Oskar Rudolf Dengel

Oskar Rudolf Dengel (born December 27, 1899 in Waldbüttelbrunn , † March 12, 1964 in Würzburg ) was a German administrative lawyer, mayor and city treasurer who worked as a senior administrative officer in occupied territories during the Second World War . The file " Warsaw, the new German city " was created on his instructions . Dengel was sentenced in 1948 by a Polish court as a war criminal to a long prison term.

Life

Wurzburg

Oskar Dengel was born near Würzburg . After attending a secondary school in Würzburg, he studied law at the University of Würzburg . He received his doctorate in Würzburg 1923 Dr. jur. , passed the Great State Examination for the Higher Legal and Administrative Service in 1925 and became a government assessor in the Bavarian State Service in the government of Lower Franconia in 1926 after working for a law firm. In January 1929 he was appointed head of the state office in Alzenau . On November 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 698.984). After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he was elected professional city councilor in Würzburg on April 27, 1933, legal councilor from May 1933, by the city council on September 27, and from October 1, 1934 to 1942 second legally qualified (professional) mayor under Theo Memmel . Until 1934 he was NSDAP local group leader in Waldbüttelbrunn. From April 1, 1933 to 1935 he was Gau culture warden and Gauamtsleiter for the professional breakdown. On October 1, 1934, he was also appointed treasurer in Würzburg, headed the cultural department associated with the city treasury until January 1, 1935, which he had headed from April 1933 to September 1934, and was later appointed Gaujägermeister. At the beginning of the Second World War he was called up to the 55th Infantry Regiment stationed in Würzburg (as sergeant in the reserve); After a few days, at the request of the Reich Ministry of the Interior , Dengel was delegated to a civil administrative authority headed by Harry von Craushaar .

Elevation of the “New German City of Warsaw” from February 6, 1940

Warsaw

On October 1, 1939, Dengel was appointed deputy to Helmut Otto as head of civil administration in Warsaw . As early as November 4, 1939, Dengel replaced Otto as the acting mayor of Warsaw. He should quickly set up a functioning German city administration. To this end, he had a group of more than twenty experienced and familiar officials from his hometown of Würzburg come to Warsaw. Among them were the head of the city planning office Hubert Groß , the head of the civil engineering office Erwin Suppinger, the head of the surveying office Max Kretschmar, and Dengel's successor in Würzburg, Ludwig Leist .

At Dengel's instructions, Groß formed a “technician group” to develop a new urban order for the future new German city of Warsaw . Dengel presumably handed over the corresponding planning folder to Governor General Hans Frank on February 6, 1940 . Since he probably did this in disregard of official channels and thus turned the head of the Warsaw district, Ludwig Fischer , against himself, he fell out of favor. On March 5, 1940, he left his Warsaw post as part of a resettlement. According to witnesses in the later war criminal trial, several boxes with stolen works of art from the Blank Palace (then the seat of German administrative authorities) were found in Dengel's possession shortly before the expulsion .

Time to Warsaw

As a result, Dengel worked in the military administration in Brussels . On June 5, 1940 he became city commissioner of Lille . From June 20 to August 25 he served as head of administration at the staff of the 9th Army and as SS leader staff in SS Section IX in Russia. In October 1941 he was appointed acting vice-president of the government in Würzburg. In August Dengel became Vice President of the government of Mainfranken and on October 1, 1942, he resigned from the service of the city of Würzburg. In 1942 he became a member of the SS and in 1943 received the honorary rank of SS Obersturmbannführer . In the second half of 1944 Dengel was transferred to Aussig in the Sudetenland after disciplinary proceedings due to defeatism .

post war period

On April 4, 1947, Dengel was arrested by the American occupation forces in Waldbüttelbrunn and interned in the Dachau internment camp . After being questioned on June 18, 1947, he was extradited to Poland. There was an indictment of criminal acts as "city governor"; the file “Warsaw, the new German city” also served as evidence. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Warsaw at the end of March 1950, which was later reduced. At the beginning of August 1956 he returned to Waldbüttelbrunn. Investigations by the Würzburg public prosecutor's office against Dengel were closed on May 3, 1961.

literature

• Niels Gutschow, Barbara Klain, Destruction and Utopia. Urban planning Warsaw 1939-1945 , Junius-Verlag, ISBN 3-88506-223-2 , Hamburg 1994, p. 154 ff.
• 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 .
• 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. 226–228, 231 and p. 1278, note 160.

Web links

• Joachim Lilla : Dengel, Oskar , in: ders .: State Minister, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945, URL: < http://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/dengel-oskar > (February 11, 2013).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1278, note 160.
2. ↑ Ulrich Wagner: Würzburg rulers, Bavarian minister-presidents, chairmen of the district council / district council presidents, regional presidents, bishops, lord mayors 1814–2006. 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. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1221-1224; here: p. 1224.
3. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". 2007, p. 226 f.
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. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1278, note 160.
5. ↑ Peter Weidisch (2007), p. 226.
6. ↑ According to Markus Roth, Herrenmenschen. The German district chiefs in occupied Poland. Career paths, rule practice and post-history , Volume 9 of the contributions to the history of the 20th century. ISBN 3835304771 , Wallstein Verlag, 2009, p. 111.
7. ↑ Peter Weidisch (2007), p. 226 f.
8. ↑ 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. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1278, note 160.
9. ↑ According to Stephan Lehnstaedt : Occupation in the East. Everyday occupation in Warsaw and Minsk. 1939-1944. ISBN 978-3-486-59592-5 , Oldenbourg, 2010, [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.