predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion party birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name
walter schieck martin mutschmann 02 september 1944 gut lindigt , german empire calea victoriei , kingdom of romania lutheran national socialist german workers ' party -lrb- nsdap -rrb- 14 july 1886 minister-president of the free state of saxony 1933 bundesarchiv bild 183-l07770 , manfred v. killinger.jpg manfred freiherr von killinger
 1935 manfred freiherr von killinger
manfred freiherr von killinger

manfred freiherr von killinger -lrb- july 14 , 1886 -- september 2 , 1944 -rrb- was a german naval officer , `` freikorps '' leader , military writer and nazi politician .
a veteran of world war i and member of the `` marinebrigade ehrhardt '' during the german revolution , he took part in the military intervention against the bavarian soviet republic .
after the `` freikorps '' was disbanded , the antisemitic killinger was active in the `` germanenorden '' and `` organisation consul '' , masterminding the murder of matthias erzberger .
he was subsequently a national socialist german workers party representative in the reichstag and a leader of the `` sturmabteilung '' , before serving as saxony 's minister-president and playing a part in implementing nazi policies at a local level .
purged during the night of the long knives , he was able to recover his status , and served as nazi germany 's consul in san francisco between 1936 and 1939 .
as ambassador to the slovak republic in 1940 , he played a part in enforcing antisemitic legislation in that country .
in early 1941 , killinger was appointed to a similar position in romania , where he first became noted for supporting ion antonescu during the legionary rebellion .
together with his aide gustav richter , he attempted to gain romania 's participation in the german-led final solution , thus pressuring romanian authorities to divert focus from their own mass murder of jews .
killinger oversaw german presence in romania until 1944 , and was the target of a notorious 1943 pamphlet by writer tudor arghezi .
he committed suicide in bucharest , days after the king michael coup of august 23 , 1944 toppled the antonescu regime .
