Pabst-Plan
" Pabst Plan" is a plan for the reorganization of the city of Warsaw during the German occupation in a " German town " which was named after the city planner Frederick Pabst.
After this destruction and destruction plan Warsaw was to be turned into a German provincial town. The plan as a part of the General Plan for the East required that 95 % of the city buildings destroyed and only the Krakow suburb and Belweder were left intact, with Belweder as the seat of the German administration. The population of the city should be put in concentration camps or on site - are murdered - in 1943 resulting KL Warsaw.
After the end of the Polish campaign and the military administration on October 25, 1939 and the establishment of a German civilian occupation administration of city treasurer of Würzburg, Oskar Rudolf Dengel, was appointed on November 4, 1939, Mayor of Warsaw. For the planned transformation from Warsaw to Dengel took in the second half of December 1939 Hubert old and about 20 other employees of the city of Würzburg to Warsaw and instructed them with a design for the " dismantling of Poland City " and the conversion into a " new German city of Warsaw ." In addition, this staff had Dengels perceive the supervision of the municipal departments of Warsaw.
In his memoirs formulated Large: "The aim was to develop a planning idea on how and where the city structure can be imprinted with extensive facilities of the party and state of the stamp of a German city. "
Dengel appointed United on 15 January 1940 Head of Department VII of Building, Planning and Building Control and Erwin Suppinger, the head of the Würzburg Civil Engineering Office, Head of the Department VIII for civil engineering, road clearing, road maintenance, drainage, bridges, street cleaning, cars parking and fuel supply.
The combined efforts of the Würzburg planning staff resulted in a project documentary entitled: " Warsaw, the new German city " whose cover was the following inscription: "This work was carried out by city planners from Würzburg, whose Würzburg cities plan on 20 June 1939, the recognition of the leader has been found. I thank my colleagues for the work and put the same Minister in the hands of the Governor General of the occupied Polish territories Pg Dr. Frank. Warsaw, February 6, 1940. The Mayor Dr. Dengel ".
The exhibited in Warsaw's city museum plan work consists of 15 panels in a bound 59 × 75 cm large wallet, with drawings on the network of railways and roads, the devastation of war, the planned reduction of the existing development and the presentation of the new phases of construction for future German population as well as model photos and a panoramic drawing and a panoramic photo.
The goal was to reduce the city of 1.3 million to about 40,000 inhabitants and the creation of a German -dominated core city by the so-called abolition of Poland city and the deportation of the Jewish population. The German residential quarters were placed in a 1,500 × 2,000 -meter oval, in the center of which was the Saxon Garden. For the new city was assumed that ten cells having a size of approximately 3,500 inhabitants comprised by the developed by Gottfried Feder cell structure of an urban organism, so that it must be designed by a population figure of 30,000 to 40,000. Influential was the design of a ring road structure around the shrunken city space and a coordinate system of the major east-west and north-south road. A Gauforum with tower, as in almost all restructuring plans was also provided.
Mayor Dengel promised with the he initiated planning "for the new German city of Warsaw ," for which he had also assured the support of the Reich Ministry of the Interior, advantages in competence dispute with the district governor Ludwig Fischer, who replace the current regulatory administration by a direct German administration and in this context also wanted to incorporate the architectural administration of its Warsaw district administration. Finally Dengel should recommend such a radical design planning for areas and population moderate reduction of the former Polish capital and the Governor-General Hans Frank, was dedicated to the titling the planning book. As Dengel ultimately but could not prevail, he said in February 1940 his resignation as mayor. On March 21, 1940 he was transferred to Liege. The gel of recruited from the Würzburg city council staff now also announced and left most of Warsaw.