Otto Bauer (lawyer)

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Otto Bauer (born April 1, 1888 in Ravensburg , † February 9, 1944 in Lemberg ) was a German government councilor at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Bauer finished his school career at the humanistic grammar school in Saargemünd in 1906 with the Abitur . He then studied civil engineering for two semesters . He then completed a law degree at the University of Strasbourg from 1907 and graduated in July 1911 with the first state examination. He completed his legal clerkship with judicial and administrative authorities in Alsace . From 1914 to 1918, Bauer took part in the First World War. After the war ended, Bauer passed the second state law examination in March 1920 and then worked as a judge at regional courts.

Bauer was a member of the Stahlhelm from 1933 and joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,869,475) in early May 1933 . He was a member of the SA from 1934 after the Stahlhelm had been incorporated into the SA. From 1935 to the beginning of October 1936, he headed the judges 'council of the Nazi legal guardians' association in the Ravensburg regional court district . After that, Bauer worked as a regional court director in Duisburg .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , from February 1940, Bauer was employed in the General Government, initially as President of the German Supreme Court in Krakow . Between November 1940 and February 1941 he was deputy head of the district under Ludwig Losacker in the Jasło district , where he temporarily ran the business. From the beginning of March 1941 Bauer was employed in the personnel office in the administration of the Krakow district. From August 1941 he headed the Department of Internal Administration in the Office of the Galicia District and in this function also coordinated measures for the deportation of Jews to the extermination camps . For example on March 24, 1942, when Bauer ordered all Jews in the Galicia district to be grouped together in places close to railway lines. In personal union farmer was also from mid-September 1941 to March 1942 Kreishauptmann in circles Lemberg country.

At the beginning of January 1943, farmer Ludwig Losacker succeeded him as head of office in the Galicia district. He continued his position as head of internal administration in the Galicia District Office in personal union.

Bauer and his secretary Schneider were shot in a partisan attack in Lemberg in February 1944, with Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov participating .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 945
  2. ^ A b Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. , Munich 1997, p. 411.
  3. ^ A b Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. , Munich 1997, p. 78.
  4. ↑ 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. 450
  5. ↑ Borys Lewytzkyj: The Soviet Ukraine 1944–1963 , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, Berlin 1964, p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1944
Place of death Lviv