Anton Diermann

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Franz Anton Diermann (born February 25, 1889 in Hüsten ; † July 23, 1962 or 1982 in Ettlingen ) was a German police officer, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the police in World War II .

Life

Anton Diermann was the son of the master tailor Theodor Diermann and his wife Elisabeth Linkamp. After attending high school, he passed his Abitur in his hometown in 1908. He then studied classical philology and German at the universities of Münster and Bonn until 1912, but did not graduate. He took part in the First World War from September 1914 to November 1918 as a member of the Army of the German Empire , most recently with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. From the end of January 1919 to the end of March 1920 he was a member of the Freikorps Lichtschlag . He then immediately joined the Prussian police with duty stations in the Ruhr area and Schleswig-Holstein. At the beginning of May 1927 he joined the Prussian country hunt . Meanwhile promoted to major in the police, he was transferred to the commandant's office in Trier.

At the beginning of the Nazi era , he joined the NSDAP in early May 1933 ( membership number 2.041.943 ). After the vote in the Saar area in January 1935, he headed the Saarland Jäger Corps of the League of Nations . During the Second World War , after the German occupation of Poland in the autumn of 1939, he became the commander of the gendarmerie in Danzig . From 1941 he was employed in the rank of lieutenant colonel of the police at the head of civil administration in Alsace in Strasbourg .

At the beginning of February 1942 he moved to the general district of Belarus in Minsk , where he held the post of commander of the gendarmerie. In the course of the murder of the Belarusian Jews, the locally responsible commander of the security police and SD (KdS) Eduard Strauch instructed the local gendarmerie posts to immediately inform them of the "number and strength of all remaining communities under the heading of selecting Jewish skilled workers". Diermann immediately ordered the departments under his control to respond directly to this request.

In autumn 1942 he was transferred to Prague , where he commanded the 20th police regiment and became inspector of the Protectorate Police . At the beginning of September 1942 he became a member of the Schutzstaffel and only two months later he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer and in April 1943 to SS-Oberführer. From mid-September 1943 he was in command of the Ordnungspolizei at the Higher SS and Police Leader in Danzig. At the end of January 1944 he was finally promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Police, his highest SS and police rank. At the end of February 1944 he became head of the command office in the main police force in Berlin. After a compulsory leave of absence in August 1944, he was briefly re-used as provisional police chief of Wiesbaden from February 1945 .

After the end of the war, Diermann was interned by the Allies. In the post-war period against Diermann was determined, u. a. because of the shooting of around 800 Jews in the Sluzk area in the spring of 1942 . The proceedings were finally discontinued by the Karlsruhe public prosecutor in 1965.

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 111.
  • On the history of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1945 , 1 and 2. Hans Joachim Neufeldt: Development and organization of the Ordnungspolizei main office . In: Schriften des Bundesarchivs, Edition 3, H. Boldt Verlag, 1957, p. 108.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg online and online research at the Hamburg State Archives
  2. ^ Christian Gerlach : Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Study edition. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-930908-63-8 (also dissertation at TU Berlin 1998), p. 33, footnote 379
  3. ^ Christian Gerlach : Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Study edition. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-930908-63-8 (also dissertation at TU Berlin 1998), p. 33, footnote 378
  4. ^ Christian Gerlach : Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Study edition. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-930908-63-8 (also dissertation at TU Berlin 1998), p. 141 f.
  5. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: State Archive Ludwigsburg, holdings: EL 48/2 I State Criminal Police Office Baden-Württemberg: Investigations against violent Nazi criminals (approx. 1940-1945) / approx. 1955-1994
personal data
SURNAME Diermann, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diermann, Franz Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, most recently SS brigade leader and major general of the police
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cough
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1962
Place of death Ettlingen