Is it true that the grandfathers of German health and finance ministers were high -ranking Nazi officials?

On January 20, on the air of the Russian “Channel One”, the program “Man and the Law” sounded that the German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach and the Minister of Finance Christian Lindner, the grandchildren of famous Nazis. We decided to check if this is true.

Program release "Man and the law"Was devoted to the rehabilitation of Nazism, which is now allegedly taking place in Germany. And one of the arguments cited on the air was: “By the way, the German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach is the grandson of Obergruppenfuhrer SS Hartman Lautherbacher, the Minister of Finance of Germany Christian Lindner is the grandson of Brigadenfuhrer SS Gerhard Lindner.” This statement diverges through social networks since the spring of 2022. And the primary source was personally Evgeny Prigozhin, the creator "Troll factories"And the founder of the PMC" Wagner ". On March 5, the press service of the Prigozhin of the Concord group Published His statement about the Nazis ancestors of two ministers, as well as the Federal Chancellor Olaf Sholts (the last case was already “verified” in detail Disassembled). Later, the German site T-Online The Prigozhin’s press service sent a request, in which he asked the source of this information in the response to reporters that this was the result of the work of journalists-investigators of the Patriot Media Group media group (it is also controlled by the founder of the Wagner PMC) based on archival documents.

Hartman Lautherbacher (1909–1988), indeed, was one of the prominent Nazi officials. He is still a teenager Participated In the activities of youth Nazi movements, and in 1927 joined the NSDAP (National Socialist Party). In 1934, Lautherbacher occupied the second most important post in the Hitler Youth (became the chief of staff of the organization), in Hanover he led the relocation of local Jews to the ghetto. After the war, he managed to escape, many years later Lauterbacher returned to Germany.

Only to the current Minister of Health does he have nothing to do. The creators of the plot in the program "Man and the Law" did not embarrass that Lauterbach and Lautherbacher are different surnames. Nevertheless, the German site Correctiv Checked Possible family ties of Lauterbach and Lautherbacher. Children Obergruppenführer SS were called Yorg, Klaus and Ilze - this information was found in the archives by journalists Braunschweiger ZeitungWhen investigated the biography of Lautherbacher. And parents of the Minister of Health Lautherbach The name is Wilhelm and Gertrude. Thus, neither names nor surnames coincide, and no connection between the Minister and the Nazi official can be traced. Correctiv also turned to the Ministry of Health and received the answer: “No, Hartmann Lautherbacher is not the grandfather of the Federal Minister Lauterbach.”

In the second case, the surnames at least coincide. However, Gerhard Lindner (1896–1982) in the program "Man and Law" was presented incorrectly: he He served Not in the SS, but in the Wehrmacht and wore the title of Major General, and not Brigadenfuhrer. In January 1945 Lindner commanded The 17th tank-grenadier division of the SS "Giets von Berlichingen", but at the same time was in the rank of colonel of the army. Much less is known about him, unlike Lauterbacher: in 1945, the allies arrested Lindner, judged, and in 1947 they released. In 1982, he died in the city of Aurich in Lower Saxony.

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner wrote a lot about his family: in 2017 he released Autobiographyin which he described in sufficient detail his childhood. His father Wolfgang Lindner taught mathematics and computer science all his life - first at school, then at the university. The profile of the father of the minister, indicating the education and places of work, can be found on Linkedin.

Parents of Dr. Lindner (that is, grandfather and grandmother Christian Lindner on the paternal line) owned The bakery in Wuppertal (Earth North Rhine - Westphalia). The book, the content of which is retold in the review of Spiegel magazine, is Excerptdedicated to his grandfather and his bakery: the future minister complained that because of his grandfather's pastries, at some point, he was very fat, which pretty spoiled his teenage years. Even if it is assumed that the former General of the Wehrmacht has settled down and opened the bakery, neither the date nor the place coincides. Gerhard Lindner died in 1982 in Lower Saxony, and Christian Lindner was born in 1979 in the land of the North Rhine - Westphalia.

Finally, the Correctiv site in this case Turned To the ministry with a request. The representative of the department informed the German Facturers that the information that Gerhard Lindner was Cera Christian Lindner is not true.

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What do our verdicts mean?

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