Werner Ventzki

Werner Ventzki (born July 19, 1906 in Stolp ; † August 10, 2004 in Detmold ) was a German politician and government official.

Life

During his studies Ventzki became a member of the Association of German Students in Heidelberg, Greifswald and Königsberg. Ventzki, a trained lawyer, became a member of the NSDAP in 1931 . In 1934 he became a magistrate in Stettin and was Gauamtsleiter of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) in Gau Pomerania until 1939 . From 1936 he worked in the Pomeranian provincial administration and was responsible for welfare as a department head at the senior president .

During the Second World War , after the attack and the German occupation of Poland, from 1940 onwards he was regional councilor of the Poznan regional self-administration and NSV regional head in Warthegau . Since the beginning of the war, he was in charge of the “ Resettlers ” department at Greiser in Posen, where he was responsible for the expulsion of the resident population and deportations. At the time of the first murders of the sick (see Nazi murders at costs ) in the Warthegau, he was in the district self-administration until May 1941 in Department III (public welfare), among other things, for the care of the mentally and physically infirm : a) the mentally ill , b) the deaf and mute , c ) Blind , d) cripples responsible.

On April 8, 1941, he was appointed Lord Mayor of Litzmannstadt (Łódź) with the rank of SS - Unterscharfuhrer , where hunger and misery reigned in the Jewish ghetto Litzmannstadt . A maximum of 7,000 of the approximately 200,000 residents survived. After falling out with Greiser, he was called up for military service in the Waffen-SS in mid-1943 and Otto Bradfisch became his acting successor.

After the war, in 1952, he first became a consultant for displaced persons, refugees and war victims at the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Labor and Displaced Persons . In 1953 he became a representative of the Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims in Berlin . He was then a senior councilor in Bonn . His name was mentioned at the end of 1959 at the exhibition Unpunished Nazi Justice . Public prosecution investigations against him were closed in 1960.

Children of the perpetrators

"Ventzki - children of the perpetrators, children of the victims"

This film shows the story of a father-son relationship and the discourse that arose when the son came into contact with victims of National Socialism and with the children of the victims. Jens-Jürgen Ventzki tells his past along the memory sheets of his birthplace in Łódź, from archive materials and in discussion with those affected. Jens-Jürgen Ventzki, born in Lodz in 1944, now lives in Zell am See .

literature

• Jens-Jürgen Ventzki: His shadows, my pictures. A search for clues. Studies Verlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-7065-4961-5
• Sascha Feuchert u. a .: The Chronicle of the Ghetto Lodz / Litzmannstadt , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-834-1 , Volume 5, pp. 154, 160, 415 and a.
• Peter Klein : The "Gettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt" 1940 to 1944: an office in the field of tension between local bureaucracy and state policy of persecution , Hamburger Edition, Hamburg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86854-203-5
• Jochen Böhler , Stephan Lehnstaedt (eds.): Violence and everyday life in occupied Poland 1939–1945 (= individual publications by the German Historical Institute Warsaw; 26). Fiber, Osnabrück 2012, ISBN 978-3-938400-70-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 233.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 639.
3. ↑ Michael Alberti: The persecution and annihilation of the Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland 1939-1945, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05167-5 , p. 332
4. ↑ http://www.polnisches-institut.at/de/tipps/537