Karl Rasche

Karl Rasche as a defendant

'Karl Emil August Rasche' (23 August 1892 in Iserlohn † 13 September 1951 in Basel ) was SS Lieutenant Colonel (1943) and as a Ph.D. in lawyer as well as Board member and banker, later Speaker of the Dresdner Bank in the Time of National Socialism . On 11 April 1949 was sentenced in Rapid Ministries Trial to seven years in prison.

Biography

Rapid studied economics and law in Munster, Munich, Leipzig, Berlin and Bonn . After the outbreak of the [[First World War | World War I] it], he was employed as a soldier on the Western Front. After being wounded he made 1917 [in the hospital's jurisprudence [dissertation]] with the title: "The police concept in today's Prussian law with special attention to special laws" and was followed until the war ended at the [[Eastern Front (World War I) | Eastern Front] ] used. After that he became involved in the Baltic Landwehr in terms of fundraising and recruiting volunteers. From July 1919 Rasche served as a court clerk in Hamm, and moved 1921, for Barmer Bank Corporation, where he became a rehabilitation specialist. From the beginning of 1933 Fast board member of the Bochum Westfalenbank, where he also worked with Paul Pleiger together. <ref Name="Ahrens641ff."> Ralf Ahrens was:The Exempelkandidat - Dresdner Bank and the Nuremberg Trial of Karl Rasche, in: Institute for Contemporary History Munich (ed.):'Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History, 52 Jahrgang, Heft 4 / 2004, p. 641ff. </ Ref>

Rise in Nazi == == 1934 Quick was appointed deputy and from August 1935 a full board member of the Dresdner Bank. Rapid employment relationship with Dresdner Bank had also come through the intervention of Wilhelm Keppler about. Together with the Board Emil Meyer Rapid Bankers Trust was regarded as the SS <ref> Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Johannes Baehr, Dieter Ziegler, Harald Wixforth:The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich, 2006 , p. 477 </ ref> A Quick membership in the Nazi from May 1933 gained no validity, since Rapid] in the Local Group [[Restaurants] no membership card was given or even paid any membership fees. Only in August 1939 Rasche was retroactive to May 1937 to rejoin the party <ref> Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Johannes Baehr, Dieter Ziegler, Harald Wixforth:Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich, 2006, p. 95 </ ref> (Mitgliedsnr. 2,207,508). From 1933, Rasche is also a member of the German Labor Front (DAF), the Nazi Rechtswahrerbund and the [[National Socialist Reich League for Physical Exercise | Nazi League for physical education] have been]. During the 1936 Summer Olympics Rasche was deputy head of the Reich Office for professional athletics. Because of this role, he was introduced guest of honor of the leader on the Nazi Party and then by Fritz Kranefuss in the autumn of 1936 in the friends Himmler. In the SS (Mitgliedsnr. 323,879) Rapid recording was made in May 1939 retroactive to November 1938 as SS Captain. When Honorary Leader<ref> The verdict in the process,William streets: official text of the decision in Case No. 11 of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal against von Weizsacker and others with a different verdict reasoning, correct decisions d. basic legal provisions, e. Delayed d. witnesses and court officials and introductions by Robert MW Kempner and Carl Haensel., p. 274f SS reached in 1943 the rank of SS-Obersturmbannfiihrer. <ref> Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Johannes Baehr, Dieter Ziegler, Harald Wixforth:The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich, 2006, p. 482, 485 </ ref> "Following after of Austria" became involved in the expansion of the Rapid banking business in Austria and later also in the Sudetenland and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. From the mid-1930s, he served as Chairman or Board member in the war effort and also led the business departments of the subsidiaries trading Trust West N. V (Amsterdam) and Bank Continentale SA (Brussels). <ref Name="Ahrens641ff."> Ralf Ahrens:The Exempelkandidat - Dresdner Bank and the Nuremberg trial against Karl Rasche,in: Institute of Contemporary History Munich (ed.): ' 'Vierteljahreshefte of Contemporary History, 52 Jahrgang, Heft 4 / 2004, p. 641ff. </ Ref>

End of December 1942 was promoted to CEO of Rapid Dresdner Bank took over after the restructuring of Dresdner Bank, together with Carl Luer in December 1943, the Executive Group West] in [[Bad Nauheim]. <ref> Ralf Ahrens, Ingo Köhler, Harald Wixforth, Dieter Ziegler:The Dresdner Bank 1945-1957: Continuities and consequences of the end of the Nazi regime, 2007, p. 25 </ ref>

Rasche was involved in the negotiation of credit to the SS, with which even labor in SS units, and concentration camp s and financed the so-called "Germanization" in occupied Eastern Europe were operated. In banking, Rasche was also involved in linearization s in the Netherlands and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. His participation in the Nazi Beraubungspolitik showed, for example, in the transfer of Czech arms factories in the Hermann Goering Reich Works, which he carried out together with Hans Kehrl. <ref> Gerald Braunberger:Third Reich - the opportunists money: bankers, under the swastika,in: Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, Aug 21, 2005, Issue 33, p. 36 </ ref>

Quote

"who marched behind the first tank? This is Dr. Rasche of Dresdner Bank "<ref>satirical poem about Karl Rasche after the start of World War IIQuoted in Harold James, Avraham Barkai, Karl Heinz Siber:" The German Bank and, linearization ' " , CH Beck 2001, p. 154 </ ref> </ blockquote>

After the war == ==

In April 1945 Rasche at Bad Nauheim was arrested and was in French captivity. After he was questioned in Paris, Rasche was in the French occupation zone commence the activity limited to the "intensification of cross-border economic relations" for the French military government. In November 1945 Quick was appointed to exchange information by OMGUS-investigator in the American occupation zone and immediately after his arrival in Frankfurt arrested. First, he was imprisoned] in [[Darmstadt | Darmstadt] in prison and arrived after stays in Frankfurt penitentiaries in the Ludwigsburg camp 74th From there he was transferred to the Dachau internment camp, and finally came in April 1947 as a suspect for Nuremberg. <ref> Ralf Ahrens, Ingo Köhler, Harald Wixforth, Dieter Ziegler:The Dresdner Bank 1945 -- 1957: Continuities and consequences of the end of the Nazi regime, 2007, p. 83f. </ ref>

As the only banker in the private sector Rasche was born on 4 Indicted in November 1947 Ministries Trial, which took place under the Nuremberg Trials. His counsel was Egon Kubuschok <ref> The verdict, p. XXI , which have Franz von Papen in the Nuremberg Trials of Major War Criminals had defended. On 11 April 1949 was finally Rasche as a war crimes for war crimes, and crimes against humanity:'robbery and looting, "because of his involvement in the robbery of Bohemia and Moravia, and Holland's" <ref> The verdict p. 236 , and membership in criminal organizations,'The verdict <ref>, p. 274 </ ref> to seven years in prison, beginning with the 8th The verdict <ref> April 1945, p. 277 </ ref>, convicted. <ref> See Rainer A. Blasius:The Wilhelmstrasse trial of the Foreign Ministry and other ministries, in: Gerd R. Ueberschar:The Allied trials of war criminals and soldiers, 1943-1952, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 187ff. </ ref> was accused by the Aid by genocide Rapid [[acquittal acquitted |]]. <ref> house Florian Wiesner: hauswiesner2.shtml The Alien Tort Claims Act of 12 December 2002] </ ref>

Under the indictment VIIslave laborthe prosecution could not prove conclusively whether Quick had "visited once before the war, together with other personalities together concentration camp" and "Quick says the accused not guilty under section VII" because "we can not Simply set up the rule that an officer of a bond bank has been guilty by the criminal consequences that took a loan for himself and the borrower probably intended "<ref> The verdict, p. 270 </ ref>.

Rasche was released early in August 1950 from the Landsberg prison for war criminals. In Oktober/November1950 Rasche in the denazification PROCEDURE OF was classified as exonerated. <ref> Ralf Ahrens, Ingo Köhler, Harald Wixforth, Dieter Ziegler:The Dresdner Bank 1945-1957: Continuities and consequences of the end of the NS regime, 2007, p. 64, 455 Quick re-setting request, at the Dresdner Bank was not met, however, agreed representatives of Dresdner Bank in May 1951 and Rasche on a friendly settlement of its compensation and pension claims. He was working as a consultant and eventually died as a result of a heartbeat on a work-train to Basel. <ref Name="Ahrens641ff."> Ralf Ahrens:The Exempelkandidat - Dresdner Bank and the Nuremberg trial against Karl Rasche,in: Institute of Contemporary History Munich (ed.):Vierteljahreshefte of Contemporary History, 52 Jahrgang, Heft 4 / 2004, p. 641ff. </ Ref> <ref> Dr. jur. obituary of Karl Rasche in Time, Issue 38 ref dated 20 September 1951 </>

== == Work in supervisory boards

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

• 1938-1945: Perlmooser Cement AG, Vienna
• 1939-1944: Bohemian Escompte Bank, Prague (banking subsidiary Dresdner Bank)
• 1939-1944: Poldi Hütte AG, Prague
• 1941-1945: Commercial Credit Bank Ltd., Riga
• 1943-1945: West German Bodenkreditanstalt, Cologne
• 1943-1945: Tatra Werke AG, Prague
• Berlin Engelhardt Brewery AG,
• Berlin Hardy & Co. Ltd.

Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board

• 1944 Allgemeine Versicherungs AG, Vienna
• 1936-1945: Dyckerhoff Portland Cement AG, Mainz-Amöneburg
• 1939-1945: Rheinische rayon AG, Krefeld

Member of the Supervisory Board

• 1936-1945: Mülheim mining association
• 1936-1939: Junkers aircraft and engine plants AG
• 1937-1945: Winter Hall AG, Kassel
• 1937-1945: Metal Society AG, Frankfurt
• 1938-1944: Gerling Group Life Insurance AG, Cologne
• 1938-1945: Felten & Guillaume AG, Cologne
• 1938-1945: coal AG of Essen, Essen
• 1938-1945: Country Bank Wien AG (subsidiary of Dresdner Bank)
• 1938-1945: Iron and Steelworks AG, Cologne-Beckum
• 1939-1945: Accumulatoren Factory AG, Hagen

Prague * 1939-1945: Brno Arms Factory AG,

• 1939-1944: Döhrener Werke AG, Hannover
• Berlin, 1940-1944: coal-Benzin AG (BRABAG)
• Berlin, 1940-1945: Continental Oil AG,
• 1940-1945: Skoda Werke AG, Hanover
• 1940-1945: Rheinmetall AG, Düsseldorf