Emil Finnberg

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Albert Heinrich Emil Finnberg (* 27. June 1909 in Hamburg , † thirtieth July 2005 ) was a German lawyer, sturmbannführer , member of the Einsatzgruppe A , deputy head of SD subheading Breslau and later honorary member of the full board of the Federal Association of the security industry (BDSW).

Life

Emil Finnberg was the son of the businessman Emil Finnberg senior and his wife Käthe, née Kerner. He completed his school career in 1930 at the Johanneum in Hamburg and then completed a law degree , which he began at the University of Marburg . Finnberg was from 1933 to 1935 in the Reichseinheitsverband des Deutschen Bewachungsgewerbes eV secretary of the Hamburg-Nordmark group. He was awarded a Dr. jur. doctorate , the title of his dissertation was "The denial and withdrawal of the business license due to unreliability".

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Finnberg joined the NSDAP in early May 1933 ( membership number 3.027.410) and in November 1933 the SS (SS number 194.365). In 1935 he became a full-time SS leader.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Finnberg was a member of the staff of the Inspector of the Security Police and the SD (IdS) in Düsseldorf, Hans Nockemann , and followed him as a consultant in Office II of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). In the course of the attack on the Soviet Union , he was deployed from late June 1941 to early October 1941 as an adjutant and personal assistant in the staff of Einsatzgruppe A under Walter Stahlecker . Afterwards he was investigating officer for the commander of the security police and the SD (BdS) in Riga .

Then Finnberg was deployed as deputy head of the SD office in Breslau. In November 1942 he achieved the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer . In the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial in 1965 he was a. a. questioned about the so-called emergency order and announced during a testimony: "For me, a Führer order was law." He is named as a "discharge witness " in the Brown Book .

After the end of the war, Finnberg worked as a lawyer in Hamburg and from 1952 was managing director of the company Wach- und Werkschutz Harburg GmbH. For the Bundesverband Deutscher Wach- und Sicherheitsunternehmen eV (Federal Association of German Guard and Security Companies), he was available as deputy chairman of the Hamburg-Bremen regional group. As legal advisor, he was at the side of the federal association. During his active time he was particularly committed to training in the security industry. Among other things, he worked on the introduction of a factory security manual. In May 1983 Finnberg was made an honorary member of the entire board of the BDSW.

literature

  • Stephan Jegielka: "Lively healing calls" - The foundation of the Reichseinheitsverband des Deutschen Bewachungsgewerbes e. V. 1933 , in: Rundbrief 3/4 AG right-wing extremism / antifascism, Berlin 2012, pp. 53–59.
  • Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Erich Volkmann: The Wehrmacht: Myth and Reality . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 1999, ISBN 3-486-56383-1 , p. 933 f.
  • Andrej Angrick (author), Peter Klein (author), Ray Brandon (translator): The "Final Solution" in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944 . Berghahn Books Inc 2009, ISBN 1-84545-608-4 .
  • Imke Hansen: Shared History - Divided Memory. Jews and Others in Soviet-Occupied Poland 1939–1941. Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-240-5 , p. 358.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrej Angrick, Peter Klein: The "Final Solution" in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944 . P. 53
  2. ^ French L. MacLean: The field men: the SS officers who led the Einsatzkommandos - the Nazi mobile killing units , Schiffer Pub., 1999, p. 55.
  3. ↑ cf. Jens Banach: Heydrichs Elite , F. Schöningh, 1998, p. 250.
  4. ↑ Helmut Krausnick , Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: Die Truppe des Weltanschauungskrieges , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1981, p. 290.
personal data
SURNAME Finnberg, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finnberg, Albert Heinrich Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2005
Place of death Hamburg