Ludwig Fischer (Nazi)
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| Born | 16 April 1905 Kaiserlautern, Germany |
| Died | March 8, 1947 (aged 41) Poland |
| Cause | Execution |
| Conviction(s) | Crimes against humanity. |
| Penalty | Death by hanging |
| Occupation | Nazi legal officer and official |
Dr. Ludwig Fischer (April 16, 1905 - March 8, 1947) was a German National Socialist lawyer, politician and a convicted war criminal.
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[edit] Background
Born in Kaiserslautern into a Catholic family, as a student he joined the Nazi Party in 1926 and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1929, eventually rising to the rank of Gruppenführer. In 1937, he was elected to the Reichstag.
[edit] Actions during Nazi occupation of Poland
After the 1939 Invasion of Poland, he was appointed Governor of the Warsaw District in the occupied General Government (Polish area that was not formally annexed). He held this position until the withdrawal of the German forces from Warsaw in January 1945.
Fischer was directly responsible for a number of war crimes, as well as crimes against humanity. He was responsible for the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto, issued many anti-Semitic laws, as well as participated in the bloody Ghetto de-establishment and deportation. He was also responsible for many terrors in the occupied city, including mass executions, slave labor programs and deportation of Polish Jews to the various Nazi Concentration Camps. He was sentenced to death by the Special Courts of the Polish resistance movement for crimes against Polish citizens. His name was first on the list of "Operation Heads" — the serial assassinations of Nazi personnel by the Polish Resistance. Before the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, his car was shot in Operation Hunting, but Fischer survived.
After fall of the Warsaw Uprising, he played an important role in the planned destruction of Warsaw by Nazi Germany. He was also responsible for the poor conditions in the temporary transit camp in Pruszków, which was built to house expelled citizens from Warsaw leading to the destruction of Warsaw.
[edit] Postwar trial and execution
Dr. Ludwig Fischer, at the age of 41, was arrested after the war by Allied forces, he was handed over to the Polish authorities. He was tried before the Supreme National Tribunal and sentenced to death. He was executed by hanging.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2008-10-19 of the equivalent article on the Polish Wikipedia.
- This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2008-10-19 of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
- Joseph Wulf, Das Dritte Reich und seine Vollstrecker, Frankfurt/Main 1984
- Ernst Klee, Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, Frankfurt/Main 2003
- Erich Stockhorst, 5000 Köpfe - Wer war was im 3. Reich, Arndt-Verlag, Kiel 2000
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