Adolf Katz (SS member)

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Adolf Katz

Adolf Friedrich Heinrich Katz (born March 9, 1899 in Hanover ; † May 7, 1980 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), lawyer, police president and SS leader , most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the weapons SS .

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The teacher's son passed the Abitur in 1917 after attending the Goethe Gymnasium in Hanover . He joined the Imperial Army in June 1917 and took part in the First World War as a soldier in the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 10 and from January 1918 in the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 47 . From November 1918 to March 1919 he was a member of the Eastern Border Guard .

He then studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1919 to 1923 . During his studies, he took part in the battles against the Ruhr in the spring of 1920 as a member of the Göttingen temporary volunteer battalion . From 1923 to the beginning of 1925, Katz was a trainee lawyer and in 1925 was awarded Dr. jur. PhD . From 1925 to 1933 he worked in the insurance industry.

He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 149.075) in early September 1929 and the SS in June 1930 (SS number 3.199). From 1933 he was a city councilor in Essen . From October 18, 1933 to at least December 31, 1936, Katz served as police chief of Aachen and was officially retired in mid-March 1937. Since October 1931 he was part-time SS leader on January 1, 1937, and was appointed leader of SS Section XXXIV in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . On November 9, 1937, he was appointed SS-Oberführer . From the beginning of November 1938 to the beginning of June 1939 he was on the staff of the SS main office and then as head of the office and head of the SS personnel office / central card index in the SS main office.

From March 1936 to April 1938, Katz was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen) and then from April 1938 until the end of the Nazi regime as a member of constituency 4 (Potsdam) .

Shortly before the start of the Second World War , Katz was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a lieutenant in the reserve at the end of August 1939 . From mid-December 1939 he commanded the II./SS-Totenkopf- Artillerie-Ratzabteilung and was transferred to the Waffen-SS as reserve leader in early March 1940 . Subsequently employed as commander of various artillery departments of the SS Totenkopfdivision , he was released from the Waffen SS in September 1942 as SS Standartenführer of the reserve. He was then transferred to the SS Personnel Main Office, where from November 1942 until the end of the war he was head of Office Group II (young leaders) and at the same time deputy head of the SS Personnel Main Office. From April 20, 1943, he was taken into active service in the Waffen-SS as SS-Oberführer, on January 30, 1944 he was promoted to SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS. From the beginning of March 1945 he was still used in the SS Personnel Main Office as head of Office Group C (Personnel Office Waffen-SS).

After the Second World War , Katz, who was active as a representative in the private sector, no longer appeared in public.

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literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Katz, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katz, Adolf Friedrich Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), lawyer, policeman, member of the German parliament and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1980
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe