Erich Naumann

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Erich Naumann during the task force process

Erich Naumann (born April 29, 1905 in Meißen ; † June 7, 1951 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police, SD Upper Section Leader, from November 1941 to March 1943 chief of Einsatzgruppe B , which was responsible for the Mass murder in the area of Army Group Center was responsible.

Life

After attending the middle school in Meißen, Naumann began a commercial apprenticeship in 1921. He then worked as a commercial clerk and left the company in October 1933 as an authorized signatory.

Since the beginning of November 1929 he was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 170.257). At the beginning of February 1930 he joined the SA and worked full-time for them from mid-November 1933 in Dresden : first as leader of the SA university office and from August 1934 as university liaison officer for the head of the SA training system. In the SA he rose to SA Obersturmbannführer.

One year after the so-called “ Röhm Putsch ”, at the beginning of July 1935, he switched from the SA to the SS (SS no. 107,496) and immediately became a full-time SS leader. At the same time, the work in the SD began . Naumann became head of department in the Official III of the SD-principal office at Heinz Jost and has held this position until the summer of 1936. He then led to the end of September 1937 SD subsection francs with his office Nuremberg, then by the end of September 1938 the SD Oberabschnitt North in Szczecin and in personal union after the annexation of Austria from March 1938 the SD upper section Austria in Vienna and finally the SD upper section or from September 1939 SD leading section east in Berlin .

Second World War

Erich Naumann (far right) during Heinrich Himmler's visit to The Hague on January 31, 1944

During the attack on Poland , Naumann took over the leadership of Einsatzgruppe VI as part of the “ Operation Groups of the Security Police ” called “ Operation Tannenberg ” to “fight all anti-Reich and anti-German elements behind the fencing force” and at the same time to destroy the Polish as much as possible Intelligence . Task Force VI. consisted of the two task forces:

From November 1939 to the beginning of September 1943 Naumann was inspector of the Security Police and the SD (IdS) in Berlin and was represented in this function from January 1941 to April 1943 during his absence due to the war . First he took part in the western campaign with the SS Totenkopf Division .

After the attack on the Soviet Union , Naumann was an SS leader on the staff of Einsatzgruppe B from summer 1941 and in November 1941 he became the commander of "Einsatzgruppe B" as the successor to Arthur Nebe . Task Force B murdered in the middle section of the front ( Belarus ). In March 1942 alone, over 3,500 people were killed in the mass executions of Jews and Gypsies . In December 1942, Naumann reported a total of 134,298 murder victims to Berlin ; a month earlier he had been promoted to SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police.

From March 1943 to the beginning of September 1943 he was inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Military District II (Stettin) . From September 1943 and May 1944, Naumann was the commander of the Security Police and SD in the occupied Netherlands and political advisor to the Reich Commissioner there . Then he was inspector of the security police and the SD in military district XIII (Nuremberg) until the end of the war .

Post War and Trial

After the war he came, giving a false name for a short time in Allied captivity . After his release he worked as a farm worker and was arrested and interrogated in April 1947. He was then indicted in the Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen Trial and sentenced to death by hanging on April 10, 1948 . On January 9, 1951, a delegation from the German Bundestag , including its President Hermann Ehlers (CDU) and international lawyer Carlo Schmid (SPD), asked the American High Commissioner John McCloy for mercy for him and his accomplices . "The rest of the Landsbergers may also be released, as their punishment would put a heavy burden on the rearmament problem."

On June 7, 1951, Naumann was executed in Landsberg together with the accomplices in the mass murder Oswald Pohl , Otto Ohlendorf , Paul Blobel and Werner Braune .

Fifty years after the execution, shortly before June 7, 2001, the Landsberg prison management had the grave crosses in the Spötting cemetery overhauled, provided with a copper roof and provided a uniform flower arrangement.

In 2003, after protests from the population, the cemetery was deedicated and the name tags were removed from the grave crosses.

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SURNAME Naumann, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist and head of Einsatzgruppe B, Head of Office III SD Main Office, mass murderer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1951
Place of death Landsberg correctional facility