Peter Deeg

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Peter Deeg (born May 14, 1908 in Bad Kissingen ; † June 25, 2005 there ; full name Hans Peter Deeg ) was a German lawyer and ethno - anti-Semitic author. He was a member of the NSDAP and later the CSU .

Life

Peter Deeg was born on May 14, 1908 in Bad Kissingen. He was one of three sons of an art locksmith . As a schoolboy he had already distinguished himself as an anti-Semite against Jewish classmates . In 1928 Deeg joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and belonged to it until 1934. In 1933 he was public defender in the " Waltershausen murder case ", in which the alleged perpetrator was acquitted by the Schweinfurt regional court .

When Deeg wanted to rejoin the NSDAP in 1937, a dispute arose over the reasons for the earlier termination of his membership (Deeg had been excluded due to late payment of contributions). Deeg is said to have come to Julius Streicher through contacts with senior lawyers . The head of the publishing house Der Stürmer enabled Deeg to publish two of his books in 1938 and 1939, namely Hofjuden (1938) and Die Judengesetze Großdeutschlands (1939). The book “Hofjuden”, which is a historical non-fiction book with a long list of archives and references, experienced numerous editions in a short period of time. In his foreword Deeg thanks Julius Streicher, the patron of science and art , to whom the reader and author should thank for the creation of this work . The tone for the 470-page long ethno-anti-Semitic text is already set in the first paragraphs:

For the sake of the Jewish taxes, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg was not averse to letting the Jews re-establish themselves as sovereign suckers on the people's body. He is one of the first to subscribe to Michael. This helps the elector's finances back on its feet within a short time with extorted people's money, which he lends to the prince.

Analogously in his essays:

That is why her policy on the Jewish question culminated in the endeavor to do everything possible to let the pests of the people in Prussia die out.

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories can also be found in his book on the relationship between Germany and Russia:

But in the quiet of his dying room at Livadia he ( Tsar Alexander III ) in his last breaths violently at one of his two baptized Jewish personal physicians, Hirsch and Sacharjin: "Jew, you poisoned me!"

Deeg's position at Streicher is described as "Research officer of the Franconian leader Julius Streichers" . In 1939 he received a teaching position at the University of Berlin on the subject of the Jews in German legal history . In May, a special court sentenced him to five months' imprisonment and a fine for the unfair methods he used to promote the sale of his own works in order to increase his share of the proceeds. The break with Streicher at this point in time can probably be traced back to this judgment. After 1940 none of his books were published by Der Stürmer . In the early 1940s Deeg worked for construction companies in Poland.

In the Soviet occupation zone , Deeg's writings became Court Jews and Die Judengesetze Großdeutschlands as well as in the German Democratic Republic 50 years ago. For and against the Russian Pact put on the list of literature to be discarded. Today's research regards the book Hofjuden as an anti-Semitic work.

In 1952 Deeg was again admitted to the bar. He practiced in this capacity until the end of his life. As a result of his membership in the CSU and his personal friendship with Franz Josef Strauss , he became general representative of the Italian armaments company Simmel Difesa Spa ( Colleferro ). In this role he became involved in the Spiegel affair . Like Strauss, he also had violent arguments with Rudolf Augstein . In the 1950s and 1960s, he and his wife ran the hotels Russischer Hof and Kurhaus Hohenzollern in Bad Kissingen. He was the founder of the Deegenberg Clinic (a heart clinic in Bad Kissingen) and a member of the Society of Friends for the Restoration of German Private Property in the USA .

Fonts

Deeg's paper on the German-Russian relationship
  • Qualified aid. "Goltdammer's Archive for Criminal Law" (GoltdA) 1933.
  • Content and exercise of the right to file a criminal complaint. A criminal law study for theory and practice. Stuttgart 1933 (= dissertation).
  • The oath of Jews under Frederick the Great. "Journal of the Academy for German Law" (ZAkDR) 1937.
  • Court Jews. (= Julius Streicher (Ed.): Jews, Jewish Crimes and Jewish Laws in Germany from the Past to the Present. Volume 1/15). Stürmer Verlag, Nuremberg 1938. ( digitized in the Internet archive )
  • The Jewish legislation of Frederick the Great "German Law" (DR 1, 2) 1938.
  • The Jewish laws of Greater Germany. Nuremberg 1939. ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
  • 50 years ago. For and against the Russian Pact. Nuremberg 1940.
  • The glamorous one. Leipzig 1942.
  • together with Dietrich Deeg: On the genealogy and life history of Abbots Degen von Ebrach and Weiner von Banz. Neustadt an der Aisch 1974.

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Kürschner's manual for scholars 1940/41. Munich 1941, p. 282.
  • Peter Deeg. In: Der Spiegel, No. 37, 1948, p. 18. ( online full text )
  • The author of the "Court Jews" is less burdened. In: Main-Post (Würzburg) of August 26, 1948.
  • Isacson resigns. In: Der Spiegel , No. 25, 1959, pp. 23-25. ( Online full text )
  • Uncle Aloys. In: Der Spiegel, No. 39, 1962, pp. 29-43. ( Online full text )
  • Balkans in Bonn. In: Der Spiegel, No. 40, 1962, p. 28. ( online full text )
  • Herbert Schultheis: Jews in Mainfranken 1933–1945. Bad Neustadt 1980, p. 751 ff.
  • Hans-Jürgen Beck and Rudolf Walter: Jewish life in Bad Kissingen. Bad Kissingen 1990, p. 120 ff.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 103.
  • Many merits but also shadows in the biography. In: Main-Post (Würzburg) from June 30, 2005.
  • News from the state archives of Bavaria. No. 53, July 2007, p. 24.
  • Martin Finckenberger: Deeg, Peter. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Volume 2/1. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44159-2 , pp. 165-166. ( Online at Google Books )
  • Nils Aschenbeck : Peter Deeg - Entangled in the 20th Century: The Waltershausen Murder Case and the Consequences. Herberg Utz Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8316-4456-8 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Deeg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Jürgen Beck, Rudolf Walter: Jewish life in Bad Kissingen. Bad Kissingen 1990, p. 120 ff.
  2. ↑ September 28, 1938 Questionnaire No. A157 of the so-called "Reichskartei" of the NSDAP. Dr. Hans Peter Deeg was already known as "excluded" in October 1934
  3. ↑ a b c News from the Bavarian State Archives No. 53, July 2007, p. 24.
  4. ↑ Deeg's personal involvement is evidenced by a letter to the Federal Archives on July 11, 1938 about his (apparently problematic) appearance with the Viennese authorities. It was about a dispute between Nazi agencies over responsibility for the family archive of the Rothschild family. Deeg is referred to as "Gauleiter Streicher 's representative for Jewish archives" .
  5. ↑ The 10th and 11th editions are roughly dated 1939.
  6. ↑ Court Jews. P. 5.
  7. ^ The Jewish legislation of Frederick the Great. DR 1938. p. 6.
  8. ↑ 50 years ago. For and against the Russian Pact. Nuremberg 1940, p. 81.
  9. ↑ Kürschner's manual for scholars 1940/41 Munich, p. 282.
  10. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd, updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 103.
  11. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be separated (1946). In: polunbi.de. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  12. ^ Ministry of National Education of the German Democratic Republic, list of literature to be sorted out (1953). In: polunbi.de. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Michael Demel: Broken Normality. The state church law position of the Jewish communities in Germany. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150885-1 , p. 65, note 88 ( online at Google Books ).
  14. ↑ See dispute by means of advertisements in the Bad Kissinger Saale-Zeitung of September 25, 1962 and October 2, 1962.
personal data
SURNAME Deeg, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deeg, Hans Peter Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2005
Place of death Bad Kissingen