Otto Bethke

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Otto Bethke (born September 8, 1892 in Suchau , † January 26, 1948 in Warsaw ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

After attending secondary school, Bethke first studied law and political science in Munich , where he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in 1911 . It was 1914 in Jena to the Dr. iur. PhD and trainee lawyer. He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. After the end of the war, he was a court assessor from 1919, later at the Magdeburg Consistory and from 1921 with the government in Schneidmühl until he retired as a government assessor in 1922. 1922–1923 he was a member of the German People's Party (DVP). He became a lawyer and was a 1922-1926 general counsel at a company in Berlin worked. From 1924 to 1932 he was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). From 1926 he was a lawyer and notary in Bad Liebenwerda , where he was a member of the Stahlhelm until 1932 .

After the " seizure of power " he joined the NSDAP in early March 1933 . From 1933 initially provisional, from 1934 he was definitely district administrator in the Eckartsberga district . In addition, he was district administrator of the NSV until 1939 . After the invasion of Poland , he was employed in the civil administration in the occupied Polish territories . From September 1939 he was district captain of Czestochowa , from 1940 communal officer for dealing with communal issues within the internal administration department of the government of the general government in Krakow and from autumn 1941 police director of the city ​​governor in Warsaw . In May 1943 at the latest he was transferred to the civil administration in Bialystok and appointed to the senior government council in the following month. In February 1944 he was transferred to the district president in Munich and from there in June 1944 to the district president in Katowice .

Bethke died in Polish custody on January 26, 1948.

Publications

  • Enforcement on the basis of a judgment condemning the non-legal association. Dissertation University of Jena 1915.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 83-84.
  • Hermann-Josef Rupieper: The situation reports of the secret state police for the province of Saxony 1933 to 1936. Volume 2, Halle a. S. 2004, p. 136.
  • Acta Borussica, New Series / ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences), Volume 2: The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817 - 1934/38: Vol. 12, April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938 / edited by Reinhold Zilch, under In collaboration with Bärbel Holtz, Olms-Weidmann, 2004, p. 526.
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography by Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 461.
personal data
SURNAME Bethke, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Suchau
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1948
Place of death Warsaw