Carl Caspary

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Carl Caspary (born August 21, 1898 in Illingen (Saar) ; † February 18, 1977 in Saarbrücken ) was a German SA leader , most recently with the rank of group leader .

Life

Caspary was the son of a pharmacist. He attended the secondary school in Völklingen . Before completing his school career, he took part in World War I as a war volunteer from 1915 , initially with Infantry Regiment No. 70. He was deployed on both the Eastern and Western Fronts and later switched from infantry to the air force . Caspary suffered multiple war injuries and suffered permanent damage to his left hand due to the war. With awards and the rank of sub-lieutenant , he was discharged from the army after the war and was able to catch up on his Abitur . From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Lumspange Freikorps in Berlin .

Immediately after the Freikorps time he graduated to 1924 at the Universities of Munich and Erlangen study: According to the information at Lilla he studied medicine and received his doctorate Dr. med. After Campbell, he studied economics and received his doctorate in 1924 with the dissertation “The poor employment institute d. City of Nuremberg ”. It is possible that he also completed both courses in parallel. After graduating, he initially worked in the preparatory administrative service in the Reich Ministry of Finance and then worked for the Didier company in Berlin .

Caspary became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 21,538) while he was still a student in Erlangen in 1921 and at the same time began to get involved in the SA . After Caspary in 1929 during the Great Depression was released, he began again to operate Nazi. He then rejoined the NSDAP in January 1930 under membership number 180.713 and became active again for the SA. Gauleiter Josef Bürckel made Caspary work full-time for the SA at the end of 1931 and was initially sent to Pirmasens to pacify the divided local group and was entrusted with the deputy management of the SA sub-group Pfalz-Saar.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , in mid-March 1933 he became a special representative of the Supreme SA leadership at the Pirmasens district office and, from the beginning of January 1934, also at the Zweibrücken district office . With the rank of standard leader he headed the SA standard 5 in Pirmasens from the beginning of October 1933 to April 1935. After the unification of the Saar area with the German Reich , Caspary was entrusted with the reorganization of the SA in Saarland in April 1935 and headed the SA from November 1935 -Bigade leader SA Brigade 151 in Saarbrücken. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, he headed the newly created SA Reich Leader School in Vienna from spring 1938. Caspary was proposed as a supplementary election for the Reichstag in April 1938, but was not elected to the National Socialist Reichstag .

After the beginning of the Second World War , he did military service as a long-range reconnaissance officer and left the Wehrmacht at the beginning of 1942 with the rank of major . Immediately after his appointment as SA group leader, he headed the SA group Kurpfalz from the beginning of February 1942 until 1945. In the end of the war he was involved in building and organizing the flak and Volkssturm units.

Towards the end of the war he stayed in Schliersee and later fell into Allied captivity.

literature

  • Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky 2004, ISBN 978-0-8131-9098-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington 2004, pp. 66-68
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Caspary, Carl Baptist, in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945
  3. ^ Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg : Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, Volumes 64–65, JL Schrag Verlag, 1977, p. 389
personal data
SURNAME Caspary, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Illingen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1977
Place of death Saarbrücken