Otto Busse (District Administrator)

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Otto Busse (born October 20, 1896 in Sundwig , † November 18, 1967 in Iserlohn ) was a German farmer and district administrator at the time of National Socialism . In German-occupied Poland buses served as District Chief operates.

Life

Busse completed his school career at the Realgymnasium Bernburg . From 1915 he took part in the First World War as a soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. After his discharge from the army , he completed an agricultural apprenticeship and began studying agriculture at the universities of Halle and Berlin , which he did not graduate. He then worked as a farmer in his home country as well as in Paraguay and Argentina and finally became the owner of the Barenwinkel estate in 1924, Schivelbein municipality, Belgard district, Pomerania . He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 347.179) in early September 1930. He also worked as a local group leader. At the end of June 1933 Busse became a deputy district administrator in Belgard district . From January 1934 he officially held this post. After the dismissal of Gauleiter Wilhelm Karpenstein , he was also removed from office in January 1935 by his successor Franz Schwede-Coburg .

After the outbreak of World War II , Busse took part in the Polish and then in the French campaign. Busse applied for a job in occupied Poland. He was not deployed in the former province of Posen , but in the General Government. After his discharge from the Wehrmacht as captain of the reserve, he officiated from March 12, 1941 as district captain in Hrubieszów in the Lublin district. He held this position until the Red Army marched into this area in July 1944.

Busse had Jews deported to extermination camps in his district and hunted Jews with axes . On October 22, 1942, Busse issued the following appeal:

"1. Every resident is obliged, if he meets a Jew, to hand him over to the nearest police station immediately. 2. Whoever accommodates, feeds or otherwise helps a Jew will be punished with death. "

In the final phase of the Second World War, Busse was drafted into the Volkssturm .

After the end of the Second World War, he lived in Eckernförde and was denazified as a follower after a court proceedings . Later he worked as a businessman. At the beginning of the 1960s, the Hildesheim public prosecutor's office was investigating Busse. Buses committed after the prosecution's request for the opening of the trial of suicide .

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 9783835304772 .
  • Bogdan Musiał : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd, unv. Ed., Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 (updated 2nd edition).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography with Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. 2009, p. 464.
  2. ^ A b c Bogdan Musiał: German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 383.
  3. ^ Belgard district (Persante) on www.territorial.de.
  4. ^ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. 2009, p. 303, note 53.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 88.
  6. ^ Called for by Otto Busse on October 22, 1942. Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 88.
personal data
SURNAME Busse, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and district administrator under National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Sundwig
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1967
Place of death Iserlohn