Otto Wendt (politician, 1902)

Otto Wendt (born September 7, 1902 in Belgard ; † September 5, 1984 in Bad Krozingen ) was a German lawyer. During the Second World War , Wendt was Kreishauptmann in German-occupied Galicia and after the war was a politician (GB / BHE) and State Secretary in Lower Saxony .

Life

From 1921 Wendt studied law in Frankfurt , Greifswald , Halle and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1930. During his studies in 1921 he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . From September 1930 he was a clerk at the district administration in the Belgard district and in Stettin . After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he took over the office of mayor in Barth . In Pomerania he was head of the NS district office. In occupied West Prussia , he became mayor in Konitz in the newly established Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia between 1941 and 1942 . In the General Government he was first deputy district chief in Stryj under Viktor von Dewitz , where 4,000 Jews were murdered, then in Kałuszyn under Karl-Hans Broschegg . On January 6, 1943, he succeeded Hans Mann as the district chief in Złoczów , all districts were in the Galicia district , the district governor there was Otto Wächter .

That Wendt was informed in advance about the actions of the Jews is proven, as is the case with a number of other district chiefs. In Złoczów, Wendt attended the dissolution of the ghetto by Erich Engels on April 2, 1943 . There were excesses, for example a gendarme raped a Jewish woman before she was murdered.

After the withdrawal of the German troops, he was still looking after Ukrainians in Berlin in 1945.

Whether and how long Wendt was interned after the war is currently not known, because "The personnel file has unfortunately not been released"

Wendt started in Osterode am Harz in 1949 with the city administration, in 1952 he moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Expellees and in the same year he was still police president in Oldenburg , this until 1954. From January 28, 1955 to February 21, 1959, Wendt was government president in the Stade administrative region . In the fourth electoral period he entered the Lower Saxony state parliament on May 6, 1959 for the all-German bloc / Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (GB / BHE) . In September he became State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics and Transport and therefore resigned from the State Parliament on July 1, 1959. The office of State Secretary ended with the election period on August 31, 1963.

The investigation of the Göttingen public prosecutor's office for involvement in National Socialist crimes in the General Government was discontinued on June 5, 1969 due to the statute of limitations. The StA Göttingen had not undertaken any major investigative efforts and also did not seek close cooperation with the central office in Ludwigsburg . The files of the StA Göttingen were destroyed in 1976.

Fonts

• The transformation of mining law unions into stock corporations, their cause and tax treatment , dissertation University of Heidelberg, Wertheim am Main 1930.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 403.
• Dieter Pohl : National Socialist persecution of Jews in East Galicia 1941 - 1944. Organization and implementation of a state mass crime. , Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56313-0
• Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. , Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 9783835304772
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 260-261.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 510
2. ↑ ^{a b} Dieter Pohl: Ostgalizien , Munich 1997, p. 422.
3. ↑ Dieter Pohl: Ostgalizien , Munich 1997, p. 285.
4. ↑ Dieter Pohl: Ostgalizien , Munich 1997, p. 255.
5. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 391.
6. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 372f.