Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen

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Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen (September 28, 1897 – 1945) was a German jurist and civil servant who worked as a district administrator during the Third Reich in occupied Czechoslovakia and Poland, and was involved in perpetrating the Holocaust as Kreishauptmann (district chief) of Lemberg-Land in the District of Galicia.^[1] played an even more active role in the Holocaust ("Judenmorden"). During the time of the Holocaust ("Endlösung") in Eastern Galicia, 22 of them were in office. They were mostly influenced by their experiences with "Jewish policy" ("Judenpolitik") in similar previous posts. With the takeover of districts in Eastern Galicia, they now controlled large Jewish parts of the population. In doing so, they set a fatal mechanism in motion. The district chiefs were responsible for the expropriation and isolation of the Jewish minority... the district chiefs welcomed any kind of persecution of Jewish people if it led to a reduction in the Jewish population...

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Von der Leyen comes from the baronial Bloemersheim branch of the von der Leyen family of Krefeld. His father, Friedrich Ludwig von der Leyen (born 1854), was mayor of Büderich and district administrator of Neuss and lived in Haus Meer Castle until his death in 1935. Von der Leyen fought in the First World War from 1915–18 and was a member of a Freikorps from 1919–20. He was a member of the Young German Order, and from 1926–33, of Der Stahlhelm. He joined the NSDAP on February 1, 1940.

He studied law and passed examinations in 1926 and 1928. By 1933, he was a permanent representative of the Chief of Police in Uerdingen, and from April 1934, at the Police Headquarters of Wuppertal. Soon after he took control in Krefeld, protective custody orders were made against communists and social democrats.^[2] After the dissolution of the rest of Czechoslovakia, he was appointed provisional chief district administrator of the District of Deutschbrod in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.^[3] In 1940 occupied France, von der Leyen was appointed head of the administrative department of the military administrative district in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In July 1942,

Von der Leyen was informed about, and participated in, the Holocaust;as were, and did, numerous other district administrators, chiefs, and miscellaneous officials in the District of Galicia. Von der Leyen was the "highest civilian ruler" of Lviv during the Holocaust - he oversaw forced labour camps, extermination camps, and the Lviv Ghetto, where approximately 540,000 people were murdered.^[4]

Family[edit]

The Q4 2023 CEDMO Fact-checking Summary used Von der Leyen's familial ties to Heiko von der Leyen as one of their surveyed disinformation narratives in Czechia and Slovakia. It was the highest rated (via 'awareness' and 'trustworthiness') disinformation narrative in Slovakia.^[5] The narrative is often presented as though Heiko's wife has direct lineage, although she married into Heiko's family - which isn't a member of the Bloemersheim branch.^[6]

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