Walter Jagusch

Walter Jagusch (born September 3, 1912 in Berlin ; † 2007 ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and lawyer in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).

Life

The son of a hotelier said he switched from scouts to the Hitler Youth in 1932 . At the beginning of 1933 he joined the NSDAP . He studied in Berlin Law and laid 1935 his trainee exam and in 1936 his Assessor examination from. Until 1939 Jagusch was on duty at the prosecutor's office of the District Court of Berlin-Moabit . In February 1939 Jagusch moved to the Secret State Police Office . There he was responsible for the surveillance of people who had emigrated from the National Socialist German Reich in "Section II B3 Emigrants" .

When the RSHA was founded, he was appointed head of “Section IV A5 Emigrants”; in February 1940 also the so-called Jewish affairs and thus the supervision of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany . At the end of 1940 Jagusch became head of the Gestapo in Strasbourg under the command of the Security Police and the SD (BdS).

In August 1942 he became head of the Gestapo in Riga under the newly appointed BdS Humbert Achamer-Pifrader . Jagusch appears in the archives in connection with a dispute between East Minister Alfred Rosenberg and the Reichsführer SS , Heinrich Himmler , over property that was stolen from Jews. The Reich Commissioner for the East, Hinrich Lohse , wanted to prevent the confiscations of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD . These robbed the Jews of objects that were "not absolutely necessary for a poor personal lifestyle". On September 8, 1941, a captain Stasys Senulis appeared in the office of the regional commissioner of Schaulen in Lithuania and, on behalf of SS-Standartenführer Karl Jäger, demanded from Einsatzkommando 3 that the local mayors deliver all gold and silver from Jewish property. Lohse spoke to the Higher SS and Police Leader , Hans-Adolf Prützmann , and explained that the confiscation would fall within the Rosenberg department. The documented a four-hour conversation between Rosenberg and Himmler titled the subject with “pettiness of Reichsführer Lohse” and “ridiculous complaints” from a Commissioner General Wilhelm Kube about “ensuring the necessary needs for the SS and police”. Jagusch, as Himmler's representative, on October 13, 1941, granted the civil authorities (meaning the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg ) the power to dispose of Jewish property, but insisted that there would be a Führer decree (which Kube never saw), according to which the SS was in all of them Jewish affairs would be subject to “legislative lead”.

Jagusch was in charge of the Gestapo in Riga when on October 28, 1942 a group of “ underground fighters ” was discovered while fleeing the Riga ghetto and most of the people from this group were shot immediately. The security police then initiated punitive actions against people in this Jewish ghetto. On October 28, 1942, numerous prisoners from the ghetto were taken hostage and 108 of them were murdered three days later. In order to fight partisans, in the spring of 1943 Jagusch was in command of a battalion-strength task force made up of people from the former sphere of influence of the USSR and Latvia . In May 1943 Jagusch was ordered to serve as an SS investigator at the SS and Police Court to the BdS in Lorraine , where he worked until May 8, 1945.

After the end of the war he first went into hiding in Thuringia and after 1946 worked in Detmold as an assessor. In 1952 Jagusch was admitted to the bar and settled in Bielefeld as a lawyer. Several preliminary investigations against him were unsuccessful. In 1975 Franz Josef Strauss confused Jagusch with his namesake Heinrich Jagusch .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-87-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Raul Hilberg: The annihilation of the European Jews . Volume 2. Fischer Frankfurt a. M. 1990, p. 381.
2. ↑ Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, p. 938.
3. ↑ “ Jagusch contra Strauss ”, Der Spiegel, April 28, 1975, p. 21 .
4. ^ "If Jagusch stays, Augstein is lost!" Excerpts from the "Esprit" interview with Franz Josef Strauss about the SPIEGEL affair, Der Spiegel, January 13, 1975, p. 16 ; "Date: September 29, 1975 Subject: Strauss / Jagusch" , Der Spiegel, September 29, 1975, p. 3 .

Web links

• What now corresponds to the truth (an excerpt from the Südwestfunk interview with lawyer Dr. Walter Jagusch) Der Spiegel from January 27, 1975, p. 17 .