Alfred Karrasch (SS member)

Alfred Walter Karrasch (born January 26, 1889 in Oppeln , † August 30, 1968 in Tutzing ) was a German police officer, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the Schutzpolizei and also major general of the Waffen SS .

biography

Karrasch was the son of a brewery owner. In 1909 he became a flag junior in West Prussia . He attended the military academy in Berlin from 1912 to 1914 and was adjutant in 1914. He served in the First World War . In 1915 he became a first lieutenant and company commander, and in 1918 a captain . During the war he received the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class. In 1918 he was a candidate for the General Staff. In 1919 he became a police captain with the security police and then with the voting police in Katowice and Gleiwitz . In 1922, after the partition of Upper Silesia , he was captain of the police in Opole and in 1926 police major .

In 1933 Karrasch became the commander of the security police in Halle . He had been a member of the NSDAP since April 1933 , of the General SS since 1940 and of the Waffen SS since 1942. In 1937 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the protection police as now inspector of the police order (OrPo) of the Mark Brandenburg in Berlin.

In 1939, after the beginning of the Second World War, he was transferred to the Cologne police administration. He became the commander of an SS Police Pioneer Battalion in the SS Police Division. In 1940 he was the commander of the Moravian Police Regiment in Brno . From March 1941 he was in command of the Northern Norway Police Regiment in Trondheim and he was promoted to Colonel of the Police and SS Standartenführer . From October 1941 he was the first inspector of the pioneering work in the SS leadership main office. In June 1942 he was temporarily acting commander of the SS military training area in Böhmen in Beneschau as SS-Oberführer , from July to September 1942 acting commander of the Waffen-SS Bohemia and Moravia (mdWdGb) and then as the successor to SS-Oberführer Bernhard Voss from November 1942 until May 1945 commander of the SS military training area Bohemia in Beneschau.

In July 1944 he was promoted to major general of the Schutzpolizei and at the same time to SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS. On May 9, 1945 in Beneschau he signed the surrender for his area of ​​command to the US Army . Karrasch was married twice. Nothing is known about his life after the end of the war.

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• Thierry Tixier: General SS, Police et Waffen SS, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics . 2016, ISBN 978-1-32654-867-4 .
• Michael D. Miller, Gareth Collins: SS Brigadier and Major General of the Police (OS) (in English). In: Axis Biographical Research. From the original dated April 14, 2014.