Erich Neumann (politician)

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Erich Neumann
State Secretary
Four Year Plan
In office
23 July 1938 – August 1942
Personal details
Born31 May 1892
Civil servant
Military service
Allegiance German Empire
 Nazi Germany
Branch/serviceImperial German Army
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Years of service1914–1917
1934–1945
RankLeutnant
SS-Oberführer
Battles/warsWorld War I

Erich Neumann (31 May 1892[1] – 23 March 1951[1]) was a German politician and civil servant, a member of the Nazi party and SS-Oberführer. Neumann was a participant in the Wannsee Conference that discussed plans for the Final Solution.

Early life

Neumann was born in

Halle. He served in World War I and reached the rank of Leutnant before being discharged due to a severe hand wound.[3] In 1920, he served as governmental civil servant (Regierungsassessor) in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, and thereafter in the Essen
District Office.

Neumann became a Government Counselor (Regierungsrat) in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce in 1923.[1][2] From 1926 to 1928, he became District President (Landrat) in Freystadt (Lower Silesia), then served as Ministerial Junior Assistant Secretary (Ministerialrat) again in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce. In September 1932, he was appointed Permanent Secretary (Ministerialdirektor) to the Prussian State Ministry, where he was in charge of administrative reforms.[2]

Career in Nazi Germany

Shortly after the

Minister President Hermann Göring and served as its secretary until 1942. In October 1933, he became a founding member of Hans Frank's Academy for German Law.[3]

Neumann joined the SS (SS number 222,014) in August 1934, being commissioned as a Major (Sturmbannführer).[1][2] He would attain the rank of SS-Oberführer on 30 January 1939 and be assigned to the personal staff of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.[3]

In October 1936, Neumann was appointed the director of the Foreign Currency Department of the Office of the Plenipotentiary for the

Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Neumann requested that Jewish workers in firms essential to the war effort not be deported for the time being. Between August 1942 and May 1945, Neumann was the General Director of Deutsches Kalisyndikat [de
], the German Potassium Syndicate.

He was interned and interrogated by the Allies in 1945 after the war but released due to poor health in 1948.[1][2] According to the German Federal Archives, Neumann died three years later in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on 23 March 1951.[1][2]

Fictional portrayals

Neumann was portrayed by

HBO film Conspiracy (2001) and by Matthias Bundschuh [de] in the German film Die Wannseekonferenz
(2022).

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Erich Neumann Biographie". German Federal Archives (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Die Teilnehmer an der Konferenz". Haus der Wannsee Konferenz (in German). Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-3-770-05271-4
    .

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