Alexander von Humboldt (SA member)

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Alexander Wilhelm Ernst Bernhard Freiherr von Humboldt-Dachroeden (born September 20, 1886 in Berlin ; † May 24, 1940 in Remscheid ) was a German SA leader, most recently with the rank of SA brigade leader .

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Humboldt came from the von Humboldt noble family . He was the son of Lieutenant General Franz Günther Wilhelm Alexander von Humboldt-Dachroeden (1858–1942) and his wife Ida (1862–1935), née Wagner, the daughter of a glassworks owner.

From 1914 to 1918 Humboldt took part in the First World War as Rittmeister , in which he was awarded the Iron Cross , among other things .

Around 1930 Humboldt found a connection with the Nazi movement, in whose task force and private army, the Sturmabteilung (SA), he made a career in the following years. In 1932 he can be verified as head of a department in the Supreme SA leadership in Munich. From 1933 to June 30, 1934, Humboldt then acted as staff leader of August Schneidhuber , the leader of the several ten thousand strong SA Upper Group VII (southern Germany), which had its headquarters in Munich. As staff leader of the upper group, Humboldt was functionally the second highest SA leader in Bavaria until the violent removal from office and shooting of Schneidhuber in the course of the Röhm affair in summer 1934 and the subsequent reorganization of the group. In this capacity he organized, among other things, the large SA marches during the Nazi party rally of 1933.

In the SA hierarchy he held the rank of SA chief according to the Führer order of July 1, 1933 with effect from June 15, 1933. On September 1, 1933, he was promoted to Brigade Leader.

From October 1, 1934 until his death in 1940, Humboldt was finally made available to the Supreme SA leadership.

Humboldt married Katharina Daum on October 7, 1911 (* November 17, 1891). The sons Wilhelm von Humboldt-Dachroeden (* 1912) and Hans von Humboldt-Dachroeden (1919–1941) as well as the daughter Maria Anna von Humboldt-Dachroeden (1916–2003) emerged, who in 1941 was Hubertus von Prussia , a son of the last German Crown Prince, married.

literature

  • Horst Henrich: The organization of the supreme SA leadership. With ranking list of Obergruppenführer, Gruppen- und Brigadführer , 1966, p. 366.
  • Der SA-Mann , issues from September and October 1933.
  • Andreas Schulz (Ed.): The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch , 2003, p. 201.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria-Anna Sybilla Margaretha Baronin von Humboldt-Dachroeden on thepeerage.com , accessed on July 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Humboldt, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1940
Place of death Remscheid