereby joining the language used by the National Socialists for camouflage. In the so-called Schenk report of May 1943 to the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) , the security service of the Reichsführer SS subordinate to Heinrich Himmler had, on the one hand, to criticize some of Harbou's extra-official life, on the other hand his conduct of office was praised: "Harbou [...] and Schöningh [...] have in Their professional work, that is, in fulfilling important tasks and leading the non-German population, proved that they have an above-average format. ”From June 1944 to December 1944, Harbou headed the“ Internal Administration ”department and thus also the police in the Warsaw district . Then he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war, initially in Bremen , he was imprisoned in the US internment camp in Dachau . Schöningh, who was one of the founders of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1945 , wrote him a letter of discharge on October 12, 1945 on the newspaper's stationery. A Polish application for extradition under the London Statute had been submitted against Harbou simply because of his mere function as district chief . When extradition was imminent despite the certificate from Schöningh, he committed suicide.

literature

  • Thomas Sandkühler : Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .
  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 .
  • 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 (also dissertation at the University of Jena 2008), there, p. 479f., Also a short biography on Mogens von Harbou.
  • Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945. (= Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations of Contemporary History , Volume 20.) Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X (Harbou was on several dates with the government in Krakow, where he had to report).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Völklein : The refused guilt. Conversations with a perpetrator . Verlag www.deutsche-zeitgeschichte.de BoD, 2000, p. 109 and 134, excerpt
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 53 , 666.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Problems of private company protection , d-nb.info books.google.de
  4. ^ Mogens von Harbou - von der Hellen: The gift-addicted doctor in criminal law . In: Die Medizinische Welt , 9 (1935), p. 463, reprint in: Werner Pieper, Ed. Löhrbach: Nazis on Speed ​​- Drugs in the 3rd Reich . Pieper & The Grüne Kraft, 2009, ISBN 978-3-930442-39-3 , p. 439
  5. ↑ a b c Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. The German district chiefs in occupied Poland. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, p. 479 f.
  6. ↑ a b Hammerstein supplements, information from Knud von Harbou about father Mogens and grandfather Bodo ( memento of the original from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suhrkamp.de
  7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 96; CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 1989, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 ; P. 377, excerpt . - In 1937 she married Ernst Friedemann Freiherr von Münchhausen , in 1949 she moved to East Berlin and joined the SED.
  8. ↑ Harbou v. der Hellen, Mogens, full member of the casino society
  9. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 43. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 1969, p. 339
  10. ^ Knud von Harbou: Ways and astray. Franz Josef Schöningh, the co-founder of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A biography . Allitera, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86906-482-6
  11. ↑ Volker Isfort: The Polish fairy tale . In: Abendzeitung Munich , April 15, 2013
  12. ↑ Harbou, Knud von . ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. verlag-die-schatzkiste.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verlag-die-schatzkiste.de
  13. ↑ a b Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Bonn 1996, p. 456
  14. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. , Munich 1997, p. 414.
  15. ↑ Mogens Harbou and von der Hellen: Order No. 247 on the use of public transport by Jews in the area of ​​the city of Lublin
  16. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 489.
  17. ^ Statement from AJ January 19, 1967 quoted in: Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Munich 1997; P. 284
  18. ^ Knud von Harbou: Ways and astray. Franz Josef Schöningh, the co-founder of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. A biography . Allitera, Munich 2013, pp. 137, 146–151.
  19. ↑ The police department was under Dr. Mogens von Harbou and von der Hellen . In: KP Friedrich u. a .: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . de Gruyter, 2014, Volume 9, p. 106, ISBN 978-3-486-73598-7
  20. ^ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. The German district chiefs in occupied Poland . Göttingen 2009, p. 285
  21. ↑ "Extradition requests were with Harbou, Losacker, Hager and Asbach". Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 285, fn. 6
  22. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 318
personal data
SURNAME Harbou, Mogens of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harbou and von der Hellen, Mogens Hans Dietrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1946
Place of death Dachau