Emil Mazuw

Emil Mazuw

Emil Gottlieb Mazuw , formerly Emil Gottlieb Maschuw (born September 21, 1900 in Essen , † December 11, 1987 in Karlsruhe ) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS (1944) and the police (1942), politician and senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Baltic Sea.

Life

Mazuw, the son of a factory worker, completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1915 to March 1918 after attending elementary school. He took part in the First World War as a war volunteer in the Navy from April 1918 . At the end of the war, Mazuw was interned in Great Britain; After the Imperial High Seas Fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow on June 21, 1919, he was a prisoner of war until March 1920 . Until June 1921 a member of the Reichsmarine , he worked as a locksmith and mechanical engineer until 1925. After that he was unemployed until 1932 and then worked as a driver in Coburg , where Franz Schwede , who later became Gau leader of the Pomeranian Gau, had been 1st Mayor since 1931 . Mazuw married in 1932; the marriage had three children.

Mazuw joined the NSDAP ( membership number 85.231) and the SA in 1928 and switched from there to the SS in 1930 (SS number 2.556). From November 1930 to February 1932 Mazuw led SS-Sturm 63 “Coburg”; from September 1932 to November 1933 the SS Standard 41 "Upper Franconia". In the final phase of the Weimar Republic he was fined twice: in April 1931 by the Coburg District Court for damage to property that was harmful to the general public at RM 20 and in October 1932 for negligent bodily harm to RM 100. In 1930 Mazuw is said to have broken a bone in clashes with political opponents during the election campaign.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Mazuw became a full-time SS leader at the end of January 1933. In March 1933, the city of Coburg put Emil Mazuw in charge of the city's emergency police, which consisted of 55 SS members. As part of the persecution of political opponents and Jews, he conducted the interrogations in the regimental room of the town hall , during which the prisoners were sometimes mistreated until they were unconscious.

From November 1933 to the beginning of September 1934 Mazuw was the leader of SS-Section XXVIII in Regensburg . In November 1933, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria , who has lived in Coburg since his abdication in 1918, gave Mazuw "a Mercedes car at his free disposal [...] to make it easier for him to travel around his extensive area of ​​activity."

After Franz Schwede was appointed Gauleiter of the Gau Pomerania by Adolf Hitler in July 1934 , Mazuw went with him to Pomerania. In September 1934 Mazuw became leader of SS Section XIII in Stettin . In April 1936 he took over the SS Upper Section North and from August 1938 to the beginning of May 1945 he was HSSPF "Ostsee" based in Stettin; Here Emil Mazuw worked as SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police as judge of the SS and Police Court XXIV Stettin. From March 29, 1936 Mazuw belonged to the National Socialist Reichstag for the constituency 6 Pomerania.

After the German invasion of Poland , Mazuw was commissioned by Himmler to “clear” sanatoriums and nursing homes in Pomerania. On the initiative of the Pomeranian Gauleiter Franz Schwede, the patients were to be brought to neighboring Polish areas. In the autumn of 1939 about 1,400 patients from Pomerania were shot there by the SS; another 1,000 were murdered in gas vans in the spring of 1940 . From the beginning of 1939 to September 1941, the number of beds in the provincial sanatoriums and nursing homes fell from 7,600 to 2,800. Some of the facilities that had become vacant were used by the SS. In April 1940 Mazuw was appointed governor of the Pomeranian Province.

In his function as SS-Obergruppenführer he took part in the Gruppenführer conference on October 4, 1943 in Poznan, at which Heinrich Himmler gave the first Poznan speech .

On May 9, 1945, Mazuw was interned for membership of the SS and sentenced to eight years imprisonment as part of denazification on April 6, 1948, following a ruling chamber procedure of the Benefeld-Bomlitz ruling court , which was responsible for the Fallingbostel camp in the British zone . On January 29, 1951, his trial began at the Coburg Regional Court . Together with Franz Schwede and ten other former members of the SS, he was charged with the events of March 1933. On April 7, 1951, Emil Mazuw, who pleaded “essentially guilty”, was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for 62 bodily harm while in office, with two attempts at coercion in office. The time served from the verdict of the verdict was taken into account. On December 19, 1951, following several appeals for clemency based on a decree of the Bavarian State Minister of Justice of December 4, 1951, the early release from prison followed, which normally would have lasted until November 25, 1953.

Mazuw later worked as an employee. He died in December 1987 in Karlsruhe.

Quote

“ Special treatment was synonymous with 'liquidating'. Neither did I need to give my subordinates any explanation about this concept in Neu-Sandez. He was well known [...]. "

Awards

Mazuw's SS and police ranks

date	rank
June 1930	Squad leader
November 1930	SS Sturmführer
February 1932	SS-Sturmhauptführer
April 1932	SS-Sturmbannführer
January 1933	SS standard leader
March 1934	SS-Oberführer
January 1936	SS Brigade Leader
September 1936	SS group leader
June 1940	SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
April 1941	SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
April 1942	SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police
July 1944	General of the Waffen SS

• German equestrian badge in bronze
• Golden party badge of the NSDAP
• Iron Cross (1939) 2nd class
• War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class with swords
• SS service award
• Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
• SS skull ring

See also

• List of generals of the Waffen SS

literature

• Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).
• Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .
• 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

• Emil Mazuw in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Emil Mazuw in the database of the Reichstag deputies
   Ruth Bettina Birn: Die Höheren SS- und Polizeifführer. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. , Düsseldorf 1986, p. 340.
2. ^ Lilla, extras , p. 407.
3. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police: The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials in the general rank. (1933-1945). Volume 3, Bissendorf: Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 , p. 150.
4. ^ Joachim Albrecht: The avant-garde of the Third Reich - The Coburg NSDAP during the Weimar Republic 1922-1933 . Peter Lang GmbH European Publishing House of Science, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-53751-4 , p. 185.
5. ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 117.
6. ↑ Coburger Zeitung of November 24, 1933, quoted in Schulz, Generale , p. 151.
7. ↑ Kyran T. Inachin: The Pomeranian Gau - a Prussian province as a Nazi Gau. In: The NS-Gaue: regional middle instances in the centralized “Führerstaat” , series of quarterly issues for contemporary history: special issue , ed. Jürgen John, Horst Möller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-486-58086-8 , p 280.
8. ^ BArch: The judge of the SS and Police Court XXIV Stettin - Dismissal order in criminal proceedings against SS-Sturmbannführer and Kriminalrat Dr. Kurt Riedel, signed E. Mazuw, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police - v. March 14, 1944; Receipt as a certified copy at the SS-Personalhauptamt, Tgb. Nr. 928/44 go. April 26, 1944
9. ↑ Heike Bernhardt: "Euthanasia" and the beginning of the war. The early murders of Pomeranian patients. In: ZfG , 44 (1996), issue 9, pp. 773-788, here pp. 773 ff.
10. ^ Province of Pomerania at territorial.de.
11. ^ Romuald Karmakar , The Himmler Project , DVD 2000, Berlin, ISBN 3-89848-719-9 .
12. ↑ Carl-Christian Dressel : Notes on the judiciary in Coburg from the establishment of the Coburg Regional Court to the denazification. In: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 19977 , Coburg 1997, ISSN  0084-8808 , p. 74.
13. ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 205.
14. ↑ Neue Presse, May 8, 2013.
15. ↑ Carl-Christian Dressel: Notes on the judiciary in Coburg from the establishment of the Coburg Regional Court to the denazification. In: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 19977 , Coburg 1997, ISSN  0084-8808 , p. 75.
16. ^ Stefan Nöth: Anti-Semitism . In: ahead at the wrong time. Coburg and the rise of National Socialism in Germany. Coburg 2004, ISBN 3-9808006-3-6 , p. 82.
17. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 398.
18. ^ SS-Obergruppenführer Emil Mazuw during an interrogation Quoted in: Holocaust Reference .
19. ^ Lilla, extras , p. 407.
20. ↑ This rank was Sturmhauptführer in the SS until the SA was ousted in the summer of 1934 and was then renamed Hauptsturmführer . A renaming in the SA was made with the formation of the SA military teams in 1939/40, so that this rank in all Nazi organizations was Hauptsturmführer .