Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel (* 27 October 1894 in hate ford; "† 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg) was plenipotentiary of the realm government under Adolf Hitler from 1942 to 1945.

Life

1923 it became member of the NSDAP, 1925 gau managing directors of Thuringia and 1927, after the fall of the past office holder Artur Dinter, gau leader of Thuringia organized by it.

With choice successes of the NSDAP 1929 Sauckel drew into the Thuringian federal state parliament and became leader of the parliamentary group. After the choice victory 1932 the NSDAP placed the government and the VITH federal state parliament selected Sauckel on 26 August 1932 to the chairman of the Department of State and to the Minister of State of the Interior. To 5. May 1933 he realm governors of Thuringia, on 12 November 1933 member of the realm daily and was appointed in the same year the honour leader honour for the sake of a SA banner and a

To 27. May 1936 it created the William Gustloff donation in Weimar and by Adolf Hitler the donation leader of this arms company was appointed. On 1 September 1939 he became a realm defense commissioner for the military district IX in Kassel. To 21. March 1942 became Sauckel of plenipotentiaries for the work input (GBA). As such it responsible for the Deportation and organization of approximately five million of foreign workers were to Germany, who had to perform hard labour for the German industry and agriculture.

For the financial remuneration of the victims on 2 August 2000 by the Bundestag the federal donation "memory, responsibility and future" was established.

It married with its youth love Elizabeth Wetzel was, with which it had ten children.

Sauckel and the process

Fritz Sauckel was the only worker on the dock of the of war crimes trials, between 1909 and 1914 he sailor had been. During the process Sauckel was noticeable among other things by its unsatisfactory German. Its Satzbau was very much interlocked and thus incomprehensible, so that it was often requested both by the interpreters and by the chairmen Richtern to speak more understandably. Sauckels defense tried to prove beyond that that the obligatory transfer of more than five million immigrant workers into the realm under frequently terrible conditions neither illegal nor inhuman had been. It was maintained, Sauckel had had no absolute authority with the completion of this program, it was by nature by no means cruel and "only its obligation had done ".

In the Vorberatung pleaded the representatives of the Soviet Union for guilty in all four charges. With two dissenting votes it innocently to point I and II found, unanimously however for guiltily after III and IV (kidnapping of millions humans) and also in such a way condemned to death by the strand. When Sauckel heard the death sentence, he said to it only, he had been never cruel humans. Only after it it broke out in tears. Up to its execution on 16 October 1946 Sauckel believed that it had to concern with its death sentence a translation error.

It could not to seize that the codefendant realm Minister for armament and war production got off Albert Speer, on whose requirement Sauckel had supplied always new thrusts of forced laborers only a term of imprisonment.

Today Sauckel is object of the person cult of old Nazis, who hold its memory "in honours".

Document

The decree of Hitler of 21. March 1942 over the appointment of a plenipotentiary for the work input (in: Realm law gazette I/1942, P. 179). The decree generally introduced the massive and the partial Zwangsdeportation of millions of European workers, practiced already before, for the application in the German arms economy:

"The Sicherstellung of the controlling of the employment of all available including the enlisted foreigners and the prisoners of war, appropriate for the entire wartime economy, particularly for the armament of necessary workers causes a uniformly aligned, the requirements of the wartime economy, as well as the mobilization of all still unausgenutzten workers in the largeGerman realm including the protectorate as well as in the Generalgouvernement and in the occupied areas. This task will accomplish realm governors and gau leader Fritz Sauckel as a plenipotentiary for the work input in the context of the four-yearly plan. In this characteristic it is subordinate to the assigned one for the four-year plan directly. The responsible departments III (wages) and V (work input) of the realm Ministry of Labour and its subordinate agencies stand for the plenipotentiary for the work input for order. for the execution of his tasks"

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