Erich Kaul

Paul Erich Kaul (born December 20, 1899 in Tilsit , † September 9, 1971 in Berlin ) was a German politician and SA leader.

Live and act

Youth, World War I and Post War

Kaul was the son of the master shoemaker Franz Kaul (* December 30, 1875 - November 18, 1914) and Auguste Jonescheit (* December 28, 1876 - October 31, 1950).

After attending the community school, Kaul completed a commercial loan with a grain wholesale company. In addition, he was taught at a commercial training school. From 1917 he took part in the First World War: On June 14, 1917, he came to the Field Artillery Regiment 52, before moving to the Field Artillery Regiment 266 on July 28, 1918. In the late phase of the war he was used as a gun leader. On September 17, 1918, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class . Later (December 10, 1934) he received the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters .

Following his discharge from the army by the Tilsit district command on June 15, 1919, Kaul joined a volunteer corps , with which he participated in the border guard until June 30, 1920.

Weimar Republic

In the early 1920s, Kaul began to get involved in circles of the extreme political right: He worked for a time in the Völkischer Frontkampfbund, before he joined the Tilsit section of the Frontbann military association in 1924 . When the Tilsiter Frontbann was transferred to the National Socialist Sturmabteilung (SA), the task force of the Nazi movement, in 1925 , Kaul automatically became a member of the SA. In contrast, he did not join the NSDAP ( membership number 153.802) until October 1, 1929.

After working for the SA in Tilsit from 1925 to 1927, Kaul moved to Berlin, where he was a simple SA man until 1929. From 1929 to 1931 he was then active as a squad leader or troop leader in SA-Sturm 33 (Charlottenburg) before, after a short interlude from February 20 to April 2, 1931, as a storm leader in SA-Sturm 30 on April 2, 1931 was brought to the staff of the Berlin Gausturm: In this period Kaul took on a number of higher administrative tasks: from June 1, 1931 to October 1, 1931 he was the Gausturmgeldverwalter, then - after the reorganization of the Berlin SA - from October 1, 1931 until January 1, 1932 sub-group money administrator and finally from January 1 to July 1, 1932 group money administrator of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg .

During the ban on the SA issued by the Brüning government in 1932, Kaul took part in the founding of the German People's Sports Club, which served as a cover organization for the banned SA.

In the summer and autumn of 1932 Kaul was then active in Department IV of the Berlin SA group (July 1 to October 7, 1932) and head of the group leader school of the Berlin-Brandenburg SA in Harnekop (October 7 to October 1, 1932). November 1932).

In 1932, Kaul ran twice as a member of the Reichstag without success. In the elections of July 1932, the NSDAP put him up as a candidate for constituency 2 (Berlin) and in the elections of November 1932 as a candidate for constituency 3 (Potsdam II).

Nazi era

On November 1, 1932, Kaul was commissioned as the successor to Eberhard von Wechmar with the management of the SA subgroup Brandenburg-Ost. After he was appointed official leader of the subgroup on April 1, 1933, he held this position for almost ten and a half months, until the subgroup was converted into SA Brigade 26 on September 14, 1933, which he commanded until May 1935 .

From May 15, 1935 to June 20, 1936 Kaul was entrusted with the command of Brigade 30 (Berlin West). Then it was assigned to the Berlin-Brandenburg group from June 20, 1936 to March 14, 1938 for use. Since March 15, 1938 he was finally the 29th Brigade as SA leader z. b. V. assigned.

On December 22, 1936, Adolf Hitler appointed Kaul an honorary member of the People's Court for a period of five years.

From 1940 Kaul took part in the Second World War, in which he was successively promoted to captain (December 1, 1941) and major (December 1, 1943).

family

Kaul's first marriage was divorced on June 17, 1936. From this marriage a son, Olaf (* 1931) was born. His second marriage to Anneliese Haegert (* August 8, 1909) followed on October 10, 1936. The marriage resulted in four daughters, Dietlinde (* 1937), Edelgard (* 1939), Heiderose (* 1941) and Erika (* 1943) emerged.

estate

Personnel files on Kaul have been preserved in the Federal Archives. In particular, the inventory of the former Berlin Document Center contains a PK file and an SA personnel file.

Promotions

• October 1, 1929: SA-Gruppenführer (at that time equivalent to an SA-Scharführer)
• August 15, 1930: SA troop leader
• February 1, 1931: SA Sturmführer
• June 1, 1931: Gausturm money administrator
• October 1, 1931: sub-group money administrator
• September 9, 1932 SA group money administrator
• October 25, 1932: SA Standartenführer
• April 1, 1933: SA Oberführer

literature

• Hansjoachim W. Koch: People's Court. Political Justice in the Third Reich , Munich 1988.