Richard Turk

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Richard Turk

Richard Türk (born March 28, 1903 in Breslau ; † November 11, 1984 ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer , mayor, member of the state and Reichstag .

School, training as a farmer and functionary of the NSDAP

After primary and secondary school and a two-year apprenticeship in agriculture, he completed an agricultural seminar in Schweidnitz . For the next five years he worked in agriculture in Liegnitz and then in Schreiberhau in various functions.

Already at an early age he orientated himself towards völkisch ideas and in 1921 he joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund (DSTB). For the first time he also became a member of the NSDAP in 1923, only to become member no.2.266 after the re-establishment in 1925 . Early on he became involved as a propagandist in the NSDAP and appeared in 1925 as a speaker in Upper Silesia .

He worked as a speaker for the NSDAP from 1926 to 1936. From 1930 to August 1931, he took on the role of district manager for the Giant Mountains area for the NSDAP . From 1932 to 1933 the NSDAP sent him to the Prussian state parliament . From August 1931 to the end of August 1932 he worked as Untergauleiter Lower Silesia and as an inspector and trainer of the NSDAP in Lower Silesia.

Reichstag, mayor and leader in the Lublin district

From November 1933 to 1945 he was delegated to the Reichstag for the NSDAP as a member of the Wroclaw constituency. From April 1934 to January 1936 he was appointed mayor of the NSDAP in Schreiberhau in the Giant Mountains, but was dismissed due to differences in administration. Until January 1940 he was again active as a propagandist, this time as Reich and Shock Troop speaker for the Reich Propaganda Management of the NSDAP.

In January 1940 he was transferred to Lublin , where the administration in the Lublin District in the Generalgouvernement was exercised. Immediately after his arrival, a “Jewish affairs department” was set up as a subdivision of the “Population and Welfare” department (BuF). At first he ran the company together with Fritz Heinecke . On March 12, 1941, this subdivision was granted the status of a department by the Governor Ernst Zörner .

Anti-Semitism Practiced: Resettlement and Deportation

Türk was very active in his position, because he hated everything that was not considered German, especially Polish and Jewish people, but also Roma and Sinti . He was marked by a decided anti-Semitism , which was also known to his employees in Lublin. On April 10, 1941, he wrote a letter to District Administrator Alfred Kipke , pointing out the need for strict separation of Jews and Poles, using propaganda to characterize the Jews.

On March 19, 1942, he met a representative of the " Aktion Reinhardt " staff , SS-Obersturmführer Pohl, to discuss future Jewish settlement movements in the Lublin district. There he was responsible for the deportations to and from Izbica , Kraśniczyn , Gorzków , Piaski , Szczebrzeszyn , Krasnobród and Opole .

According to Musial, at the end of March 1942, Türk personally organized two deportations of Jews from Wawolnica and Kazimierz to the Belzec extermination camp . On April 16, his activity in Lublin ended and on May 1, 1942, he took over Section X for “ Foreign Welfare and Jewish Issues ” at the government of the General Government in Krakow .

Activity in Cracow and post-war work

From January 1943 to 1945 he took on the position of deputy head in the department of "Population and Welfare" in the Cracow government. He worked in a tree nursery in Schleswig-Holstein from 1945 to 1947. From 1947 to 1951 he found a job on a vineyard in Hesse. He then became an independent businessman and ran a health food store in Saarburg from 1951 to 1957 . In 1958 he worked for Wegweiser-Verlag in Frankfurt / Main. Then he turned back to politics and was the regional manager of the Federation of Expellees in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Candidacy for the Bundestag and preliminary investigation

Twice, in 1953 and 1957, he ran for the All-German Bloc / Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised (GB / BHE) for the Bundestag both in constituency 154 and on the state list of the GB / BHE of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Central Office for the Processing of National Socialist Mass Crimes in Dortmund initiated an investigation against him and other employees of the office in Lublin for complicity in murder . The allegation was the evacuation of Jews from the Lublin district for the purpose of concentration for the later murder in the Belzec extermination camp.

The case against Türk was handed over to the Mainz public prosecutor's office because a witness claimed that Türk had personally ordered deportations. The witness was judged to be implausible. The arguments of the public prosecutor's office boiled down to the fact that the Lublin administration had no knowledge that there were extermination actions against Jews in mid-1942. Thus, with the letter of May 16, 1966, the proceedings against Türk were discontinued.

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  1. ↑ Klaus-Peter Friedrich (editor), Poland: Generalgouvernement August 1941 - 1945, The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945, Volume 9, Munich 2014, p. 224
personal data
SURNAME Turk, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL, SS-Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1984