Werner Zschintzsch

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Werner Zschintzsch , also Zschintsch , (born January 26, 1888 in Roßla ; died July 1, 1953 in Göttingen ) was a German administrative lawyer, state secretary and SS leader during the National Socialist era .

Life

education and profession

Werner Zschintzsch was the son of a forest official. He attended elementary school in his hometown and then the monastery high school in Ilfeld . From 1906 he studied law and political science at the University of Lausanne , the University of Munich , the University of Berlin and the University of Halle . After he had passed the first state examination in law in 1909, he began his legal clerkship at courts in Naumburg and Roßlau and did his one year military service in Wittenberg . From 1910 he was a government trainee in Merseburg , in 1912 he moved to the Liebenwerda district office and from 1913 worked in various departments at the Merseburg regional council. He completed the last stage of his training before the second state examination with the mayor of Lauchstädt .

From 1914 to 1918 he was first soldier with the rank of lieutenant in World War I and was dismissed from the army in 1919 with several awards with the rank of first lieutenant . He then worked from 1919 to 1920 as administrator of the district office in the Schwetz (Weichsel) district and from 1920 on the regional council in Marienwerder . From 1920 to 1922 he was a member of the DNVP . From 1922 he held the official title of government councilor . In 1925 he was taken on as a consultant in the local department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior in Berlin , where he initially worked as a senior government councilor and from 1926 as a ministerial councilor until 1933.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the transfer of power to the Nazis replaced Zschintzsch on 15 February 1933 Region of Wiesbaden to the Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Goering stepped Social Democratic Government President Fritz Ehrler . On May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP ( No. 3,495,469).

On June 16, 1936, he became a member of the SS with the rank of Standartenführer (No. 276,657). From 1937 he was SS leader in the Reichsführer SS staff , most recently with the rank of Oberführer (1937). In 1938 he received the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP . He was also the bearer of the SS skull ring and sword of honor of the Reichsführer SS .

From March 1936 to March 1945, Zschintzsch was State Secretary in the Reich and Prussian Ministry for Science, Education and Culture under Reich Minister Bernhard Rust . He represented Rust, who was often absent due to illness and had little political influence. From 1938 he was also a member of the Prussian State Council .

post war period

After the end of World War II , Zschintzsch was in Allied internment custody from 1945 to 1948 , a. a. in the Dachau internment camp and in Darmstadt . During his internment in 1947, Zschintzsch was questioned several times in Nuremberg as part of the Nuremberg Trials . During the interrogations he denied having known anything about the crimes of the Nazi regime and claimed that he only found out about them after the end of the war. He stated that in addition to the NSDAP and the SS u. a. also to have belonged to the NS-Rechtsswahrerbund , the Reichsluftschutzbund , the Reichsbund für physical exercises and the NSV .

After his release from internment, he lived in Bovenden after he retired . In Göttingen in 1949 he was denazified as a minor offender after a trial chamber procedure and classified as a follower after a review procedure before the Hildesheim court chamber . Because of his SS membership, he was fined and four months' imprisonment by the Bielefeld Chamber of Justice. The prison sentence was already considered settled due to his previous internment. Zschintzsch was married and the couple had two daughters.

Fonts

  • The German-Hungarian cultural agreement and its effects . in: Hungarian Yearbooks, 1940, pp. 129–136.
  • Karl Maria Hettlage , Wilhelm Loschelder and Werner Zschintzsch: The municipal finance ordinance of November 2, 1932 together with the establishment plan ordinance of November 2, 1932, the first and second ordinance on the implementation of the municipal finance ordinance of December 17, 1932 and January 28, 1933. Comment , R.Müller, Eberswalde-Berlin, 1933
  • The salary right of municipal officials according to the decree of September 12, 1931 . Eberswalde: Verlagsges. Müller, 1931.
  • Municipal credit . Berlin: C. Heymann, 1931.

literature

  • Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism ; Volume 2: Withdrawal to the Church 1937 to 1945 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-55730-2 .
  • Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2001 (Acta borussica Volume 12 / II) ISBN 3-487-12704-0 .
  • Peter Sandner: Administration of the murder of the sick. The district association Nassau under National Socialism , Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2003, ISBN 3-89806-320-8 .
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war, the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X .
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 171-172.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Precise life data from: Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 620.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 620.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant Child Care and the Inner Mission in the Time of National Socialism , Volume 2: Retreat in the area of ​​the church 1937 to 1945 , Göttingen 2002, p. 1087.
  4. ↑ Götz Aly , Federal Archives, Institute for Contemporary History: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Volume 2: German Reich 1938 - August 1939. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0 , p. 450.
  5. ^ A b c Peter Sandner: Administration of the murder of the sick. , P. 746.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Finger: Gaue and Länder as actors of the National Socialist school policy. Württemberg as a special case and model example in the old Reich . In: Jürgen John, Horst Möller, Thomas Schaarschmidt (eds.): The NS-Gaue: Regional Mittelinstanzen in the centralized "Führerstaat"? , Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history: special issue , Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-486-58086-8 , p. 165.
  7. ↑ Publication Number: M-1019, Publication Title: Records of the United States Nuernberg War Crimes trials Interrogations, 1946-1949, Date Published: 1977 (PDF; 186 kB)
  8. ^ Interrogations of Werner Zschintzsch, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education on May 19, 1947, June 12, 1947 and December 11, 1947 . In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, call number ZS-1670-1 1948/56 online (PDF; 2.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Zschintzsch, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zschintsch, Werner (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossla
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1953
Place of death Goettingen