Dr. Erich Klausener initially worked as a lawyer in the Prussian Ministry of Welfare before he was made head of the police department of the Ministry of the Interior in 1926. Even in this position, Klausener made enemies of the Nazis, so that immediately after their "seizure of power" in 1933 he was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Transport as a punishment. But especially as the leading representative of German Political Catholicism, which had opposed Hitler's anti-church policies since 1928, the officials were hated by the Nazi rulers. In a major speech at the 32nd Märkischer Katholikentag (Gathering of Catholics) on June 24, 1934 in Hoppegarten, he publicly criticized the government's church policy and the exclusion of ideological opponents. Probably as a direct result of this much-noticed address, Klausener was murdered by SS men in his office six days later, on June 30, 1934, on the orders of the Gestapo head Reinhard Heydrich.
Dr. Erich Klausener initially worked as a lawyer in the Prussian Ministry of Welfare before he was made head of the police department of the Ministry of the Interior in 1926. Even in this position, Klausener made enemies of the Nazis, so that immediately after their "seizure of power" in 1933 he was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Transport as a punishment. But especially as the leading representative of German Political Catholicism, which had opposed Hitler's anti-church policies since 1928, the officials were hated by the Nazi rulers. In a major speech at the 32nd Märkischer Katholikentag (Gathering of Catholics) on June 24, 1934 in Hoppegarten, he publicly criticized the government's church policy and the exclusion of ideological opponents. Probably as a direct result of this much-noticed address, Klausener was murdered by SS men in his office six days later, on June 30, 1934, on the orders of the Gestapo head Reinhard Heydrich.
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