Arnold Lentzen

Josef Arnold Lentzen , also Arnolf Lentzen (born June 30, 1902 in Aachen , † 1956 ) was a German political functionary and SA leader, most recently with the rank of SA brigade leader . Among other things, he was area commissioner in Kaunas -Land during the Second World War .

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In his youth, Lentzen attended high school up to Untersekunda and then a commercial private school. He then worked in his parents' bakery business and later successively as a fitter, volunteer , racing driver and driving instructor at home and abroad.

After the First World War , Lentzen was a member of the Hauenstein Freikorps , with whom he participated in the border guard in Upper Silesia . After hearing a speech by Hitler in May 1923, he joined the NSDAP for the first time . In November 1923 he took part in the Munich Hitler putsch .

From 1924 to 1927 Lentzen was active in the Völkischer Wanderbund . On December 1, 1930 he rejoined the NSDAP. At the same time he became a member of the SA . In this he quickly advanced from a simple SA man in Aachen Storm 16 to squad leader and then promoted to squad leader. On September 22, 1931, he was entrusted with the management of SA Storm 21 in Düren , before he took over SA-Sturmbann IV / 25 on September 1, 1932 and SA Standard 161 in Düren on November 9, 1933.

On September 15, 1935, Lentzen moved to Düsseldorf and from there as head of the "Organization of OSAF Fighting Games" department in the Supreme SA leadership . In this position he was promoted to SA Oberführer .

After the start of the Second World War, he was assigned to the Ostland group in October 1939. Lentzen served within the German civil administration for the occupied eastern territories from August 1941 to summer 1944 as area commissioner for the region - but not the city - Kaunas. In this capacity he “ruled” over 700,000 people who were resident within his area of responsibility. In 1943 Lentzen received the rank of brigade leader in the SA.

literature

Horst Wallraff: National Socialism in the Düren and Jülich districts. Tradition and "Thousand Year Reich" in a Rhineland region 1933 to 1945 , Düren 2000.

Individual evidence

↑ Full name and alternative name according to: Bert Hoppe , Hiltrud Glass (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, Baltic States and Transnistria. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , here p. 543
↑ Lentzen's year of death according to Bert Hoppe, Hiltrud Glass (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria . Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , here p. 543
↑ Bert Hoppe, Hiltrud Glass (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , here p. 543
↑ Beate Kosmala: Facing the Nazi Genocide. Non-Jews and Jews in Europe , Berlin 2004, p. 158. Commissioner Hans Kramer was responsible for the city of Kaunas.

personal data
SURNAME	Lentzen, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lentzen, Arnold Josef (full name); Lentzen Arnolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SA leader and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	1956

[1] Full name and alternative name according to: Bert Hoppe , Hiltrud Glass (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, Baltic States and Transnistria. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , here p. 543

[2] Lentzen's year of death according to Bert Hoppe, Hiltrud Glass (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria . Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , here p. 543

[3] Bert Hoppe, Hiltrud Glass (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , here p. 543

[4] Beate Kosmala: Facing the Nazi Genocide. Non-Jews and Jews in Europe , Berlin 2004, p. 158. Commissioner Hans Kramer was responsible for the city of Kaunas.