Werner Mansfeld (Ministerial Director)

Werner Mansfeld (born December 12, 1893 in Uchte ; † February 10, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German ministerial official in the Reich Ministry of Labor and from January 10, 1942 until Fritz Sauckel's appointment in March 1942, General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment .

Life

Mansfeld was the son of an imperial judge. After finishing school, Manfeld studied law in Freiburg, Leipzig and Göttingen from 1912 to 1914. Then he did military service in the First World War from 1914 to 1919 . Then he became a member of the Stahlhelm , including as a local group leader in Essen. In 1920/21 he received his doctorate as Dr. iur. (Dissertation: "Legal error and Federal Council Ordinance of January 18, 1917"), then court assessor , since 1924 work in the legal and social policy department of the mining association and head of the management, at the same time member of the board of the Ruhrknappschaft , assessor of various senates of the Reich Insurance Office and some Organs of the Reich Institute for Unemployment Insurance and Employment Services . In the summer semester of 1930 he completed his habilitation at the University of Münster, after which he was a private lecturer in Münster. From the end of January 1935 to mid-October 1937 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Berlin.

On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,787,778). Furthermore, at the time of National Socialism, he was a member of the Nazi teachers' association and the Academy for German Law , where he sat on the labor law committee. He also became a member of the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers . On May 10, 1933, he joined the Reich Labor Ministry under Minister Franz Seldte as Ministerialdirektor , in which he headed Department III ( collective bargaining law , labor law and industrial safety ). From 1933 he published the new magazine German Labor Law , he formulated and commented on the law on the organization of national labor of January 20, 1934, which enforced the leader principle in the economy. From 1936 the administrative officer, who was seconded from the ministry, together with the State Secretary (from 1939) Friedrich Syrup, headed the “Arbeitsstelle Arbeitsstelle” in the special authority of Hermann Göring for the four-year plan , which with the partial service on June 22, 1938 for projects important for armament ( Westwall ) inter alia temporarily Introduced compulsory work for German employees outside of their jobs. On December 20, 1938, unemployed Jews, whose number had increased because of their anti-Semitic discrimination, were obliged to do forced labor in separate groups for “ closed labor ”. Mansfeld expressly welcomed rulings by the Reich Labor Court, which further weakened the Jews' position under labor law and reduced their pay. During the Second World War, lower wages were paid for Poland and special taxes were levied as “social equalization levies”.

In 1941 Mansfeld had to represent the seriously ill syrup for months before Fritz Sauckel was appointed general representative for labor in March 1942. On August 18, 1942, Mansfeld was put on hold after a serious illness, withdrew from political life, but became a member of the board of the Salzdetfurth potash group in October 1943 .

In March 1945 he moved to Halle / Saale . After the end of the war he wound up the Salzdetfurth Group in the Soviet occupation zone and was General Manager of Mansfeld AG until July 1948 ; since 1947 there was a preliminary investigation against him. In February 1949 he moved to West Berlin.

Fonts

Labor law (basics, structure and economic order of the National Socialist state 39), Berlin 1938
Law on the organization of national work with all implementation ordinances, ancillary laws and supplementary regulations including the war legislation: The order of national work / with explanations , Heymann, Berlin 1934
Co-author: The legal dispute in the industrial dispute in the West German iron industry , 1929

literature

Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 123 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
Sören Eden: Labor Law in the Nazi State. The trustees of the work and the criminalization of the breach of contract. In: Alexander Nützenadel (ed.): The Reich Ministry of Labor in National Socialism. Administration - Politics - Crime , Göttingen 2017, pp. 246–281. google online version
Eckart Reidegeld: State Social Policy in Germany: Volume II: Social Policy in Democracy and Dictatorship 1919–1945 , Wiesbaden 2006 ISBN 978-3-53114943-1
Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany. The example of the Reichsgruppe Industrie , Frankfurt am Main 2006
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 .

Web links

Werner Mansfeld's curriculum vitae on the website of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Reich Ministry of Labor 1933–1945
Dieter Maier on labor administration and the persecution of Jews
Newspaper article about Werner Mansfeld in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ Ute Vergin: The National Socialist Labor Administration and its functions in the deployment of foreign workers during the Second World War . Osnabrück, Univ.-Diss., 2008, p. 106
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 390
↑ Sebastian Felz: Law between science and politics. The law and political science faculty of the University of Münster from 1902 to 1952 . Münster 2016, p. 507
↑ Christian Maus: The full professor and his salary. The legal status of the legal professorships at the universities of Berlin and Bonn between 1810 and 1945 with special consideration of the income situation (= Bonner Schriften zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Volume 4). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0027-0 , p. 396 (also dissertation, University of Bonn 2012).
↑ Irene Raehlmann: Human Factors in National Socialism: A science sociological analysis , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005; P. 225. ISBN 978-3531146782 .
↑ Wolf Gruner: The closed labor deployment of German Jews - On forced labor as an element of persecution 1938-1943. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-926893-32-X , p. 158.

personal data
SURNAME	Mansfeld, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ministerial official in the Reich Ministry of Labor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uchte
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1953
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Ute Vergin: The National Socialist Labor Administration and its functions in the deployment of foreign workers during the Second World War . Osnabrück, Univ.-Diss., 2008, p. 106

[Klee390-2] A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 390

[3] Sebastian Felz: Law between science and politics. The law and political science faculty of the University of Münster from 1902 to 1952 . Münster 2016, p. 507

[4] Christian Maus: The full professor and his salary. The legal status of the legal professorships at the universities of Berlin and Bonn between 1810 and 1945 with special consideration of the income situation (= Bonner Schriften zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Volume 4). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0027-0 , p. 396 (also dissertation, University of Bonn 2012).

[5] Irene Raehlmann: Human Factors in National Socialism: A science sociological analysis , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005; P. 225. ISBN 978-3531146782 .

[6] Wolf Gruner: The closed labor deployment of German Jews - On forced labor as an element of persecution 1938-1943. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-926893-32-X , p. 158.