24 Facts About Georg Leibbrandt

Georg Leibbrandt was a German Nazi Party official and civil servant.

Georg Leibbrandt occupied leading foreign policy positions in the Nazi Party Foreign Policy Office and the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories as an expert on issues relating to Russia.

Georg Leibbrandt was born to ethnic German parents in Hoffnungstal, near Odesa, in the Russian Empire.

Georg Leibbrandt attended secondary schools in Dorpat, Vero and Odesa.

Georg Leibbrandt excelled at foreign languages, learning Greek, Latin, Russian, Ukrainian and, later, French and English.

Georg Leibbrandt earned a living as a language tutor and an interpreter for foreign visitors, and spent time in Paris and London attending lectures on international law and international relations.

Georg Leibbrandt traveled extensively, including visits to Canada, the US, Switzerland and three trips to the Soviet Union in 1926,1928 and 1929.

Georg Leibbrandt's work brought him to the attention of Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Party's chief ideologist who headed the Party's Foreign Policy Office.

Georg Leibbrandt requested that Liebbrandt return to Germany and offered him a position with his organization on condition that he become a Party member.

Georg Leibbrandt's membership was approved on 20 September 1933, retroactive to 1 July, and he was named head of the Eastern Division of the APA with the Party rank of Reichsamtsleiter.

Georg Leibbrandt wrote numerous speeches for Rosenberg containing strong antisemitic themes, which he incorporated into his own presentations and writings.

In 1938, Georg Leibbrandt received an appointment as a Beisitzer at the People's Court and, in 1940, he became a lecturer at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Georg Leibbrandt established the Sammlung Georg Leibbrandt, which developed an index of literature pertaining to Russian ethnic Germans as well as a library.

Georg Leibbrandt was personally involved in this plunder, examining library and archival materials in the collections taken from Ukraine by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce.

Together with Rosenberg's deputy Alfred Meyer, Georg Leibbrandt represented the RMfdbO at the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942 that planned the implementation of The Final Solution.

Georg Leibbrandt had ongoing conflicts with the other Reichskommissar that reported to the RMfdbO, Erich Koch of the Ukraine.

Georg Leibbrandt left the ministry and joined the Kriegsmarine where he remained until the fall of the Nazi regime in May 1945.

Georg Leibbrandt remained in Allied custody until finally released in May 1949.

In 1955, Georg Leibbrandt served as an adviser to German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on the repatriation of German prisoners of war from the Soviet Union.

Georg Leibbrandt was employed as a lobbyist for the city of Wilhelmshaven and the Friesland district, and he later represented the steel manufacturer Salzgitter AG.

Georg Leibbrandt resumed his studies on the subject of Russian German communities, and remained an active member of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, an association of Germans who had been expelled from Russia, until his death in Bonn on 16 June 1982.

In November 1979, the US Justice Department and State Department barred Georg Leibbrandt from entering the United States for his participation in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews from 1941 to 1943.

Georg Leibbrandt's United States travel visa was revoked and his name was placed on the watch lists of the US Immigration Service and State Department.

Georg Leibbrandt has a son of the same name, living in Berlin.