page_title: Karl Kaufmann
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Karl Kaufmann / Career
caption_attribution_description: RAFA-3309 U71_0026 Vil du bla i albumet, kan du gjøre det i Digitalarkivet: arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&amp;mo... If you want to flick through the album, you can do it here: arkivverket.no/URN:db_read/db/13188/2/?size=medium&amp;mo... English: Image from "Photo Album from Terboven's journey to Nothern Norway and Finland 10–27 July 1942" (Mit dem Reichskommissar nach Nordnorwegen und Finnland 10. bis 27. Juli 1942), 375 images uploaded to www. flickr.com by Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) 2012. See scanned album here Norsk bokmål: Bilde fra «Fotoalbum fra Terbovens reise til Nord-Norge og Finland sommeren 1942» (Mit dem Reichskommissar nach Nordnorwegen und Finnland 10. bis 27. Juli 1942), i alt 375 bilder lastet opp på www.flickr.com av Riksarkivet i 2012. Arkivreferanse: RAFA-3309 U71 Nylig dukket dette fotoalbumet fra Josef Terbovens reise i Nord-Norge sommeren 1942 opp på det private markedet. Riksarkivet har sammen med Falstadsenteret anskaffet seg det og gjør det nå tilgjengelig for alle. Albumet inneholder 375 fotografier med trykte bildetekster og en lengre innledning stilet til “Herr Reichskommissar”. Trolig ble albumet gitt som gave til Terboven personlig. De fleste fotografiene har karakter av uformelle øyeblikksbilder tatt under reisen fra Trondheim gjennom Nordland, Troms, Finnmark og til Finland. Det er bilder fra selskap og drikkelag, fra møter med norsk natur og lokalbefolkning, fra inspeksjon av tyske styrker og fra samtaler med lokale befal langs reiseruten. Du kan bla i enkeltbildene på Flickr eller i albumsidene på Digitalarkivet: [1]
context_page_description: Karl Kaufmann was a Nazi Gauleiter in Hamburg—head of the Nazi Party, and government of Hamburg from 1933 until 1945.
context_section_description: A founding member of the NSDAP in 1921; after the re-establishment of the party, he rejoined in 1925 and quickly became one of Adolf Hitler's favourites. He was appointed Gauleiter of the Gaus North Rhineland and Ruhr between the years 1925 and 1928, then Gauleiter of Hamburg on 15 April 1929, a post he was to hold until 1945. He was also elected a member of the German Reichstag in November 1932. After Hitler gained power, Kaufmann was appointed Reichsstatthalter (Regional Governor) of Hamburg on 16 May 1933 with absolute power over some 1.8 million people. One of his first acts was to turn over control of the city's Fuhlsbüttel Prison to the SA and SS, where it quickly became the nucleus of the notorious Kola-Fu concentration camp.
  In September 1941, after Allied bombing of Hamburg had rendered many people homeless, Kaufmann petitioned Hitler to allow him to deport local Jews so that he could confiscate their property to rehouse bombed-out citizens. Hitler quickly responded, allowing Kaufmann the dubious distinction of being the first Nazi leader to deport German Jews, in this instance to the Łódź Ghetto in Poland.
  A member of the SS since 1933, he was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer on 30 January 1942. On 16 November 1942, he was appointed Reich Defense Commissioner for his Gau. Adolf Hitler declared Hamburg as fortress, similar to the Festung Warschau, the cities of Poznań, or Kolberg. In April 1945, Kaufmann and Commander Generalmajor Alwin Wolz wanted, independently of each other, to capitulate without further struggle. After negotiations and the publication of a pamphlet prepared by Kaufmann—without Kaufmann's consent—Hamburg was declared an "open city" by Admiral Karl Dönitz, then president of Germany.
caption: Gauleiter, Reichsstatthalter, and SS-Obergruppenführer Kaufmann visiting Norway July 1942 in his capacity as Reichskommissar für die deutsche Seefahrt (RKS). Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar for Norway during the Nazi occupation 1940–1945, to his left.
  Photo: National Archives of Norway
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