Walter Griphan

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Walter Griphan (born July 2, 1891 in Gremmelin , Mecklenburg ; † March 3, 1947 in Dachau ) was a German police officer at the time of National Socialism and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS brigade leader and major general of the police.

Life

Griphan, son of a teacher, completed his school career at the secondary school of the large city school in Rostock in September 1912 with the final exam. He then completed an internship at Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Charlottenburg and, from October 1913, studied electrical engineering and mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . When the First World War broke out, he broke off his studies and from August 1914 took part in the war as a volunteer with the fusilier regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90 . He was u. a. as platoon and company commander, battalion adjutant and regimental intelligence officer and retired after the end of the war in mid-February 1919 with the rank of lieutenantout of the army. Then he joined the Reichswehr . He casually began studying political science at the University of Rostock and took effect in July 1919 in the service of the police Hamburg , where he part-his studies from 1920 to 1924 at the University of Hamburg in trade regulations continued and political science. Griphan, the lieutenant colonel in the police force

In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Griphan was admitted to the NSDAP ( membership number 1.443.628) at the beginning of January 1933 and from that point on was press officer for the local NSDAP branch of police officers . Since he had belonged to a lodge for almost a year from February 1923 , he was forbidden from exercising party offices in April 1936 by the NSDAP district court in Altona . This sentence was overturned after an amnesty in February 1939. After the annexation of Austria in April 1938 transferred from Hamburg to Vienna , where he headed the headquarters of the police in Vienna. He returned to Hamburg in the same function after the beginning of the Second World War in 1940. In June 1940 he became a member of the SS (SS no. 354.169).

Griphan's SS and police ranks
date rank
February 1932 Police major
February 1937 Lieutenant Colonel of the Security Police
August 1940 Colonel of the security police
November 1940 SS standard leader
November 1943 SS-Oberführer
April 1944 SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police

In the spring of 1941 he moved to Dresden and from there immediately to Lublin , where he was deployed as commander of the regulatory police . In personal union he headed the Lublin Police Regiment. Griphan gave the order to liquidate arrested Jews "on the spot" and not to transfer them to the special court in Lublin.

From November 1941 to the beginning of May 1942 he headed the staff at the commander of the Ordnungspolizei (BdS) in the Reich Commissariat Ostland . He was then commander of the protective police in Hamburg and from the end of August 1942 in the same position in Frankfurt am Main for two weeks . From September 1943 to April 1945 he was first inspector and from December 1943 in command of the Ordnungspolizei Bayern-Nord at the Higher SS and Police Leader Main in military district XIII with headquarters in Nuremberg . After the war he was in American custody and committed in March 1947 suicide in detention Dachau .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rostock matriculation portal - matriculation by Walter Griphan
  2. ↑ Joachim Lilla : Griphan, Walter , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria 1918 to 1945
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Curilla : The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939-1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77043-1 , p. 687
  4. ↑ Stefan Klemp: "Not determined". Police Battalions and the Post War Justice. A manual . 2nd edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0663-1 , p. 248
  5. ↑ Stefan Klemp: "Not determined". Police Battalions and the Post War Justice. A manual . 2nd edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0663-1 , p. 51
personal data
SURNAME Griphan, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Gremmelin
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1947
Place of death Dachau