Viktor Boettcher

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Viktor Böttcher (born November 20, 1880 in Sopot , † February 20, 1946 in Neumünster ) was a German administrative lawyer and National Socialist.

Life

Böttcher studied law at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In 1902 he became a member of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia . Before completing his studies with a doctorate in 1906, he entered the colonial service of the Reich Colonial Office in November 1904 , where he made it to the position of Deputy Governor in Cameroon . In Cameroon during the First World War , he was a first lieutenant in the protection force for Cameroon . He became a British prisoner of war , from which he was able to flee to Germany via detours. In June 1918 he was transferred to the rank of lieutenant captain of the reserve of the sailor artillery and served in various mine clearance flotillas. On January 21, 1920, he resigned from the Navy.

During the Weimar Republic , Böttcher was, among other things, Danziger attaché to the Polish consulate in Hamburg . As a close confidante of Nazi politician Arthur Greiser , who had become President of the Danzig Senate in 1934, he headed the Senate's foreign affairs department in the Free City of Danzig since 1935. As Protegée Greisers he followed this to the Reichsgau Posen, the later Warthegau , where he was first district inspector and finally, retrospectively from January 1, 1940 to 1945, district president of the district of Posen . Here he played a major role in the Germanization and Germanization policy. According to Böttcher, the aim of the education of Polish children and young people is to “eradicate the Polish culture and language”.

Boettcher had been a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party since March 1, 1933 (No. 3.396.391) and of the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 276.162) since 1937 , most recently since November 1943 with the rank of brigade leader . In research he is an example of personal continuities between German overseas colonialism and National Socialist rule in the occupied territories.

literature

  • Catherine Epstein: Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-954641-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 28/91
  2. ^ Honorary ranking of the Imperial German Navy, 1914-18 . Berlin 1930, p. 911.
  3. ↑ Miriam Y. Arani: Photographic self- and external images of Germans and Poles in Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-45. With special attention to the Wielkopolska region . Part 2, Hamburg 2008, p. 739.
  4. ↑ SS seniority list on http://www.dws-xip.pl
  5. ^ Mark Mazower: Hitler's Empire. Europe under the rule of National Socialism. CH Beck, Munich 2009, p. 536. Incorrectly named Hans Viktor Böttcher in the German translation .
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and National Socialist politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Sopot
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1946
Place of death Neumunster