Wilhelm Coblitz

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Wilhelm Coblitz (born February 24, 1906 in Munich , † after 1945) was a German lawyer and administrative officer in the General Government of Poland.

Coblitz studied law in Munich and Erlangen until he received his doctorate in 1933. He joined the NSDAP early on and became Hauptsturmführer in the SA . His path was linked to the Nazi leader and lawyer Hans Frank . First he worked with him at the National Socialist Eher Verlag , later as a department head in the Reich Legal Office . In 1940 he went with him to the newly created General Government in Cracow . There he became head of the Institute for German Ostarbeit under President Frank . Without any management experience, he was only able to slowly get the institute up and running with recognized employees. The academic director was initially the early historian Werner Radig . From 1943, the focus was shifted from the humanities and agricultural sciences to armaments-important projects. He was the editor of the magazine “Die BURG. Quarterly publication of the Institute for German Ostarbeit ”.

After the war, Coblitz worked as a lawyer in Zandt / Flammried. He is buried in the cemetery in 93499 Zandt. He has a son who is also a lawyer.

His sister Freda was married to Ludwig Fischer , the governor of Warsaw . With Hans Frank's wife Brigitte , she often went to the Warsaw and Krakow ghettos to plunder .

Fonts

  • The serious trespassing § 124 RStGB , Murnau 1933 (= Erlanger dissertation 1933)
  • Hans Frank, Wilhelm Coblitz (editor): National Socialist Handbook for Law and Legislation , Franz Eher Nachf., Munich 1935
  • Theodor von der Pfordten , killed at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich on November 9, 1923 , Franz Eher Nachf., Munich 1937
  • Old German art from Krakow and the Carpathian region , exhibition Krakow 1942

literature

  • Michael Burleigh : Germany turns eastwards. A study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1988, ISBN 0-521-35120-0 .
  • Dieter Schenk: Krakow Castle. The power center of Governor General Hans Frank, 1939-1945 , Berlin 2010
personal data
SURNAME Coblitz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and administrative officer in the General Government of Poland
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH after 1945