Walter Malletke

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Walter Malletke (born June 15, 1884 in Guttenfeld ( East Prussia ), † after 1944) was an economist. During the Nazi era , Malletke worked in leading positions in the political authorities of the party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg . Malletke took part in the preparations for the raids of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), worked as a trustee for expropriated Dutch banks and as a special representative for Dutch forced laborers in the occupied eastern territories.

biography

In 1933 Malletke became head of the "Economic Policy Department" in the newly established Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP (APA).

In 1938 he was unsuccessfully proposed for the “List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag ”.

As an employee of the Rosenberg office and the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), Malletke traveled to the Netherlands to prepare for the confiscation of Jewish art property, and subsequently, between the end of 1940 and the summer of 1941, he was responsible for the administration of the Dutch banks placed under curation was transferred.

On March 20, 1941, Malletke was appointed trustee of the Dutch bank Hugo Kaufmann & Co , which was liquidated in July 1941, in execution of the “ Economic Dejudication Ordinance” . On April 7, 1941, he also became trustee of the Dutch bank Trust en Handelsmaatschappij .

In the course of the creation process of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (RMfdbO), Malletke was intended to be the head of the “Main Economic Department”. After the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941 Malletke was appointed to the RMfdbO; The former Reichbank official Otto Wörner took over his trustee activity for the “de-Jewification” of Dutch banks .

In 1942 Malletke was employed as a "representative for special questions" with the rank of ministerial director in the RMfdbO. In this position he worked between 1942 and 1944 as the “Special Representative for Foreign Employment in the Occupied Eastern Territories”, where it was, among other things, his job to coordinate the “Eastern deployment” of Dutch workers.

In autumn 1944 Malletke stayed again on behalf of the Rosenberg office in the Netherlands.

literature

  • Christoph Kreutzmüller: Dealer and sales assistant. The Amsterdam financial center and the major German banks (1918-1945). Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08639-0 .
  • Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is heading for a catastrophe ...": the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and the German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941 - 1945 . Munich: Birds, 2006 ISBN 3-89650-213-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is driving a catastrophe ..." . The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Vögel, Munich 2006, p. 76. (Source: von Harmhove: Lebenserinnerungen, p. 846 f.)
  2. ↑ a b c Christoph Kreutzmüller: Dealers and sales assistants . The Amsterdam financial center and the major German banks (1918–1945). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 339, ISBN 3-515-08639-0 .
  3. ^ Christoph Kreutzmüller: Dealers and sales assistants . The Amsterdam financial center and the major German banks (1918–1945). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 223, cf. P. 170 and P. 233. (Source: Certificate of appointment for Malletke from the auditing office, March 20, 1941, BA B, R 177, 1880.)
  4. ^ Christoph Kreutzmüller: Dealers and sales assistants . The Amsterdam financial center and the major German banks (1918–1945). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 234.
  5. ^ Christoph Kreutzmüller: Dealers and sales assistants . The Amsterdam financial center and the major German banks (1918–1945). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, p. 240.
personal data
SURNAME Malletke, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Guttenfeld, East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH after 1944