Rudolf Tröger
Rudolf Tröger (born April 23, 1905 in Leipzig , † June 18, 1940 in France ) was a German lawyer with the rank of government director, SS leader , Gestapo employee and leader of the Einsatzkommando 16 of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD .
Life
Rudolf Tröger studied law and received his doctorate as Dr. jur. at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation : Organization of Labor and World Labor Law , which appeared in 1930.
Tröger became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 ( membership number 2,434,089). The SS came Troeger 1933 (SS no. 261192) and then was also a member of the SD .
From 1933 Tröger headed the police department in Leipzig. Tröger moved to the Secret State Police Office in Berlin in August 1937 and was transferred to the Chemnitz State Police Station in November 1937 . From the spring of 1939 Tröger worked as the head of the political police in Danzig . In the SS Tröger was promoted to Sturmbannführer on April 20, 1939.
After the beginning of the Second World War he headed the Gestapo in Danzig and was the leader of Einsatzkommando 16, which was used in West Prussia to murder the Polish intelligentsia. From November 1939 Tröger was inspector of the security police and the SD (IdS) in the area of Danzig-West Prussia . Tröger died as a lieutenant in an infantry regiment of the Wehrmacht in combat operations during the western campaign while trying to cross the Maginot Line .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
- Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus : Task Force Groups in Poland: Presentation and Documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 . (Volume 12 of the publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart.)
- Carsten Schreiber: Elite in the Secret - Ideology and Regional Rule Practice of the Security Service of the SS and its Network Using the Example of Saxony, Studies on Contemporary History , Volume 77, Oldenbourg Wissenschafts-Verlag GmbH, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58543-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Tröger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Tröger on www.dws-xip.pl
- ↑ a b c Carsten Schreiber: Elite in the Hidden - Ideology and Regional Rule Practice of the Security Service of the SS and its Network Using the Example of Saxony , Munich 2008, p. 401f.
- ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 41
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 630
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tröger, Rudolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, SS-Oberführer and Gestapo employee |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1905 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1940 |
Place of death | France |