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| Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf, erster Ministerpräsident Niedersachsens |
Bei Willy Brandt fällt mir wieder der Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf Auslieferungsvorgang von 1948 ein und Willy Brandts Intervention. Er half dabei, Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf zu exkulpieren....
siehe auch:
Kopf kein Kriegsverbrecher dank Brandt ?
Hierzu schrieb ich vor zehn Jahren:
POLITICAL DIVISON, HEADQUARTERS
äusserte seine Sorge am 1.3.48. an den
Richter in Herford der über das
Auslieferungsersuchen zu befinden hatte:
TOP SECRET
The Polish application for extradition
of Kopf, coming at this juncture appears to be
a deliberate political manouvre with the object of causing
embarrassment to British
Military Governement and to Western
Powers generally...a decision to retain Kopf´s
name on the UNWCC (Liste gesuchter
Kriegsverbrecher) would certainly cause a
very serious embarrassment.
Willy Brandt griff ein und half der SPD
aus der Situation. Das ergibt sich aus dem
Schreiben von Legal Division vom
10.3.1948:
Mr. Brandt, the SPD Liaison Officer in
Berlin has sent around to me the attached
deposition by a German from whom the
Russians tried to extrot evidence on the
Kopf case. It is a very interesting
document, and Legal division may well wish to
examine the man further. He can be
contacted by means of Mr. Brandt.
10 Tage später meldete Political
Division an das Foreign Office:
20 März 1948 TOP SECRET
We have received from Herr Brandt of
the SPD Liaison Bureau in Berlin a signed
deposition by a German, Hans Georg
Koch, from whom the Russians allegedly
attempted to extort evidence for the
case against Ministerpräsident Kopf of Lower
Saxony.
Willy Brandt hatte eine Zeugenaussage
eines Herrn Koch aus Bautzen übergeben:
Ich, Hans Georg Koch, Hauptwachtsmeiser
bei der Grenzpolizei Abteilung I,
Bautzen, habe folgende Aussagen zu
machen:
...Ivanow legte mir einige Bilder vor.
U.a. befand sich hierbei ein Bild welches einen
älteren Herrn hinter einem Schreibtisch
sitzend darstellte. Er fragte mich, ob ich
dieses Bild kenne, was ich auch
bejahte...Iwanow versuchte mich dann dazu zu
bewegen, dass ich diesen Mann doch im
Lager Ausschwitz bei einer Besichtigung
gesehen haben müsste was ich verneinte.
Er versuchte mich nun mit allen
Redensarten dazu zu bewegen, dass ich
darüber aussagen soll, diesen Mann dort
gesehen zu haben, was ich aber
ablehnte. Ivanow dann zu mir: du nicht Sozialist, kein
guter Deutscher, und Verräter an der
Arbeiterbewegung.....”
Welche Stellungnahmen zu den einzelnen
Vorwürfen hatte Herr Kopf abgegeben ?
Am 22 Februar 1948 erklärte er
schriftlich zum Vorwurf der Misshandlung und Ausbeutung
polnischer Arbeiter auf einem Anwesen
in Sadowa:
The Estate belonged to my former wife. Only occasionally did I have anything to do
with this administration and then only as a private individual
exercising the normal
legal rights of the husband. An independent manager was
responsible for its actual
Administration. I always insisted that
no differences should be made between polish
and german workers and that they should
not be exploited or mishandled. Naturally a
normal days work was expected and
action was taken against idleness cruelty to
animals and theft. In some cases I
boxed the ears of anybody caught redhanded in an
offence whether a pole or German.
Zum Vorwurf der Kollaboration in der
Aussiedlung von Polen als Mitglied der Kommission
in Czestochowa antwortete er:
I had nothing to do with evacuation whether in my official
capacity or as a private
individual. I was never a member of a
Commission for the evacuation of Poles from
the Czestochowa area. I do not know
what office turned Jan Kuc out of Krzepice.He
came to me as a refugee and I took him
and his family in at Sadowa and gave him
work. Eduard Miara was known to be a
thief and idle. He was reported to the police
for various misendeavours and given a short sentence of
imprisonment. He may have
served his sentence in a labour camp but not in a concentration
camp. Stanislau
Klucznia was also sentenced to a short form of imprisonment by the
court at Lublintz
for theft. Wladislaus Idaas worked for
a short time at Sadowa. He left his work
without giving notice. I have no
knowledge at all of what happend to him afterwards.
Zum Vorwurf der rechtswidrigen
Zueignung privaten polnischen Vermögens erklärte er
schriftlich:
I have in no case appropriated Polish
property or acquired it in any other illegal way.
The house to which I was directed in
Königshütte in 1939 was incompletedly
furnished.The furniture belonged to the
previous occupant who had fled.When the
office of the custodian in Kattowitz
ordered the furniture to be sold because the
owner could not be found, I brought
bedroom and kitchen furniture, and household
effects with permission of the
custodian and paid the apparently fixed price. The
office of the custodian had in
Kattowitz and Königshütte for some considerable time
depots of ownerless property. When
storage costs became high and the refugee
owners did not turn up the goods were
up for sale.With the express permission of
the office of the custodian and at the
full officially fixed price I bought a few articles
(detailed in the statement). I used
them to complete my furnishing in Königshütte
branch of the main office of the
Custodian for the cast stored a quantity of furniture
in Königshütte. Here were beds,
cupboards, tables, etc. I bought job lots for this at the
officially fixed prices and gave it
freee to the Polish and German labourers families in
Sadowa without differentiating between
any nationalists.
Herr Kopf erschien nicht bei Gericht.
Die ganze Angelegenheit war brisant.
Griff man in die Trickkiste double bluff? Der
Kronzeuge aus Bautzen der die
Anschuldigungen gegen Herrn Kopf als Kommunistenhetze
enttarnte ? Wieso mussten die Berichte
über Herrn Kopf vernichtet werden....? Wieso
befindet sich der einzige report in
Niedersachsen ? War es wirklich der einzige Bericht ?
Was steht in diesem report ? Der report
liegt sicherlich im Bestand der niedersächsischen
Staatskanzlei.siehe Kapitel 22 in Vier Prinzen zu Schaumburg-Lippe und das parallele Unrechtssystem, 2006
hier
siehe auch Seite 65 in Vier Prinzen zu Schaumburg-Lippe, Kammler und von Behr
http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000019347
update:
13 Juni 2016
Erhielt eine Zuschrift von Herrn Scott Krause:
......... Your research concerning Brandt-Kopf catches
Brandt at a turning point of his biography, 1947/48. In the space of a few
months, Brandt scrapped dreams of a “Third Way” between the US and the USSR in
favor of a career in the ardently anti-Communist SPD.
If you are interested in this development, I can point to an essay I
published within the last year with a colleague in the Netherlands.
Best regards,
Scott Krause
Lecturer
Department of History
Hamilton Hall, CB #3195
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
USA
Vier Prinzen Bücher hier erhältlich:
ISBN-13: 978-8460985235
ISBN-13: 978-8461554508 ISBN 978-3-932313-90-5
