Commander of the Security Police and the SD

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The commanders of the security police and the security service or commanders of the SiPo and the SD or BdS for short were during the Second World War in the areas occupied by National Socialist Germany by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) appointed heads of a kind of RSHA branch office. Several “commanders of the security police and SD” (KdS) were subordinate to a BdS. They had essentially the same tasks as the task forces .

Emergence

When the attack on Poland began in September 1939, the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD (consisting of Einsatzkommandos or Sonderkommandos) deployed first in the General Government for the occupied Polish territories , then also in the remaining rear army areas for "carrying out special security police tasks outside the troops" corresponded in their structure to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), so that these were also referred to as "mobile RSHA" or "RSHA in small".

In the rear areas of the occupied territories, in which there was no longer any fighting and the occupation administration had already established itself, the units of the task forces were converted into stationary institutions for certain spatial areas, in which they had to perform similar tasks as the security police in the Reich . Like the Einsatzgruppen before, they were also involved in intelligence activities with “ special treatment ” (ie the murder ) of the Jews .

Areas of application and structure

A commander of the security police and the SD (BdS) was appointed for each occupied country. The only exceptions were Alsace , Lorraine , the Warthegau , the Generalgouvernement and the Reichskommissariate " Ostland " and Ukraine , for each of which a separate BdS was appointed. At the lower regional level, several “commanders of the security police and SD” were subordinate to the BdS.

In the east two "Reichskommissariate" were formed after the front had frozen in the winter of 1941/42:

In these, a BdS and a BdO (“Commander of the Ordnungspolizei”) were used for police matters. An HSSPF (Higher SS and Police Leader ) responsible for the interests of the entire police force was superordinate to the BdS and BdO. The Reichskommissariate were again divided into “Generalkommissariate” or “ Generalbezirke ”, in which there were analogously the KdS and the KdO (“Commander of the Ordnungspolizei”) as well as the SSPF (SS and Police Leader). Each KdS was in turn subordinate to several field offices.

Analogous to the relationship between BdS and KdS, the BdO was in charge of all “commanders of the Ordnungspolizei” (KdO) in a Reich Commissioner. The BdO commanded the protective police in the cities, the gendarmerie in the country and the police troops in the form of police battalions deployed in the event of war.

The command route thus ran from the RSHA to the BdS and from there to the KdS or from the main office Orpo to the BdO and the KdO. For special tasks of the Reichsführer SS , however, Heinrich Himmler's higher SS and police leaders (HSSPF) directly subordinate to all units of the SS and the police were also authorized to give instructions and give orders to the BdS and BdO (e.g. for the " Fight against partisans " by the HSSPF Russia-Center and "Chief of the gang fighting units ", SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski ). In practice, the subordination to the civil administration of the occupied territories, which had to be decided on a case-by-case basis, remained of secondary importance.

Establishment of an office according to the RSHA

  • Department I - Human Resources
  • Department II - Administration
  • Department III - SD
  • Department IV - Gestapo
  • Department V - Criminal Police

Personnel occupations

(List is exemplary and incomplete!)

see also SS main offices (organizational scheme )

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