Son of a colono German, Leibbrandt nacque to Hoffnungsthal,
near Odessa, the 5 september 1899, attended the gymnasium to Dorpat
and supported the examinations of maturity to Odessa.
In 1918, with the been left over one of the German troops in
Ucraina, he began to work like interpreter. Later on he joined also
to one formation of " self-defense ".
After the triumph of the revolutionary forces, he moved
himself to Berlin. He studied theology at first, then philosophy,
history and finally political economy, matter in which he graduated
himself in 1927.
As writer introduced itself with banns on the emigration
sveva in Russia (1928), argument that the history of its ancestors
regarded, on the German colonies in Bessarabia and the " true face of
the bolscevismo ".
For study reasons, Leibbrandt oed for two semestri to Paris
and an other semestre to London. It made three travels of study in
Ussr and in 1930 scholarship of the foundation worked in the USA
thanks to one Rockefeller. In USA it entered in contact with an
organization of the NSDAP, contact that ristabill subsequently to
Geneva, where it remained until 1933.
To the Leibbrandt age it worked already for the Office of
foreign politics (APA) of the NSDAP, whose head was Alfred
Rosenberg . The 10 July 1933 Leibbrandt enrolled to the party
(ticket n. 1976826) and saw ricompensati its servigi 15 October of the
same year, when it was admitted like collaborator to full time in the
APA, where gives the 30 July 1935 covered, in reason of its
competences - it had travelled to the foreign country, it spoke
Russian, ucraino, French and English -, the function of responsible of
a central office.
When the territories occupied from the nazis began to having
a more and more immense extension and able the administrative and
organizational staff to scarseggiare, Hitler designated to Alfred
Rosenberg, a man of its continuation from the remoter times, minister
of the Territories orientals (not still occupied). 13 November 1941
came announced the creation of the new ministry of the Reich, than
insediò to Berlin, at first in the building of the former embassy
jugoslava, then in that one of the former Soviet embassy.
Rosenberg assigned to Leibbrandt the Political division, from
which the subdivisions depended Political general, Ucraina, Ostland,
the Caucasus and Russia, let alone Culture and Press. Corresponsabile
Leibbrandt divenne cosl of the criminal regimen of occupation in the
western territories of Ussr, that it practiced one political of
extermination, but entered also in conflict on the adequacy in the
short period and on the ability to last in along of fascist colonial
politics.
To the par of other collaborators of the ministry, it
inclined for one political more flexible, paventando that the
Barbarian repressive regimen could strengthen the resistance and carry
to permanent disorders.
The documents do not help to make light us on the reason for
which Leibbrandt it has accompanied the secretary of State Meyer to
the conference of the Wannsee . Perhaps its presence
is explained with a talk between Meyer
and
Heydrich , of 4 October 1941, to which it had participated
also. In that occasion the two high civil employees of the ministry
of the occupied Territories had not married the rigorous line of
Heydrich, than he did not hold account of issues of economic
character, a lot that the head of the RSHA quite
thought to equip the assigned ministry of a special one to the Jewish
issue, that he would have had to depend on the organism from directed
he.
The constant interest demonstrated from the leadership of the
SS because it came to them entrusted the how much before direction of
entire politics of extermination, of occupation and of germanizzazione
in the future Colonies in the East of the continent it was, from last,
the cause of the removal of Leibbrandt from its office.
The change of the guard happened in August 1943. The
successor of Leibbrandt was one of the collaborating maximums of
Himmler, the Obergruppenführer of the SS Gottlob Berger, that he
accumulated the new charge with that one of head of the central Office
of the SS.
Leibbrandt, that it had lend service in the Wehrmacht, was
enlisted in Navy. It survived to the war and it succeeded to avoid
also one sentence.
A procedure started against of he from a court of the western
Germany was archiviato in 1950.