Rudolf Bilfinger

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Rudolf Bilfinger (born May 20, 1903 in Eschenbach ; † August 5, 1996 in Hechingen ) was a German administrative lawyer. He was SS-Sturmbannführer and group leader in Office II A (organization and law) of the RSHA .

Life

Bilfinger as a participant in the conference on the final solution of the Jewish question on March 6, 1942 in the Reich Security Main Office

Rudolf Bilfinger came from a Wuerttemberg pastor family, his place of birth Eschenbach is in the district of Göppingen . After graduating from high school , he did a banking apprenticeship.

He joined the NSDAP in the spring of 1923 . From 1925 to 1929 he completed his law studies in Tübingen , where he joined the Tübingen royal society Roigel in 1925 , and later in Berlin . He completed his studies in 1932 with a doctorate . He then worked as a lawyer in Tübingen for a year .

At the beginning of 1934 he entered the state service in Württemberg, initially in the Balingen district office , then switched to the state police in Stuttgart in May 1934. In November he was transferred to the main state police office in Berlin . In the emerging Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) he took over Section I B1 (Organization of the SiPo ).

From September to December 1940 he was head of administration at the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Krakow . After returning to the RSHA, he became head of Group II A (organization and law). In this function he took part in several discussions on the “ final solution to the Jewish question ” following the Wannsee Conference. Between June and December 1943 was head of the SD-Einsatzkommando Toulouse in France. In 1944/45 he was again head of administration at the BdS in Krakow.

After 1945

In 1945 Bilfinger was interned in France. A French military court sentenced him to 8 years in prison in 1953 for his work in Toulouse. The internment was counted towards the sentence, so that Bilfinger could return to the Federal Republic. He was transferred to the civil service and brought it to Oberverwaltungsgerichtsrat the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim . According to a memo regarding the request for files in his denazification documents, the Württemberg State Ministry dealt with him in more detail in early 1957. In March 1965 he was suspended for work during the Nazi era and retired in June 1965. The GDR announced Bilfinger's professional life during the Nazi era in the Braunbuch in 1965 .

Rudolf Goullet, a character in Ulrich Tukur 's first novel The Origin of the World (2019), has its origins in the life story of Bilfinger.

literature

  • National Councilor of the National Front of Democratic Germany; Documentation center of the state archive administration of the GDR: Braunbuch: War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science. State Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1965.
  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930-90875-1 .
  • Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-693-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 39.
  2. ↑ Georg Schmidgall: History and membership registers of Burschenschaftlicher connections in Tübingen 1816 to 1936 , Görlitz: Verlag für Sippenforschung und Waffenkunde CA Starke, 1940. Page 156, membership number 921.
  3. ^ Denazification documents Bü 403 in inventory EL 902/19 (Spruchkammer 36 - Öhringen: procedural files) in the Ludwigsburg State Archives .
  4. ^ Rudolf Bilfinger in the Brown Book ( Memento from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Ulrich Tukur: The origin of the world. Frankfurt a. M. 2019. p. 297.
personal data
SURNAME Bilfinger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschenbach district of Göppingen
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1996
Place of death Hechingen