Johann-Erasmus of Malsen-Ponickau

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Johann-Erasmus Georg Adalbert Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau (born June 5, 1895 in Munich ; † June 12, 1956 there ) was a German SS brigade leader and police officer at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Malsen-Polnickau was the son of Baron Theobald von Malsen-Ponickau (born June 26, 1867 in Bayreuth , † October 20, 1930 in Osterberg near Kellmünz ) and his wife Olga, née Freiin von Ponickau. His father was later a Bavarian chamberlain and colonel . He still had three siblings.

In 1909 he moved from grammar school to the Prussian cadet institute in Karlsruhe and from there to the main cadet institute in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin . He took part in the First World War from September 1914 , was last Rittmeister and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross .

After the war he joined the Epp Freikorps from April to June 1919 . He then completed a degree in agriculture. From 1922 Malsen-Ponickau managed the Osterberg family estate in Swabia, which he inherited from his mother in 1922. He was a member of the Corps Rheno-Palatia Munich . Until the incompatibility decree 78/38 of the deputy of the Führer Rudolf Hess of July 2, 1938, after the simultaneous membership of the Order of St. John and the NSDAP was forbidden, he was Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John .

Malsen-Ponickau joined the NSDAP in March 1930 ( membership number 213,542) and worked as a local group leader in Niederraunau . He joined the SS (SS-No.3,914) in November 1930. He was responsible for the administration and soon afterwards with the management of the 29th SS Standard (Swabia). From the summer of 1932, Malsen-Ponickau led SS Section I in Munich.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he headed the entire Munich auxiliary police from March 20, 1933. On April 10, 1933, Malsen-Ponickau gave a speech to SS auxiliary police officers in the Dachau concentration camp , in which he noted, among other things: "If there is one of you who thinks it is people like you, he should immediately step out to the left." From April 20, 1933 to August 15, 1933, he led SS Section IX (Nuremberg) and was acting police chief in Nuremberg-Fürth. After a conflict with Gauleiter Julius Streicher , in which Streicher accused Malsen-Ponickau of belonging to the "movement" formally, but not "with the heart", he was dismissed from this post, but promoted to SS Brigadführer by Heinrich Himmler . Then he was transferred to the staff of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler. From mid-January 1934 he led SS Section IX (Stuttgart). As the only high SS leader, he was no longer promoted. He ran for the German Reichstag on March 29, 1936, but received no mandate. At that time he lived in Stuttgart , Eduard-Pfeiffer-Strasse 65.

In September 1936 he became police director in Zwickau . In April 1938 he was initially acting police director in Frankfurt (Oder) and officially held this post from March 1939. Later he was police director in Poznan and was appointed police chief there in June 1940. In September 1943 he was transferred to Halle (Saale) as chief of police .

From the beginning of 1944, Malsen-Ponickau was Himmler's special representative at the Higher SS and Police Leader of the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone, Odilo Globocnik . There he was SS and police commander in Trieste until autumn 1944 and from the beginning of 1945 in Pola .

After the end of the war he was acquitted in Poland on May 28, 1946 for his work as police chief of Poznan, but sentenced to seven years imprisonment for his membership in the SS as a criminal organization . After his release from prison, Malsen-Ponickau returned to Munich, where he died.

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  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 388.
  2. ↑ Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 517.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Nuremberg. The Benno Martin case. Nuremberg 1974. p. 309.
  4. ↑ Stephan Malinowski: From the king to the leader. Social decline and political radicalization in the German nobility between the German Empire and the Nazi state. 3rd revised edition. Academy Publishing House. Berlin 2003. p. 541.
  5. ↑ Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online : Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945.
  6. ^ Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria, Volume 7, 1961, p. 249
  7. ↑ Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007. p. 388.
  8. ↑ Quoted in: Stephan Malinowski: From the king to the leader, German nobility and National Socialism. 3. Edition. Frankfurt 2010. p. 541.
  9. ^ Elisabeth Chowaniec: The "Case Dohnanyi" 1943–1945. Resistance, military justice, SS arbitrariness. Oldenbourg Publishing House. Munich 1991. ISBN 3-486-64562-5 . P. 554.
  10. ^ Michael Wedekind: National Socialist Occupation and Annexation Policy in Northern Italy 1943 to 1945. (= Military History Studies. Volume 38), R. Oldenbourg Verlag. Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56650-4 . P. 446.
personal data
SURNAME Malsen-Ponickau, Johann-Erasmus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malsen-Ponickau, Johann Erasmus Georg Adalbert Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and police officer at the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1956
Place of death Munich