Paul Dargel

Paul Dargel

Paul Dargel (born December 28, 1903 in Elbing ; † unknown) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

After graduating from secondary school in 1919, Paul Dargel earned his living as a timber merchant until 1930. In addition, he attended business school.

At the end of the 1920s, Dargel joined the NSDAP ( membership number 533.762). In December 1930 he took over the duties of district leader of the NSDAP. In 1932 he became district manager and in 1933 district organization and training manager. On January 30, 1938, Dargel received the NSDAP's golden party badge .

Dargel was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1930 to 1932 . In 1933 he was briefly a member of the provincial parliament of the province of East Prussia . In 1934 Dargel took over an office in the Prussian Provincial Council of the Province of East Prussia . In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he ran unsuccessfully for the NSDAP. On November 30, 1937 Dargel came after replacement for Mr Fritz Adam as a deputy in the Nazi Reichstag one in which he in the spring of 1945 1 (East Prussia) represented the constituency until the end of Nazi rule. From 1938 he was Gauamtsleiter of the NSDAP and from April 1940 regional president in Zichenau . In addition, he was honorary labor leader of the Reich Labor Service .

During the Second World War Dargel worked as a close colleague of Erich Koch in the occupied Soviet Union. In particular, he headed the political main department of the apparatus of Koch's occupation administration in the so-called Reichskommissariat Ukraine and was its permanent representative. In this capacity, Dargel was also involved in the Holocaust . On August 25, 1941, he took part in a meeting at the headquarters of the Quartermaster General's High Command of the Army , Eduard Wagner , which was devoted to the preparations for the establishment of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine by civil, military and police authorities planned for September 1, 1941 . At this meeting, the Higher SS and Police Leader Russia South Friedrich Jeckeln , who was not present , announced that he would carry out a mass murder of thousands of Jews:

“ Major Wagner explained [...]. At Kamenetz-Podolsk the Hungarians pushed about 11,000 Jews across the border. The negotiations so far had not yet succeeded in bringing these Jews back. The Higher SS and Police Leader (SS-Obergruppenführer Jeckeln), however, hoped to have liquidated these Jews by September 1, 1941. [...] "

The participants in the meeting recorded by Walter Labs , including Wagner and Dargel, Hans Georg Schmidt von Altenstadt as head of the War Administration Department at the Quartermaster General, Justus Danckwerts as Head of Department V "Administration" of the War Administration Department at the Quartermaster General and political advisor to Hans Georg Schmidt von Altenstadt, Otto Bräutigam as a further RMfdbO representative, Ernst-Anton von Krosigk as Chief of Staff of Karl von Roques , the Commander of the Rear Army Area South and possibly Ernst von Krause as Chief of the Staff of the Wehrmacht Commander-in- Chief Ukraine and others not named Staff of the Quartermaster General were, despite the clarity of this announcement, remained unmoved, the project was not discussed further.

The historian Dieter Pohl described the meeting as an appointment for genocide, because shortly after the meeting the Kamenez-Podolsk massacre began, with 23,600 Jews shot.

On September 30, 1943, he survived an assassination attempt on him by the Soviet partisan Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov : Dargel was seriously wounded by a grenade that Kuznetsov threw at him - he lost both feet - whereupon he was taken back to Berlin by plane .

After the war he lived in Hanover.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is heading for a catastrophe ..." - the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Vögel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89650-213-1 .
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 13, digitized .
• Christian Rohrer: National Socialist Power in East Prussia, 2006, ISBN 9783899750546 , p. 567.

Web links

• Paul Dargel in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944. Studies of the history of awards Volume 4. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 66.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . (Source collection, cited VEJ) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria. (edited by Bert Hoppe and Hiltrud Glass), Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , p. 265
3. ↑ Quoted from the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (ed.): Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941–1944. Exhibition catalog , Hamburger Edition, 1st edition, Hamburg 2002, p. 132, ISBN 3-930908-74-3 .
4. ↑ The English translation of this protocol can be found as document PS-197 ( Concerning the conference that has taken place on the OKH concerning the transfer of a part of the Ukraine to the civil administration ) in: Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality (Ed.): Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression , VOLUME III, United States Government Printing Office , Washington 1946, pp. 210-213 ( PDF file , accessed September 11, 2011).
5. ^ Klaus-Michael Mallmann : The qualitative leap in the destruction process. The Kamenets-Podolsk massacre in late August 1941 ; in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung , Vol. 10 (2001), pp. 239–264, here p. 249.
6. ^ Participants according to Andrej Angrick : The Escalation of German-Rumanian Anti-Jewish Policy after the Attack on the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 , p. 23, footnote 65 ( PDF file , accessed on August 10, 2011) and Andrej Angrick : On the role of the military administration in the murder of the Soviet Jews , in: Babette Quinkert (Ed.): "We are the masters of this country". Causes, course and consequences of the German attack on the Soviet Union. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, pp. 104–123, here p. 114, footnote 38, ISBN 3-87975-876-X .
7. ↑ “ Basically, the gentlemen agreed to commit genocide here. "(Dieter Pohl: The Rule of the Wehrmacht. German military occupation and native population in the Soviet Union 1941-1944 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, p. 258, ISBN 3-486-58065-5 )
8. ^ Henry Sakaida: Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941-45. 2004, p. 41.