Werner Feldscher

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Werner Feldscher (born July 24, 1908 in Hagen , † 1979 in Dortmund ) was a German senior government councilor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior , where he worked as a Jewish advisor.

Career

Feldscher studied law at the universities of Berlin , Königsberg and Münster . From 1925 to 1926 he was a member of the Young German Order . During his studies he was a member of the NS Student Union and joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1930 . After the National Socialists came to power , Feldscher became political party leader in Recklinghausen at the beginning of October 1934, and from the beginning of February 1935 he worked in the field of organization and propaganda. Feldscher began his service in the Reich Ministry of the Interior in 1938 .

Feldscher as a participant in the conference on the final solution of the Jewish question on March 6, 1942 in the Reich Security Main Office

Knowledge of the murder of Jews

According to the business distribution plan of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, Feldscher worked in 1941 together with Bernhard Lösener as a racial advisor in the field of “General Jewish Issues”.

Allegedly, Feldscher learned from an eyewitness of a mass murder in the Rumbula forest , in which 1,053 Berlin Jews were murdered on a deportation train on November 30, 1941. He passed this knowledge on to Lösener before the end of 1941.

On August 13, 1941, Feldscher took part in a meeting called at short notice in the Reich Security Main Office , at which Adolf Eichmann read Hermann Göring's letter , with which Reinhard Heydrich had been commissioned to prepare the final solution to the Jewish question . With an "attempt to overwhelm" Eichmann tried to introduce a "new concept of Jews" in the Netherlands , through which " half- Jews" were to be treated like "full Jews". This was - according to Lösener - initially prevented by Feldscher's prudence, who refused the required consent.

Feldscher was informed of the results of the Wannsee Conference and took part in the two subsequent conferences on March 6, 1942 and October 27, 1942.

From July 20, 1943, Feldscher headed the Eastern Deployment Department in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories .

After the end of the war

Werner Feldscher was out of service after 1945. In the Wilhelmstrasse trial he made himself available as a witness for Wilhelm Stuckart . In January 1946, Feldscher got the position of legal advisor and department head at Ev. Aid Organization Westphalia of the social welfare entrepreneur Karl Pawlowski . Werner Feldscher built for the Ev. Hilfswerk Westfalen established an efficient administrative structure and enabled the aid organization to expand rapidly. This enabled him to gain professional rehabilitation in post-war West German society. From the end of 1950 Feldscher worked as an authorized signatory at Westfälische Ferngas-AG , where he later held the post of director until his retirement. A preliminary investigation against him was closed in 1959.

author

Feldscher received his doctorate in 1936 at the University of Münster with the dissertation “On the concept of appropriation in the German criminal code”.

His book Rassen- und Erbpflege im Deutschen Recht was published by Deutscher Rechtsverlag in 1943 , in which he stated on the legal position of the “Gypsies”: “Their political, biological, cultural and professional separation from the German people has now taken place by eliminating foreign bloods for Jews. "

Fonts

  • Dynamics and order in the supply of energy , Essen: Vulkan-Verl., 1963
  • Race and Hereditary Care in German Law , Berlin: Deutscher Rechtsverl., 1943
  • About the concept of appropriation in the German Criminal Code , Bottrop i. W.: W. Postberg, 1936 (Münster, legal and political dissertation from March 16, 1936)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Löw, German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 – September 1941, Volume 3, p. 201
  2. ↑ a b Cornelia Essner: The 'Nuremberg Laws' or The Administration of Rassenwahns 1933–1945. Paderborn 2002. ISBN 3-506-72260-3 , p. 330
  3. ↑ Cornelia Essner: The "Nuremberg Laws" or managing the racial madness 1933-1945 . Paderborn & Munich 2002, ISBN 3-506-72260-3 , p. 124.
  4. ↑ The Reich Ministry of the Interior and the Jewish Legislation. The records of Dr. Bernhard Lösener: As a race officer in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 9 (1961) p. 310 / Cornelia Essner: The "Nuremberg Laws" or the administration of Rassenwahns 1933–1945 . Paderborn & Munich 2002, ISBN 3-50672260-3 , p. 115.
  5. ↑ Alfred Gottwald, Diana Schulle: The "Deportations of Jews" from the German Reich 1941–1945 . Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-86539-059-5 , p. 121.
  6. ↑ Cornelia Essner: The "Nuremberg Laws" or managing the racial madness 1933-1945 . Paderborn & Munich 2002, ISBN 3-50672260-3 , p. 330.
  7. ↑ The Reich Ministry of the Interior and the Jewish Legislation. The records of Dr. Bernhard Lösener: As a race officer in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 9 (1961) p. 297.
  8. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , actual. Edition Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 147.
  9. ↑ Hans-Christian Jasch: State Secretary Wilhelm Stuckart and Jewish Policy - The Myth of Clean Administration , Oldenbourg, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-486-70313-9 . Short bio on p. 468f and passim
  10. ↑ Gerald Schwalbach, "Der Kirche den Blick weiten", Karl Pawlowski (1898–1964) -diaconal entrepreneur on the boundaries of the Church and Inner Mission, Bielefeld 2012, p. 310ff
  11. ^ Gas heat international: Gas heat international , Volume 21, Vulkan-Verlag, 1972, p. 79f
  12. ↑ Quoted from Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , actual. Edition Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 147.
personal data
SURNAME Feldscher, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Higher Government Council in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, Jewish advisor
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death Dortmund