Walter Bargatzky

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Walter Bargatzky (born April 13, 1910 in Baden-Baden ; † November 4, 1998 in Bonn ) was a lawyer , State Secretary and President of the German Red Cross .

Life

Career start

Born on April 13, 1910 in Baden-Baden as the son of the director of the girls' secondary school, Eugen Bargatzky, Walter Bargatzky studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin . From November 1, 1933 to August 19, 1937 he was a member of the SA , joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 ( membership number 4.140.825). He worked as a block manager in Karlsruhe and received the assessment politically reliable . After the second state examination , he was employed as an assessor at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court from 1935 to 1938 , from where he was seconded to the Reich Ministry of Justice for a few months in early 1939 . In August 1941 Bargatzky was appointed First Public Prosecutor and assigned to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court by the RMJ.

Employee of the military commander in France

Drafted at the beginning of the war, Walter Bargatzky was transferred to Paris in 1940 as a civil servant to the German military commander in France . There he was a member of the “Justice” department in the administrative staff and at times personal assistant to Jonathan Schmid , the head of the administrative staff of the military commander-in-chief. There, in the famous Art Nouveau Hotel Majestic, today's Hotel The Peninsula Paris , Bargatzky met a motley troop of military and senior officials, whose unifying bond was the common sympathy for France. Otherwise they lived in a "strange vacuum between political constraints and complete independence". For a long time he fought with legal opinions against the illegal transfer of art and cultural goods from France to Germany, albeit without success. His resistant actions almost inevitably made him come into contact with the military opposition that formed in Paris from 1943/1944. Although not a member of the inner circle of the resistance, after a planned assassination attempt on Hitler he was designated as a prosecutor for the tribunal to be held over the heads of the Paris security service and the Gestapo . Bargatzky was well aware of the risk he was taking. Since no direct connections to the military resistance could be proven, Bargatzky stayed in Paris after the failure of the uprising of July 20, 1944 , from where he withdrew with the rest of the German troops in August 1944. Despite his alleged contacts to the resistance, Bargatzky began his service at the Karlsruhe regional court and was finally appointed regional court director there in October 1944.

post war period

In the Wilhelmstrasse Trial in Nuremberg in 1948, Bargatzky was an exonerating witness for State Secretary Ernst von Weizsäcker, who was then convicted of crimes against humanity .

The Baden-Baden military commander Moutenet appointed Bargatzky as police director of his hometown in October 1945. In April 1948 Walter Bargatzky was appointed the first presiding judge (director) of the newly established administrative court in Freiburg im Breisgau . In the same year he served as Secretary General of the Secretariat of the West German state governments in Frankfurt am Main .

After founding the Federal Republic of Germany, Bargatzky continued his career in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, most recently as Ministerial Director and Head of Department VI ÖS (Public Security). The establishment of the Federal Border Guard is largely his work. Under Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard ( CDU) in 1963, at the suggestion of Federal Minister Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (CDU), he was promoted to State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health . In 1966, with the start of the grand coalition , Bargatzky was put into temporary retirement at her own initiative by the new Federal Minister of Health, Käte Strobel ( SPD ), due to a lack of trust .

Since 1950 he was Vice President of the German Red Cross (DRK), whose President he became after his retirement in 1967 and remained until 1982. The GDR press headlined "West German DRK President with a Brown Past" ( Sächsische Zeitung of August 4, 1967).

Walter Bargatzky died on November 4, 1998 in Bonn. He was married to Camilla von Spruner since 1944.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • The sense of English mainland politics. Speeches and writings of British statesmen from two decades . CH Beck, Munich 1939
  • Creative peace . Alber, Freiburg 1946 (2nd edition 1947)
  • Smuts. Victory of a vanquished , Munich 1948
  • Gun law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Text output with introduction . Beck, Munich 1951
  • Red Cross and War Prevention Lecture . German Red Cross, Bonn 1956
  • The universe is alive: Thoughts on the organic structure of the universe , Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf and Vienna 1978
  • Essays about the Red Cross: collected for the 70th birthday of DRK President Walter Bargatzky. Hachenburg printing works, Hachenburg 1980
  • Events of the Hitler attack on July 20, 1944, which took place in Paris . published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on July 14, 1984
  • Hotel Majestic - a German in occupied France. Foreword by Peter Scholl-Latour, Herder, Freiburg 1987

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P-files in the Federal Archives holdings BDC cited from Brunner.
  2. ↑ See Nadler (Reich Ministry of Justice) to Walter Bargatzky, September 12, 1941, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, W. Bargatzky, 240, access 1999-66, no.17.
  3. ↑ See Letz (Reich Ministry of Justice) to Walter Bargatzky, November 21, 1944, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, W. Bargatzky, 240, access 1999-66, No. 17.
  4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.

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personal data
SURNAME Bargatzky, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, State Secretary and President of the German Red Cross
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1998
Place of death Bonn