Theodor Fründt

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Theodor Fründt (born March 19, 1897 in Krempe ; † December 20, 1984 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer, SA leader and politician ( NSDAP ). He was the main department head in the Reichskommissariat Ostland , member of the NSDAP Reichstag and district administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg .

Life

In 1914 Fründt volunteered from the Realgymnasium in Itzehoe as a soldier for the First World War , in which he last continuously participated in the rank of lieutenant of the reserve. In June 1919 he passed the Abitur . From mid-August 1918 to April 1920 he was a member of the Freikorps Lichtschlag and other paramilitary organizations. First he started studying dentistry at the University of Münster . In 1920 he decided to study law and moved to the University of Hamburg , later to Kiel . He passed his first state examination in law in 1924 in Kiel. He then was a trainee lawyer in the district of the Kiel Higher Regional Court , and from 1928 a court assessor. He then settled as a lawyer in Elmshorn , where he also worked as a notary from May 1933.

While studying law, he organized the establishment of the right-wing radical organization Escherich in southern Schleswig-Holstein . In August 1930, the lawyer joined the NSDAP and the SA , where he worked, among other things, as leader of the SA Standard 31. He became district chairman of the National Socialist Organization for Jurists ( BNSDJ ) and a member of the NSDAP district leadership .

In the general election in July 1932 and in the general election November 1932 Fründt came for the NSDAP in the Reichstag , but was in March 1933 not reelected. In April 1933 he was employed as district administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg district without any democratic legitimation . In June 1938 he became a personnel officer in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.

Shortly before the start of the Second World War , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht with the rank of captain of the reserve and in November 1939 initially returned to his post in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. After the campaign in the west , he was head of administration at the military commander in Belgium and northern France, previously he had held this position for a short time in the occupied Netherlands. From November 1940 he worked again in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, where he was promoted to Ministerialdirigenten in April 1941. After the attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Fründt became an employee of the civil administration in the Reichskommissariat Ostland , one of the main scenes of the Holocaust . As the head of the political department in Riga , Fründt was jointly responsible for the involvement of the German administrative authorities in the plundering and disenfranchisement of the Jewish population. At the end of January 1942 he was promoted to SA Brigade Leader, his highest SA rank. In May 1942 he left the civil administration under unexplained circumstances.

Subsequently, he was seconded to the Oberpräsident of the Province of Westphalia, where he worked, among other things, as Deputy District President and Deputy Reich Defense Commissioner North Westphalia. In the spring of 1943 he was appointed to represent the district president of the Münster administrative district in Westphalia. After Karl-Friedrich Kolbow's dismissal , he was appointed provisional governor of Westphalia for a few months in August 1944 . He was a member of the People's Court .

In April 1945 he was suspended from his office and finally arrested and interned by the Allies. After denazification without any problems , he worked as a lawyer in Kiel from 1950 . He practiced into old age and, a few years before his death in 1984, received congratulations from the Minister of Justice at the time for his "great services to the administration of justice". An attempt to prosecute in the Federal Republic of Germany failed: In 1968 the Kiel public prosecutor's office investigated Fründt and others because of the mass murders in the Reichskommissariat Ostland. However, the proceedings were closed in 1971.

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  1. ^ A b c Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. , Münster 2004, p. 152
  2. ^ Uwe Danker , Astrid Schwabe: Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, p. 122.
  3. ↑ Uwe Danker: The murder of Jews in the Reich Commissariat Ostland. In: Gegenwind No. 128, May 1999. ( Online )
personal data
SURNAME Fründt, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), lawyer, MdR, head of department in the Reichskommissariat Ostland
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH brim
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1984
Place of death Kiel