Berthold Maack

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Berthold Maack (born March 24, 1898 in Altona (Elbe) , † September 26, 1981 in Meran , Italy ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and officer, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS .

Life

Maack volunteered to take part in the First World War in 1915. In 1917 he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve in the 1st Guard Reserve Regiment. From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of a volunteer corps. Then he learned a commercial profession.

In 1930 Maack joined the NSDAP ( membership number 314.088). He also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party's paramilitary street fighting unit. In 1931 he switched to the party's police force, the Schutzstaffel (SS) (SS No. 15.690). In this he was promoted to SS-Sturmführer in 1931 and to the rank of SS-Standartenführer on October 5, 1932.

A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power in April 1933, Maack received a mandate as a member of the Braunschweig Landtag , to which he was a member until the body was dissolved in autumn 1933.

In 1933 Maack became the staff leader of the SS upper section Southeast (Silesia) led by Udo von Woyrsch . This post, in which he was promoted to SS-Oberführer on November 9, 1933 , he held until 1934. During this time he was involved in the organization of the arrest and execution measures carried out in the early summer of 1934 in the course of the Nazi government's political cleansing action, known as the " Röhm Putsch ". In particular, on July 1, 1934, he commissioned his colleague Exner, at Woyrsch's instigation, to shoot the arrested Reichstag member and former SS member Emil Sembach . Exner got rid of this task by taking Sembach, interned in Oels, on a car trip into the Giant Mountains, shooting him on the way and throwing the tied up corpse, weighted down with stones, into a reservoir near Boberröhrdorf.

From October 22 to December 4, 1934, Maack served in the Dachau concentration camp . He then carried the 39th SS standard . On September 13, 1936, he was promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer in the General SS. In 1940 Maack succeeded in being accepted into the Waffen SS, albeit with the rank of Obersturmführer in the reserve. It was first used in the SS standard "Germania". On April 20, 1940 he was made Hauptsturmführer of the Reserve, then on December 1st to Sturmbannführer d. R. appointed. From November 9, 1941 he was Obersturmbannführer d. R. active in the SS division "Wiking" as commander of the tank destroyer division. After April 20, 1943, he was to be found as a standard leader in the SS mountain division "North". From September 8 to October 7, 1944, Oberführer Maack attended the division leader course. On January 29, 1945 Maack took over the leadership of the 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Hungarian No. 2) and in March he commanded the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Estonian No. 1) .

Shortly before his death in 1980 he published the work Preussen in Graebert Verlag . Each his own .

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literature

  • Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch . Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 .
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preradovich, Nikolaus von .: The Generals of the Waffen SS . Vowinckel-Verlag, Berg am See 1985, ISBN 3-921655-41-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Maack, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP) and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1981
Place of death Merano , Italy