Erik von Heimburg
Erik Paul Anno von Heimburg (born October 6, 1892 in Karlsruhe , † May 14, 1946 near Minsk , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic ) was a German SS brigade leader and major general of the police.
origin
Erik was the son of the later Prussian Major General Paul von Heimburg (1851-1936) and his wife Cornelia, née Schädtler (1861-1938). His brother Heino (1889-1945) became a German vice admiral .
Life
From 1904 to 1911 he attended the cadet institutions in Plön and Köslin and passed the Abitur at the main cadet institution in Groß-Lichterfelde. From 1914 he took an active part in the First World War, from which he returned seriously injured. After the end of the war, he joined the police force in Hamburg in 1919 and was promoted to colonel by 1937 . On May 1, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 4.230.308). In 1938 at the latest, he became the commander of the police in Essen .
From 1939 he worked again in Hamburg and joined the SS in 1939 (SS no. 337.729). After the beginning of the Second World War on September 1, 1939, he was appointed commander of the police in Stettin . In December 1941 he moved to Kharkov as commander of the police order and later to Minsk in the general district of Belarus . In 1942 he was promoted to SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police. From July 1942 to September 1943 he was commander of the protective police in Hamburg. From October 1943 to August 1944, Erik von Heimburg was in command of the police in Copenhagen . From October 1944 to the beginning of May 1945 he served as commander of the police in Berlin .
After the occupation of Berlin by Soviet troops, he was arrested on May 5, 1945 and taken to the Soviet Union , where he was sentenced to death by shooting by a Soviet military court on March 8, 1946 for alleged war crimes . A pardon was rejected on May 14, 1946 and the sentence was then carried out in Belarus.
family
Erik von Heimburg had been Lutteroth, born on December 4th 1929 with Gesa, daughter of Dr. jur. Alexander Lutteroth from Hamburg , married.
literature
- Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 3: Lammerding-Plesch. Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 .
- Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 238.
- Heino von Heimburg . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Second volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1898, p. 72 ( dlib.rsl.ru - date of birth here: October 23, 1889).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael Buddrus (Ed.): Mecklenburg in the Second World War. The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the Nazi governing bodies of the Mecklenburg Gau 1939–1945 - An edition of the meeting minutes , Edition Temmen, Bremen 2009, p. 1022 f.
- ↑ Numery członków SS od 337 000 do 337 999
- ↑ Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 238.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heimburg, Erik von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heimburg, Erik Paul Anno von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1946 |
| Place of death | near Minsk Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |