Franz Neuhausen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Neuhausen

Nazi official

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1887

Place of Birth: Merzig, Saarland, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Apr-1966

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Franz Neuhausen (13 December 1887 – 14 April 1966) was a wealthy industrialist who became the special plenipotentiary for economic affairs in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia during most of the German military occupation of that region of the partitioned Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II.
He worked as a representative of Germany and the Nazi Party in Belgrade throughout the 1930s, during which he amassed a huge fortune.
As a close friend and personal favourite of Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring, he became Göring's direct representative for the Four Year Plan in the occupied territory, and was its virtual economic dictator from April 1941 until August 1944.
On 18 October 1943 he succeeded Harald Turner as the Chief of the Military Administration in Serbia, and he continued to fulfill both roles until late August 1944. Neuhausen was considered "sleazy and unscrupulous" and "notoriously corrupt".
After complaints by senior Nazi officials in south-east Europe he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, but survived to be captured by United States authorities.
He was handed over by the US to the Yugoslav authorities after the war, and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
He was released in 1953 and died in Munich, West Germany in 1966.