10 Facts About Eggert Reeder

SS-Gruppenfuhrer Eggert Reeder was a German jurist, civil servant, and district president of several regions.

Eggert Reeder joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933.

On 9 July 1936 Eggert Reeder was appointed governor of Cologne.

Eggert Reeder became key in the planning of the invasion of Belgium during the Phoney War.

Eggert Reeder was appointed head of the administrative staff of the Military Governor of Belgium and northern France under von Falkenhausen, who was in charge of all economic and political issues, and liaised with the occupation government in charge.

That was in part aided by the fact that from July to September 1944, Eggert Reeder was appointed Deputy of the new Imperial Commissioner for occupied Belgium and northern France, the former Cologne and Aachen Gauleiter Josef Grohe.

Eggert Reeder was directly responsible for the destruction of "Jewish influence" in the Belgian economy.

Eggert Reeder was taken prisoner on 18 April 1945 and held in Belgium until the summer of 1947.

Eggert Reeder was placed on trial in Belgium on 9 March 1951 and defended by the lawyer Ernst Achenbach.

On return to West Germany, they were pardoned by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on 30 July 1951, and Eggert Reeder subsequently retired at his own request.