Curt Ludwig

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Curt Ludwig

Curt Ludwig , also Kurt Ludwig , (born March 28, 1902 in Aschara ; † April 2, 1989 in Bremen ) was police president of Bremen, politician ( NSDAP ) and SS leader at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Ludwig attended the village school in Aschara and then the middle school in Langensalza . He then went to the agricultural school in Gotha and was a member of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade from 1919 to 1923 . He then worked as a farmer in his hometown of Aschara, later in neighboring Wiegleben. He joined the NSDAP in spring 1923 and the SA on November 10, 1923 . After re-entry into the NSDAP on August 29, 1925 (membership number 17,225) he was district leader of the party in Gotha and Langensalza from 1926 to March 1932. He rejoined the SA in 1926 and founded this Nazi organization in Thuringia . From 1926 to 1929 he was a member of SA Standard 5 (Gotha). After switching to the SS on April 1, 1929 (membership number 1,397), he was also a co-founder of this Nazi organization in Thuringia. Until 1932 he was an agricultural district advisor . In February 1932 he attended a course at the Reichsfuhrer School in Munich and was then leader of SS-Sturmbanns I / 14 (Gotha) until November 16, 1933. In March 1932, on the orders of Heinrich Himmler , he resigned all his party offices outside the SS.

From 1929 to 1933 Ludwig was a member of the Landtag in Thuringia and from November 12, 1933 he was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for the constituency of Thuringia and later for the constituency of Weser-Ems . From November 1933 to March he was the leader of SS-Standarte 67 and then until July 1935 of SS-Standarte 57. From May to July 1935 he completed a police course with the 5th Hundred of the 2nd State Police Department in Leipzig-Möckern. As a police sergeant, he became Reichsbauernrat in July 1935 . From August 1935 to September 1937 he led SS-Section XXX ( Kassel ). From October 1937 he led SS Section XIV (Bremen-Horn). Initially, Ludwig became provisional police chief in Bremen on April 20, 1938 and then officially from March 2, 1939. At the beginning of 1940 he became platoon leader of the 4th MG Company of the 12th SS Totenkopfstandarte, but on April 22, 1940 he was given leave again and released from the Waffen SS . On August 1, 1941, he was accused of drunkenness, incompatibility and failure in air protection issues and was replaced by Johannes Schroers . On February 4, 1942, he was rehabilitated by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , as there were no allegations against him in any way. In order not to have to make another change at the head of the Bremen police, Ludwig was appointed to the staff of the Higher SS and Police Leader in Reichsgau Wartheland , where he was employed by the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity (RKF). In May 1942 he was dismissed from the service of the Waffen SS. He remained SS leader in the RKF headquarters until February 1943, then became leader of SS Section V (Essen), which he remained until January 1, 1944. He then became an SS leader in the staff of the SS Upper Section Fulda-Werra and remained so until 1945. During this time, he was transferred to the SS Panzer Grenadier School in Kienschlag. For a short time he was later still in the war with the SS Regiment Westland. Shortly before the end of the war, on April 20, 1945, he was appointed SS Brigade Leader.

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Awards

• Golden party badge of the NSDAP

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Curt Ludwig in the database of members of the Reichstag