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Karl Fiehler
Karl Fiehler served as mayor of Munich. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Munich, Germany through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Karl Fiehler: 1895-08-31–1969-12-08. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
- As mayor of Munich, Karl Fiehler helped shape the city’s persecution of Jews; in a circular dated 1933-03-24, he ordered that municipal contracts not be awarded to firms owned or managed by Jews or foreigners. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
- In 1949-01, the Munich denazification chamber classified him in Category II and imposed 2 years in a labour camp, credited against internment, and a 12-year occupational ban; this was not a criminal conviction for Holocaust crimes. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile separates the documented office and individual conduct from the wider crimes of the institution or subordinate formation. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- As mayor of Munich, Karl Fiehler helped shape the city’s persecution of Jews; in a circular dated 1933-03-24, he ordered that municipal contracts not be awarded to firms owned or managed by Jews or foreigners. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
- In 1949-01, the Munich denazification chamber classified him in Category II and imposed 2 years in a labour camp, credited against internment, and a 12-year occupational ban; this was not a criminal conviction for Holocaust crimes. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
In 1949-01, the Munich denazification chamber classified him in Category II and imposed 2 years in a labour camp, credited against internment, and a 12-year occupational ban; this was not a criminal conviction for Holocaust crimes. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
Only claims tied to the cited evidence are included. No individual victim total or additional order is attributed without separate proof. No portrait was selected because rights were not verified. (Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage; Source: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, cited passage; Source: Bayerischer Rundfunk / Institut für Zeitgeschichte, cited passage)
Sources
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