Karl Saur

Karl Saur
Born	Karl-Otto Saur 16 February 1902 Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	28 July 1966 (aged 64) Pullach, Bavaria, West Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation(s)	Engineer, Politician
Known for	High-ranking official in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production
Political party	Nazi Party
Awards	Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross

Karl-Otto Saur (16 February 1902 – 28 July 1966) was a high ranking official in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany and was named as Reichsminister of Munitions in Adolf Hitler’s will.

Life

Saur was an engineer by profession. After graduation, he joined Thyssen AG, where he became the director of the August Thyssen-Hütte. He was a member of the Nazi Party from 1931. He joined the National Socialist Guild of German Engineers and the Organisation Todt where he rose to be the right-hand man to Fritz Todt. When Todt became the first Minister of Armaments and Munitions in March 1940, Saur joined him in the new ministry.

Following Todt's death in a 1942 plane crash, Saur became the Head of the Technical Department and reported directly to the new armaments minister Albert Speer.^[1] From 1 March 1944, he was Chief of Staff of the newly established Jägerstab (Fighter Staff), despite having no knowledge or experience with aircraft design or production.^[2] This was a joint task force of the Armaments Ministry and the Reich Ministry of Aviation, and Saur managed its day-to-day operations. It was tasked with increasing fighter aircraft production, reconstructing damaged industrial facilities, and moving air armament works to safer, underground facilities.^[3] On 1 August 1944, Saur was named Deputy Chief and Chief of Staff of the new Rüstungsstab (Armament Staff) into which the Jägerstab was merged and which oversaw production for all armaments industries.^[4] In all these positions, Saur was seen as particularly ruthless in the enforcement of military targets, and was involved in all aspects of increasing production, including orders that regulated the flow of slave labour.

In his political testament of 29 April 1945, Adolf Hitler named Saur as the new Reichsminister of Munitions in place of Speer.^[5] However, the new Reich President, Karl Dönitz, ignored this directive and kept Speer on as Reichsminister of Industry and Production in the Flensburg government. From May 1945 Saur was in American custody. In 1948 he became a witness for the prosecution at the Krupp trial in Nuremberg - the Americans offered him immunity from prosecution for war crimes if he turned in state evidence, as they wanted a trial to demonstrate the collective guilt of German industry. For this he was viewed as a traitor by industry and was socially isolated. During denazification he was classified as a "fellow traveler" and was released shortly afterward.

Saur founded an engineering consultancy in 1949, and also started a small publishing house. The resulting company Saur Verlag only became economically successful from the beginning of the 1960s under his son Klaus Gerhard Saur.

References

^ Speer 1970, p. 280.
^ Uziel 2011, p. 77.
^ Faber 1977, p. 249.
^ "Trials of the War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume IX: The Krupp Case, pp, 778-779" (PDF). United States Printing Office. 1950. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
^ Speer 1970, p. 613.

Sources

Faber, Harold (1977). Luftwaffe: A History. New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-0725-6.
Speer, Albert (1970). Inside the Third Reich. New York: Avon Books. ISBN 978-0380000715.
Uziel, Daniel (2011). Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry in World War II. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-6521-7.

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