Bernhard Voss

Bernhard Heinrich Voss , also Bernhard Voss , (born June 29, 1892 in Elberfeld , † February 4, 1947 in Prague ) was a German officer , most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS .

biography

The trained civil engineer joined the Magdeburg Pioneer Battalion No. 4 in 1914 as a squire and took part in the First World War, most recently as a major at the commandant's office of the Markendorf pioneer training area. After the war he was awarded the rank of first lieutenant several times, including the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross , and discharged from the army.

From 1919 he was employed in the police service and, during the Weimar Republic, with the Jüterbog security police and later with police schools. From 1923 to 1928 he was a member of the Stahlhelm .

With the beginning of the National Socialist era , he was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 2.626.083) from the beginning of March 1933 and two years later of the Schutzstaffel (SS number 257.070). In 1933 he became head of the organizational department of the state police staff at the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and in 1934 was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the state police. From the spring of 1935 he worked full-time for the SS and initially worked as a main consultant and liaison officer at the SS court on the staff of the Reichsführer-SS . From mid-July 1935 to November 1938 he was in command of the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz . Initially from 1935 SS-Obersturmbannführer and SS-Standartenführer , he was appointed SS-Oberführer in 1938 and in November 1942 SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS . From November 1939 to June 1941 he was in command of the SS-Totenkopf-Standarte VI, which had a strength of 2,400 soldiers. From November 1939 to 1943 he was also a staff leader in the SS Upper Spree section. From June 1940 to May 1941 he was in command of the Waffen SS in Norway. From August to November 1941 he was staff leader of the SS headquarters of the Waffen SS in Berlin . From November 1941 to July 1942 he commanded the SS training area in Bohemia in Beneschau in occupied Czechoslovakia and from around July 1942 to September 1944 the SS training area in Heidelager in Debica (Poland). Then he was employed in the SS leadership main office . Voss has received several awards, most recently in November 1944 with the War Merit Cross, First Class with Swords.

Voss was sentenced to death in 1947 for his crimes in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and executed in Prague.

swell

• 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.
• Peter Witte: Heinrich Himmler's 1941/42 service calendar . Christians, 1999, ISBN 3-7672-1329-X , p. 725.
• Thierry Tixier: General-SS, Police et Waffen-SS Officiers, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics. Volume 2, December 2016, ISBN 978-1-32654-867-4 , p. 1945.