Erich Jacob
Erich Jacob , also Jakob (born December 22, 1907 in Königs Wusterhausen , † June 5, 1974 in Braunschweig ) was a German police officer at the time of National Socialism .
Live and act
After attending school, which he finished in 1926 with the final examination , Jacob - who was unable to study engineering, which he actually favored for financial reasons - attended the Treptow Police School as a police candidate from 1927. In the same year he was appointed police sergeant and in 1928 was transferred to the Schneidemühl riot police .
In 1934 Jacob passed a police trainee course at the Charlottenburg Police Institute , which he completed at his own request, with the grade “good”. He was then appointed head of a department at the Berlin Murder Inspectorate and on March 15, 1935, detective inspector. In the autumn of 1935 Jacob was appointed head of the abortion department of the Berlin police.
In October 1936 Jacob was appointed to the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion , which was founded in that year and which arose as part of the newly established Reich Criminal Police Office. In this institution, whose management was initially entrusted to Josef Meisinger and which was organizationally housed as Section II 2 S in the Secret State Police Office , Jacob took over the management of Section II 2 S (combating abortion on an imperial scale). Even before the establishment of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), Jacob was appointed as Kriminalrat successor to Meisinger as head of the Reich Central, which is now housed in Office V of the RSHA. In this capacity he was responsible for the Reich-wide coordination of the Nazi state's police measures against homosexuality and abortion in the following years . As a deputy to Gerhard Nauck , Jacob was also the deputy head of the Reich Central Office for Combating Moral Offenses from November 1940.
He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1940 and had previously joined the SS in 1938 , where he was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1942 .
In July 1943 the Reichszentrale was reorganized: Jacob remained its forensic director, with the psychiatrist Carl-Heinz Rodenberg , a scientific director who took over some of his powers.
After the end of World War II Jacob was from October 1945 to January 1946 in the Allied internment. After his release, he did odd jobs and eventually settled in Braunschweig as a detective. Because of his activities in the RSHA, investigations against him were started in 1964, but were discontinued due to a lack of incriminating knowledge. He died on June 5, 1974 in Braunschweig.
literature
- Günter Grau , Rüdiger Lautmann : Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945 : Institutions-Competencies-Areas of Activity, in: History (Münster in Westphalia, Germany), Vol. 21., Lit, Berlin, p. 167.
- Burkhard Jellonnek: homosexuals under the swastika. The persecution of homosexuals in the Third Reich . Schöningh, Paderborn 1990.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to: Günter Grau: Lexicon on homosexual persecution 1933–1945. Institutions - People - Areas of Activity , Berlin 2011, p. 165
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 283
- ^ Günter Grau: Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945. Institutions - People - Areas of Activity , Berlin 2011, p. 165
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacob, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jakob, Erich (alternative spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German police officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | King Wusterhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th June 1974 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |