Waldemar Schön

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Karl Alexander Waldemar Schön (born August 3, 1904 in Merseburg , † October 9, 1969 in Freising ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and lawyer. In German-occupied Poland he was the organizer of the Warsaw Ghetto and thus deeply involved in the Nazi persecution of Jews.

Studies, career entry and Nazi activities

The son of a chief government inspector was Schön. After graduating from high school , Schön completed a law degree, which he completed in 1929. After the legal clerkship he was a court assessor and then, according to his own statements, was employed as a “representative of lawyers”.

On March 1, 1930 Schön joined the SA , where he was promoted to Standartenführer at the end of January 1938, and had been a member of the NSDAP since April 1, 1930 ( membership number 218.825). From October 1930 he was also a member of the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers . From 1930 to 1932 he was acting head of the NS student union in Merseburg . For the party he worked at the local group Merseburg, first as a cell chairman and from May 1930 as a trainer. From 1932 he worked as a district trainer, and after the seizure of power by the Nazis from the beginning of September 1933 as district personnel office manager and as deputy district leader. Furthermore, Nice joined the NSDAP as a speaker on: First, from 1930 as a circular speaker from 1932 to 1934 as Gauredner and finally as Reich speakers .

Lawyer in local politics

On September 25, 1933, Schön entered the service of the Saxon provincial administration, where he was appointed head of the welfare department. From mid-January 1934 he was full-time managing director of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP in the main office for local politics and in September 1935 he was appointed Reichsamtsleiter and Reich speaker for local politics. The head of the main office for local politics, Karl Fiehler , dismissed Schön and his colleague Müller from the management at the end of 1938 due to internal differences and arbitrary actions. Then he worked in the legal office of the NSDAP Reich leadership. At that time he lived in Munich.

Organizer of the Warsaw Ghetto

After the beginning of the Second World War , Schön was deployed from mid-January 1940 in the Warsaw district of the so-called General Government. Governor General Hans Frank and District Governor Ludwig Fischer were already known to Schön from party connections. From January 19, 1940, he headed the department with the euphemistic designation resettlement of the district administration in Warsaw. The area of ​​responsibility of this department comprised "the ethnic segregation of the inhabitants [...], in particular [...] the expulsion of Jews from the Warsaw area to the Warsaw Ghetto". In addition to organizing the deportation of the Jewish population from the Warsaw area to the Warsaw Ghetto, the resettlement department also confiscated their belongings. On November 16, 1940, Schön had 3,770 Jewish shops sealed by the police for the purpose of transferring the goods. At a workshop in Warsaw on January 20, 1941, Schön gave a lecture on the history of the formation of the Warsaw Ghetto in the presence of Governor General Frank. In this context he referred to Jews as "germ carriers", from which he saw a "political and moral requirement" to isolate Jews in ghettos. He also stated that the resettlement department had resumed “preparatory work for the formation of Jewish residential districts in the Warsaw district” in the spring of 1940 and had preferred the “formation of two suburban ghettos”. Due to the Madagascar plan, however, these preparations were temporarily suspended and only resumed by the health department in August 1940. Information from Schön's 25-page report is given in the first part of the Stroop report . From March 1941 he headed the internal administration department in the Warsaw district office. At the beginning of 1943 he took leave of absence from the Reich leadership of the NSDAP .

After the end of the war

After the end of the war, Schön lived in Bavaria and made his living as an employee from 1950 and as a lawyer from 1958. The Munich public prosecutor's office was investigating Schön in connection with the Warsaw Ghetto crime complex, but the investigations “could not substantiate any concrete suspicion of murder; However, Schön was found guilty of false testimony in connection with the events in Warsaw, but otherwise remained unpunished. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 555.
  2. ↑ a b Joseph Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors , Berlin 1961, p. 327
  3. ^ A b Joseph Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors , Berlin 1961, p. 327f.
  4. ↑ a b c Stephan Lehnstaedt: Occupation in the East. Everyday occupation in Warsaw and Minsk 1939–1944 , Munich 2010, p. 60
  5. ↑ Ulrike Haerendel: Municipal Housing Policy in the Third Reich: Settlement ideology , small house construction and "Housing conversion" using Munich as an example . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-486-56389-0 , p. 97
  6. ↑ Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 4: Poland - September 1939-July 1941 , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58525- 4 , p. 416, note 3
  7. ↑ a b c Joseph Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors , Berlin 1961, p. 329
  8. ↑ a b Magnus Brechtken : " Madagascar for the Jews". Anti-Semitic Idea and Political Practice 1885–1945. Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56240-1 , pp. 274f.
  9. ^ Joseph Wulf: The Third Reich and its executors , Berlin 1961, p. 328
  10. ↑ Stephan Lehnstaedt: occupation in the east. Everyday occupation in Warsaw and Minsk 1939–1944 , Munich 2010, p. 324
  11. ↑ In Klee's personal dictionary under the Lemma Schön, Karl
personal data
SURNAME Fine, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schön, Karl Alexander Waldemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1969
Place of death Freising