Business distribution plans of the SD main office
This article gives an overview of the business distribution plans of the SD main office as the central command and control point of the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD).
Business distribution plans
Organizational structure 1936/37
- Head of the SD main office of the Reichsführer SS or SD main office : SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
- Office I : Personnel and Administration
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Office II : SD-Inland
- Head: SS-Standartenführer Hermann Behrends (from 1937 SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Six )
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Central Department II / 1 : enemy research
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Ehrlinger (from the end of 1936 SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Six)
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Main department II / 11 : ideological opponents
- SS-Untersturmführer Dieter Wisliceny
- Department II / 111 : Freemasons
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Department II / 112 : Jews
- SS-Untersturmführer Leopold von Mildenstein (until the end of 1936), from 1937: SS-Untersturmführer Herbert Hagen
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Department II / 113 : Political Churches
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Albert Hartl
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Main Department II / 12 : Political Opponents
- SS-Untersturmführer Helmut Bone
- Department II / 121 : Marxism
- Department II / 123 : Opposition
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Main department II / 2 : German living areas
- SS-Sturmbannführer Reinhard Höhn (from 1937 SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Ohlendorf )
- Department II / 21 : Culture
- Department II / 22 : Law and Administration
- Department II / 23 : Economy
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Office III : SD-Abroad / Defense
- Head: SS-Standartenführer Heinz Jost (from 1942 SS-Brigadführer Walter Schellenberg ).
Business distribution plan according to the "Staff order for the SD main office No. 3/37"
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Head of the SD main office of the Reichsführer SS or SD main office : SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
- Staff leadership : SS-Brigadführer Siegfried Taubert
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Adjutantur of the head of the SD main office :
- Adjutant : SS-Obersturmführer Hans-Hendrik Neumann
- Registry manager: SS-Untersturmführer Zimmermann
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Office I : Personnel and Administration
- Head: SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Albert
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Central Department I 1 : SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Albert, Hauptscharführer Anthor
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Main department I 11 : SS-Standartenführer Herbert Mehlhorn
- Assistants assigned to the main department: Hauptscharführer Horn, Untersturmführer Müller, Oberscharführer Wisech, Oberscharführer Will, Oberscharführer Strobel, Oberscharführer Wiedemann, Scharführer Gaulke, Scharführer Schulze, Unterscharführer Urbanneck, Scharführer Wistenberg
- Division I 111 : SS-Untersturmführer Roth
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Division I 112 : SS-Obersturmführer Herbert Vosshagen
- Section I 1121 : SS-Oberscharführer R Schmidt
- Referat I 1122 : SS-Untersturmführer Sulzer, Hauptsturmführer Rall
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Main department I 13 : SS-Obersturmführer Herbert Vosshagen
- Assistants at I 13: SS-Hauptscharführer Heinrich, Möhlmeyer, Neuenfeld, May; SS Oberscharführer Gründler, Stöterau, Schleisser, Meyer; Squad leader Noll, Werth, Rutzen; SS-Scharführer Böhrk, Herbert Müller; SS-Unterscharfuhrer Walter Schmidt, Bressem, Schween, Schmüth, Litschke, Kallermann, Eckhoff, Sander, Hagel, Krüger, Wellnitz, Horchers, Goberneck; Rottenführer Ritter, Helmut Schmidt, Dunke, Zirnite, Wagner, Richter; Sturmmann Vogt; SS man Krusche; Applicants Trädrup, Zager, Jäger, Simon, Moos, Zug; Party comrade Schmädeicke
- Division I 131 : SS-Hauptscharführer Oskar Podlich
- Division I 132 : SS-Untersturmführer Hoffmann
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Division I 133 : SS-Untersturmführer Skurk
- Referat I 1341 : SS-Untersturmführer Heino Deharde
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Main department I 14 : SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Sohst
- Assistants at I / 14: SS-Hauptsturmführer Neubert, Rust, Dohrmann; SS-Scharführer Reiweber, Beckmann; SS-Unterscharfuhrer Wirtig, Gassmann, Krepelhuber, Volke; SS applicants Stein, rschle, Pelz, Rupprecht, Neuge;
- Department I 141 : SS-Untersturmführer Rüger, SS-Obersturmführer Mehlsäubl
- Division I 142 : SS-Untersturmführer Plath, SS-Oberscharführer Huebner; SS-Scharführer Lüdtke
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Main department I 15 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Friedrich Vollheim
- Assistants at I / 15 : SS-Untersturmführer Höft, Hauptscharführer Lehmann, Siemens, Schneider; SS-Oberscharführer Beisenherz, Bergol, Paus, Müller, Steinwedel, Scholz, Schulz, Thies, Scharführer, Hackbarth, Riemer, Wetzel, Wiesner; SS-Unterscharführer Betz, Breiter, Fiebig, Hildebrandt, Kotzruek, Köppe, Lechner, Ried, Sizak, Schäfer, Schönroceck, Tuchel; SS Rottenführer Braun, Kräling, Petersen, Polac, Qubos, Valentin; Sturmmann Fischer, Mrongovius, Schott; SS man Tscharnoe, Thun; SS candidate Wolf, SS candidate Bor, Daller, Gräver, Heissig, radünz, Schotzki, Scheibner, Schuster, Zimmamann
- Department 1511 : SS-Obersturmführer Buch
- Department I 1521 : SS-Untersturmführer Hermann Brendel
- Division I 1522 : SS-Scharführer Bauer
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Main department I 11 : SS-Standartenführer Herbert Mehlhorn
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Central Department I 2 :
- Assistants at I / 2 : SS-Oberscharführer Hosch, Lukat, Fitzen, Manck, Ahlers, break; Squad Leader Halboth, Ufken; SS-Unterscharführer Reisch, Max Müller, Carl, Rottler-Kühl; Rottenführer Mählig, HJ Krüger, Weiden; SS-Sturmmann Dietrich; SS applicant Jung
- Main department I 21 : SS-Obersturmführer Griebl
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Main department I 22 : SS-Obersturmführer Holder, Hauptscharführer Hänsch
- Department I 212 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Bruns, SS-Obersturmführer Walter Heggblum , Rabe, SS-Untersturmführer Berg, Haydenreuther
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Central Department I 3 : Press and Literature
- Head: Sturmbannführer Franz Six
- Speakers at I 3: Hauptscharführer Kämpf, Pahl; Oberscharführer Burmester, Dittel, Möbus, Pfeiffer, Wohlfahrt; Squad leader Altemeier, Bauckloh, Beyer, Naeter; Unterscharführer Diez, Doberschütz, Unterscharführer Hass, Königslöw, Lange; Applicants Backhaus, Fischer, Schen
- Aid at I 3: Hauptscharführer Oehme; Oberscharführer Einfeld, Eisenkolb; Squad leader Reein, Hansen, Schumacher, Vogel, Rust, Mose, Scholze, Mühler, Ireck, Weinauge, Franz, Leube, Heinrich Stassen; Sturmmann Bahlsen, Panzer; SS applicant Augsburg
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Main department I 31 : SS-Untersturmführer Wilhelm Spengler
- Division I 311 : SS-Scharführer Hagen
- Division I 312 : SS-Oberscharführer Walter von Kielpinski
- Department I 315 : Applicant Stübel
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Main department I 32 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Ehrlinger
- Division I 322 : SS-Hauptscharführer Richter
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Central Department I 4 :
- Head: SS-Standartenführer Arthur Bork
- Auxiliary staff at I 4 : SS-Untersturmführer Wilhelm Asmus, Oberscharführer Hars, Scharführer Eimers, Oberscharführer March, Oberscharführer Schnarp
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Main department I 41 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Carl Brocke
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Division I 411 : SS-Oberscharführer Radtke
- Section I 4411 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt Schmidt
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Division I 411 : SS-Oberscharführer Radtke
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Main department I 42 : SS-Obersturmführer Mettich
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Department I 421 : SS-Untersturmführer Julius Schmidt
- Section I 4231 : SS-Untersturmführer Scheidler
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Department I 421 : SS-Untersturmführer Julius Schmidt
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Main department I 43 : SS-Oberscharführer Spannaus
- Section I 4321 : SS-Untersturmführer Herrmann
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Division I 441 : SS-Hauptscharführer Griesmann
- Section I 4412 : SS-Obersturmführer Wilhelm Dilger
- Division I 442 : SS-Hauptscharführer Ripke
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Office II : SD-Inland
- Head: Hermann Behrends
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Central department II 1 : Weltanschauung evaluation
- Head: Standartenführer Hermann Behrends
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Main Department II 11 : Obersturmführer Hartmann
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Department II 111 : Freemasons
- Head: Obersturmführer Theodor Christensen
- Speakers: Untersturmführer Hans Harms, Hauptscharführer Ehlers and Hermann Wisliceny
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Department II 112 :
- Speakers: Hauptsturmführer Kuno Schröder , Adolf Eichmann
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Department II 113 : Department of Church Politics
- Head: Obersturmführer Albert Hartl
- Speakers: Hauptscharführer Gahrmann, Walter Kolrep , Untersturmführer Otto, Oberscharführer de Boer, Scharführer Krüger, Scharführer Paul Zapp
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Department II 111 : Freemasons
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Main department II 12 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Werner Göttsch
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Department II 121 : SS-Obersturmführer Wolf
- Speakers: Untersturmführer Dörner, Hauptscharführer Schack
- Department II 122 : SS-Unterscharfuhrer Konrad Radunski
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Division II 123 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Horst Böhme
- Speakers: SS-Untersturmführer Walter Hermann, SS-Untersturmführer Jütebock;
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Department II 121 : SS-Obersturmführer Wolf
- Auxiliary staff in Office II: Hauptscharführer Brauns, Boy; Oberscharführer Franz Schröder, Hartmann, Jänisch, Firese, Kluckhohn; Squad leader Jakobs, Stiller, Kastner; Unterscharführer Rollenhgange, trouble-free, Konze, Pahnke, Bruhns, Brüderöe, Stüber ucker, Krull, Kruse, Breit, Büchert, trenz, Schuckmann, Gütschow; Rottenführer Haglemann, Brande, Altinger, Schilling, Gerner, Kurt Ehlers
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Central department II 2 : regional evaluation
- Head: SS-Sturmbannführer Höhn
- Speakers at II 2: SS-Untersturmführer Karl Timm , Kortenkampf, V Wächter; Oberscharführer Ulrich, SS-Scharführer Polte, Knöpfel, Sigismund; SS Rottenführer Hanenbruch, Deppner; SS applicants Heinze, Weber, Knigge
- Auxiliary II 2: SS-Untersturmführer Schänzlin; SS-Hauptscharführer Arnold, Behrens, Holtmann; SS Oberscharführer Bluhm, Klaus, Löhndorf, Fritz Müller, Schill; Squad leader Beckhoff, Hans Schmidt, Wittmann, Budnick, Kohl, Kosche, Hoeven; SS Rottenführer, applicant Voss
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Main Department II 21 : Cultural Life
- Head: Obersturmführer Rausch
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II 211 : Science
- SS-Obersturmführer Waldemar Beyer
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II 212 : Public health
- SS-Oberscharführer Jacobi
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II 213 : Race and public health
- Untersturmführer Walter Kurreck
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II 214 : Art
- Hauptscharführer Hennig
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Department II 22 : Community Life
- Obersturmführer Werner Braune
- Department II 221 : Law
- Department II 222 : Administration
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Department II 223 : Education
- Head: Oberscharführer Otto Ohlendorf
- Department II 224 : Press and Literature
- Department II 225 : National Socialism and the State
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Main Department II 23 : Material Life
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Heuckenkam
- Department II 231 : Food Industry
- Department II 232 : Commerce, Crafts and Transport
- Department II 233 : Currency, Banks and Stock Exchanges, Insurance
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Department II 234 : Commercial Economy
- Obersturmführer Gerhard Eilers
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Department II 235 : Finance
- Oberscharfuhrer Wilhelm Seibert
- II 237 : Untersturmführer Hans Leetsch , SS applicant Stern
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Office III : SD-Abroad / Defense
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Central Department III 1 :
- Head: SS-Standartenführer Heinz Jost
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Main Department III 11 : SS-Obersturmführer Volkenborn
- Department III 111 : Party member Paul von Vietinghoff-Scheel
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Main department III 12 : Sturmbannführer Hahn
- Department III 112 : SS-Oberscharführer Bielstein
- Department III 113 : SS-Oberscharführer Wenkausen
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Department III 114 : SS-Oberscharführer Boecker
- III 1212: SS-Oberscharführer Domke
- III 1164: SS-Scharführer Gröhnhim
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Main Department III 11 : SS-Obersturmführer Volkenborn
- Assistants in III 1 : SS-Oberscharführer Morawek; Unterscharführer Mahler, Postus, Smole; Rottenführer Bobach, Dembitzki, Gehring; Sturmmann Prasch;
- Head: SS-Standartenführer Heinz Jost
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Central Department III 2 :
- Head: Standartenführer Heinz Jost
- Speakers at III 2 : SS-Obersturmführer Kuoschm Hufschmidt; SS-Untersturmführer Herm-Thron; Hauptscharführer Bock; tuenrscharführer Klausmeier; SS Rottenführer Baumann
- Assistants in III 2 : SS-Hauptscharführer Endemann; SS-Oberscharführer Fleig; Scharfürher Lehn, amend, Rahn; SS-Unterscharführer: Philip Horn, Boss, Ochsenfahrt; Rottenführer Buchmann, Issel
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Main Department 21 :
- Department III 213 : SS-Untersturmführer Poche
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Main Department 22 :
- Department III 221 : SS-Untersturmführer Alfred Filbert
- Division III 222 : SS-Hauptsturmführer Ohle
- Department III 223 : SS-Hauptscharführer Bauersachs, SS-Hauptsturmführer Rossner
- Department III 225 : SS-Oberscharführer Walter Renken , Untersturmführer Sibert
- Head: Standartenführer Heinz Jost
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Central Department III 1 :
Organizational structure 1938/39
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Office I : Organization
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Central Department I / 1 : Staff Chancellery
- Head: SS-Oberführer Herbert Mehlhorn
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I / 2 : personnel
- Head: Alfons Glatzel
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I / 3 : Press and Museum
- Head: SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Six
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I / 4 : administration
- Head: Bruno Linienbach
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Central Department I / 1 : Staff Chancellery
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Office II : SD-Inland
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Central Department II / 1 : Opponents of ideology
- Head: SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Six
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Department II / 11 : Weltanschauung
- Head: Erich Ehrlinger
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Department II / 111 : Freemasons
- Head: Erich Hengelhaupt
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Department II / 112 : Judaism
- Head: SS-Untersturmführer Herbert Hagen
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Department II / 113 : Confessional Political Currents
- Head: SS-Hauptsturmführer Albert Hartl
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Main section II / 12 : forms of opponents
- Ladder. SS-Untersturmführer Helmut Bone
- Department II / 121 (left movement): SS-Obersturmführer Martin Wolf
- Department II / 122 (middle movement): Karl-Julius Stubel
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Department II / 123 : Right Movement
- Head: H. Seibold
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Central department II / 2 : regional evaluation
- Head: SS-Sturmbannführer Franz Six
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Central Department II / 1 : Opponents of ideology
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Office III : SD abroad
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Central Department III / 1 : Foreign Areas
- Head: SS Brigade Leader Heinz Jost
- Central Department III / 2 : Foreign Policy Defense
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Central Department III / 1 : Foreign Areas
Organizational structure of Office II (SD-Inland) of the RSHA according to the business allocation plan of February 1, 1940
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Office II : ideological research on opponents
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- Department II A : Basic Research
- Head: Rudolf Oebsger-Röder
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Section II A 1 : Press
- Speaker: Helmut Mehringer
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Section II A 2 : Library
- Speaker: Waldemar Beyer
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Section II A 3 : Archive
- Speaker: Paul Dittel
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Section II A 4 : Inquiry Point
- Speaker: Karl Burmester
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Section II A 5 : Liaison point to the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig
- Speaker: Martin Nitsche
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Department II B : ideological research on opponents
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Section II B 1 : Freemasonry
- Speaker: Hans Richter
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Section II B 2 : Judaism
- Speaker: Hans Richter
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Section II B 3 : Political Churches
- Presentation: Albert Hartl
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Section II B 4 : Marxism
- Speaker: Rolf Mühler
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Section II B 5 : Liberalism
- Speaker: Rolf Mühler
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Section II B 1 : Freemasonry
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Division II C : Domestic Problems
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Section II C 1 : Cultural Research
- Speaker: SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Schick
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Section II C 1 : Cultural Research
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Department II D : Foreign Problems
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Section II D 1 : East
- Speaker: Erich Hengelhaupt
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Section II D 2 : Southeast
- Speaker: Emil Steudle
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Section II D 3 : South
- Speaker: SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Haß
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Unit II D 4 : France
- Speaker: SS-Sturmbannführer Andreas Biederbick
- Section II D 5 :?
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Section II D 6 :?
- Speaker: SS-Sturmbannführer Hanke
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Section II D 1 : East
Organizational structure according to the business distribution plan of March 1941
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Office III : German areas of life - SD-Inland
- Head: Chief SS-Standartenführer Otto Ohlendorf
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III A : Questions of the legal order and the building of the empire
- SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Gengenbach (from the end of 1941 SS-Sturmbannführer Wolfgang Reinholz )
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III A 1 : General questions in life area work
- SS Hauptsturmführer Justus Beyer
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III A 2 : Legal life
- SS-Hauptsturmführer and Government Councilor Heinrich Malz
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III A 3 : Constitution and Administration
- supervised by group leader, (from 1944 Erhard Mäding )
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III A 4 : General popular life
- unoccupied
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III B : Volkstum
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Ehlich
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III B 1 : Volkstumsarbeit
- SS Hauptsturmführer Heinz Hummitzsch
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III B 2 : minorities
- currently unoccupied
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III B 3 : Race and Public Health
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Schneider
- III B 4 (Immigration and Resettlement): SS-Sturmbannführer and Government Councilor Bruno Müller
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III B 5 : Occupied Territories
- SS-Sturmbannführer Eberhard Freiherr von und zu Steinfurth
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III C : culture
- SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Spengler
- III C 1 (science): SS-Hauptsturmführer Ernst Turowski
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III C 2 : Education and religious life
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Seibert , from mid-1942 SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Böhmer
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III C 3 : Popular culture and art
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Rößner
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III C 4 : Press, literature and radio
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Walter von Kielpinski
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III D : Economy
- currently vacant, deputy SS-Sturmbannführer Willi Seibert
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III D 1 : Food industry
- currently unoccupied
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III D 2 : Trade, craft and transport
- SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Kröger
- III D 3 : Industry and energy: currently vacant
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III D 4 : Labor and social affairs
- SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Leetsch
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Office VII : Weltanschauung research and evaluation - SD abroad
- Head: Chief SS-Standartenführer Franz Six (from the end of 1943 SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Dittel)
- Representative: SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat Paul Mylius
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VII A : Material registration
- SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat Paul Mylius
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VII A 1 : Library
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Waldemar Beyer
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VII A 2 : Reporting, translation service, viewing and exploitation of press material
- SS Hauptsturmführer Helmut Mehringer
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VII A 3 : Credit agency and liaison office
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Burmester
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VII B : Evaluation
- currently unoccupied
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VII B 1 : Freemasonry and Judaism
- currently unoccupied
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VII B 2 : Political Churches
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Friedrich Murawski
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VII B 3 : Marxism
- SS-Untersturmführer Horst Mahnke , Moscow advance command of Einsatzgruppe B
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VII B 4 : Other groups of opponents
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Rolf Mühler
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VII B 5 : Scientific individual studies on domestic problems
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Schick
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VII B 6 : Scientific individual studies on international problems
- currently unoccupied
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VII C : Archive, Museum and Special Scientific Commissions
- currently unoccupied
- VII C 1 (archive): SS-Hauptsturmführer Paul Dittel
- VII C 2 : Museum
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VII C 3 : Scientific special orders
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Levin
literature
- Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .