Karl Schlumprecht

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Karl Schlumprecht

Karl Schlumprecht (born April 20, 1901 in Fürth ; † March 31, 1970 in Munich ) was a German lawyer, public prosecutor, local court advisor and National Socialist. He was the Lord Mayor of Bayreuth.

Life

Karl Schlumprecht attended elementary school and the humanistic grammar school in Fürth and was a member of the Bavarian cadet corps from 1915 to 1920. With the Freikorps Epp , to which he belonged from March to July 1919, he participated in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . In the spring of 1920 he fought as a member of the Bavarian Rifle Brigade in the Ruhr uprising . After graduating from the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich in July 1920, he began to study law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the same year he became active in the Corps Arminia Munich . As inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . From January 1921 to March 1922 he was a working student in the USA .

After the first state examination, he worked from 1925 to 1928 as a legal intern in Nuremberg and Munich. The FAU graduated in 1929 as Dr. iur. After the second state examination in November 1928, he was an assessor at various Bavarian courts. From October 1929 to April 1932 he was a public prosecutor in Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria , then until March 1933 a local court judge in Augsburg. In Deggendorf he met his future wife Elfriede Högn, the daughter of the teacher, local researcher and composer August Högn . From this marriage there were three children.

Schlumprecht had been a member of the German National People's Party since 1920 . At the beginning of December 1930 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( membership number 375.774). From March 1931 he was a Reich speaker for the NSDAP. At the beginning of October 1933 he also became a member of the SS (membership number 47,325). From March 5, 1933 Schlumprecht belonged to the Bavarian state parliament . On the same day he was appointed adjutant and personal assistant to the Bavarian Minister of the Interior .

On April 26, 1933, Schlumprecht became Mayor of Bayreuth , succeeding Albert Preu , who was officially retired. In November 1933 Schlumprecht became a member of the Reichstag . From 1934 to 1936 he was also Gauamtsleiter for local politics in the Gau Bayrische Ostmark . Ultimately, irreconcilable conflicts with Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler meant that Schlumprecht had to give up his position as mayor in April 1937. When Wächtler suspended two hospital chief doctors, the conflict escalated. Schlumprecht resigned as a short-term ministerial director in the Bavarian civil service to Munich, where he then headed the energy supply department in the finance ministry and the trade, industry and commerce department in the economics ministry. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht into the Sudetenland , he led briefly the Economics Department at the head of the civil administration in Carlsbad . Successor as Lord Mayor in Bayreuth was Friedrich "Fritz" Kempfler , who had previously represented Lord Mayor Franz Jakob in his official duties in Fürth .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Schlumprecht was from October to December 1939 head of the Office for Economics in the Generalgouvernement . After that he was head of department in the Bavarian Ministry of Finance until the beginning of October 1940 and in this function also deputy finance minister. From July 1941 he was with the military administration in Belgium and northern France in Brussels. He was appointed SS Brigadefuhrer on March 22, 1944. From July 16, 1943 to April 21, 1944, Schlumprecht took over the Bavarian Ministry of Economics as permanent representative of the Gauleiter of Upper Bavaria, Paul Giesler . From March 1944 he took over the business of State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and was also the Gauleiter's deputy.

After the end of the war

Schlumprecht was interned by the Allies from May 1945 to June 1948 and was transferred to Belgium in early 1948. In August 1948 he was denazified as a "minor offender" after a trial in Munich . In November 1948 this judgment was overturned by the Bavarian Court of Cassation and Schlumprecht was classified as a “fellow traveler” and fined 500 DM. Schlumprecht lived in Munich and worked for the Bavarian Community Day. At the beginning of March 1956, the title of ministerial director was stripped from him by the Bavarian state government due to his Nazi function .

Nazi awards

Schlumprecht's SS ranks
date rank
June 1934 SS-Untersturmführer
December 1935 SS-Obersturmführer
January 1936 SS-Hauptsturmführer
January 1937 SS-Sturmbannführer
September 1938 SS-Obersturmbannführer
October 1939 SS standard leader
January 1944 SS-Oberführer
March 1944 SS Brigade Leader

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 103 , 601
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The concept of danger and its usability for strict liability .
  3. ↑ a b c Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 952
  4. ^ A b c Joachim Lilla: Schlumprecht, Karl , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945
personal data
SURNAME Schlumprecht, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SS-Brigadführer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1970
Place of death Munich