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by Ludger » 01 Mar 2009 18:23
RASCHE, KARL EMIL AUGUST; DR. JUR.
"Who marches right behind the first tank? It's Dr. Rasche from the Dresdner Bank." (joke-rhyme; quoted from a letter of the the chief of the Krefeld branch of the Dresdner Bank, Mr. Krefels to Karl Rasche dated 17.09.1943; source: Enzensberger, Hans Magnus (Hrsgb.; 1986: OMGUS – Ermittlungen gegen die Dresdner Bank, S. VII])
SS-Ostubaf.
Speaker, Executive Board of Directors/Dresdner Bank
Date of birth : 23.08.1892 (Iserlohn)
Date of death : 1951
NSDAP-No. : 2 207 508
SS-No. : 323 879
Attended the High School in Iserlohn. Afterwards he studied law, political economy and History in Münster, Munich, Berlin, Leipzig und Bonn. After that he became a lawyer in Düsseldorf.
1933 Member, Executive Board of Directors, Westfälische Bank (Bochum); later Speaker, Executive Board of Directors.
1934 Deputy Member, Executive Board of Directors, Dresdner Bank (Berlin).
1935 Full Member, Executive Board of Directors, Dresdner Bank (Berlin).
1936 member, "Keppler-Circle" ["Keppler-Kreis"].
(The "Keppler Circle [Keppler-Kreis]" was a council consisting of twelve top economy and finance leaders who donated 1 Mio. Reichsmark per year to Himmler's free disposition. They met for the first time on 20.06.1932 and prepared the first meeting between Hitler and Reichskanzler FRANZ VON PAPEN on 04.01.1933. The "Keppler Circle was the predecessor of the " Himmler Circle of Friends [Freundeskreis RFSS]).
09.11.1938 member of the SS.
1940 member of the NSDAP.
30.01.1941 SS-Stubaf.
20.04.1943 SS-Ostubaf.
1945 Speaker, Executive Board of Directors/Dresdner Bank.
further tasks:
· Chairman, Supervisory Board of Directors:
1938 – 1945: Perlmooser Cement AG, Wien
1939 – 1944: Böhmische Escompte Bank, Prag (Tochterbank der Dresdner Bank)
1939 – 1944: Poldi-Hütte AG, Prag
1941 – 1945: Handels-Kreditbank AG, Riga
1943 – 1945: Westdeutsche Bodenkreditanstalt, Köln
1943 – 1945: Tatrawerke AG, Prag
Engelhardt Brauerei AG, Berlin
Hardy & Co GmbH, Berlin
· Deputy Chairman, Supervisory Board of Directors:
1944: Allgemeine Versicherungs AG, Wien
1936 – 1945: Dyckerhoff-Portland-Cement-AG, Mainz-Amöneburg
1939 – 1945: Rheinische Kunstseide AG, Krefeld
· Member, Supervisory Board of Directors:
1936 – 1945: Mülheimer Bergwerksverein
Jul. 1936 – Apr. 1939: Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG
1937 – 1945: Wintershall AG, Kassel
1937 – 1945: Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt
1938 – 1944: Gerling-Konzern Lebensversicherungs AG, Köln
1938 – 1945: Felten & Guilleaume AG, Köln
1938 – 1945: Essener Steinkohlen AG, Essen
1938 – 1945: Länderbank Wien AG (Tochtergesellschaft der Dresdner Bank)
1938 – 1945: Eisen- und Hüttenwerke AG, Köln-Beckum
1939 – 1945: Accumulatoren-Fabrik AG, Hagen
1939 – 1945: Brünner Waffen Fabrik AG, Prag
1939 – 1944: Doehrener Werke AG, Hannover
1940 – 1944: Braunkohle-Benzin AG (BRABAG), Berlin
1940 – 1945: Kontinentale Öl AG, Berlin
1940 – 1945: Skoda werke AG, Hannover
1940 – 1945: Rheinmetall AG, Düsseldorf
· Chairman, Executive Board of Directors:
BEB-Bank
memberships:
· Himmler Circle of Friends [Freundeskreis RFSS]
· 1933: German Labor Front [Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF)]
· 1933: NS Legal Workers' Association [NS-Rechtswahrerbund]
· 1933: NS Association for Gymnastics [NS-Bund für Leibesübungen]
awards:
· EK I
· Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
· Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz
· SS-Totenkopfring
post war:
21.11.1945 arrested.
20.12.1947 – 14.04.1949 defendant in the trial "US vs. Ernst von Weizsäcker et al. (The Ministries-Case)" before US-Military Tribunal IV-A in Nuremberg.
Counts : IV, V, VI, VII, VIII
Findings : VI, VIII
I = Crimes against peace: Participation in the planning, preparation, initiation and waging of wars of agrgression and invasion of other countries; II = Participation an a common plan and conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, including war crimes and crimes against humanity; III = War crimes: The murder and ill-treatment of belligerents and prisoners of war; IV = Crimes against humanity: atrocities and offenses committed against German nationals on political, racial and religious grounds; V = War crimes and crimes against humanity: atrocities and offenses committed against civilian populations; VI = War crimes and crimes against humanity: plunder ans spoliation; VII = War crimes and crimes against humanity: pertaining to slave labor; VIII = Membership in criminal organizations
Sentence : 7 years
Counsel : Dr. Egon Kubuschok
Assistants : Dr. Hubertus Janicki; Franz Zdralek (since 26.03.1948); Dr. Adolf Schäfer (since 14.04.1948)
Greetings from
Ludger
Probably to remind him old good times.
