Ernst Sachs (General)

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Ernst Sachs (born December 24, 1880 in Berlin , † August 23, 1956 in Bad Wildbad ) was a German SS leader and officer , most recently SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS in World War II .

Life

Military career

After attending school, he joined the Prussian army and on March 10, 1900, he became a flag junior . After receiving his officer's license on August 19, 1901, Sachs joined the No. 1 Railway Regiment as a lieutenant . On January 27, 1910, he was promoted to first lieutenant . Between 1912 and October 1913 he was adjutant in Telegraph Battalion No. 1 and then until August 1914 company commander of the 5th Company of Telegraph Battalion No. 6.

During the First World War he was from August 1914 to February 1915 first commander of the telephone department 20 and then until February 1916 successively army radio commander at Army High Command 10 , 11 and adjutant with the staff officer of the telegraphy troops at Army High Command 11. This was followed by a position in between February 1916 and June 1917 as 2nd adjutant to the chief of field telegraphy in the main headquarters of the Supreme Army Command and then as head of the communications department in the War Ministry .

After the First World War he was accepted into the Reichswehr and on January 1, 1921, he was chief of the 2nd company of the 5th communications department in Stuttgart . In October 1921 he moved to the staff and from May 1922 he was active as a staff officer for communications in the Wehrkommando V and in the 5th division . On December 1, 1926, he became the commander of the 1st (Prussian) news department in Königsberg . In this role, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 1, 1928 , and on April 1, 1929, he was transferred to the staff of Group Command 2 in Kassel as an intelligence officer . As a lieutenant colonel on November 1, 1930, he was commander of the intelligence courses D of the Artillery School Altes Lager Jüterbog and in this role was promoted to colonel on April 1, 1931 and then to major general on December 1, 1933 .

On October 1, 1934, he was appointed commander of the Army and Air Force Intelligence School in Halle . Two years later, Sachs resigned under presentation of the character as a lieutenant general from the military service.

Activity in the Waffen SS

On November 1, 1936, Sachs became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 278.781) and on November 9, 1936 received the rank of SS brigade leader . At the beginning of May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 4.167.008). By Heinrich Himmler he was appointed as inspector of the news service in the SS Reichsfuhrer of the message connection being the SS in charge and chief of police with the structure and the line. In this connection he took part in the first quarter of 1938 at the World News Conference in Cairo and in the first quarter of 1939 at the World Radio Conference in Montreux . On June 1, 1939, he was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer .

On May 15, 1940, he was appointed President of the DASD ( German Amateur Broadcasting and Reception Service ) by the Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels .

From autumn 1940 Sachs was chief of telecommunications at the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS . On June 21, 1943 he was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS. Sachs' successor, who left office at the beginning of August 1944, probably due to illness, was Wilhelm Keilhaus . From the beginning of August 1944, Sachs was still active on the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS as an advisor for communications. In February 1945 he was working on the expansion of the telecommunications system at Ohrdruf .

post war period

One day before the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Sachs and members of the 38th SS Grenadier Division “Nibelungen” were taken prisoner by the Americans near Reit im Winkl , and they remained there for almost two years. In April 1947 he was considered an internee and at the end of July 1948 he was denazified as "incriminated" (group II) . According to his own statements, he had visited a concentration camp in 1937 and had knowledge of the forced labor of concentration camp prisoners. As part of this process, he was sentenced to 30 months in a labor camp, five years of occupational restrictions and 30% confiscation of property. Although this judgment was revised on August 3, 1948, Sachs remained interned for the time being.

Military awards

Awards in the Nazi state

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Stumpf : The Wehrmacht Elite - Structure of Rank and Origin of German Generals and Admirals 1933–1945. Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1982, ISBN 3-7646-1815-9 . (= Defense Scientific Research , Vol. 29), p. 43
  2. ↑ a b c Jutta Mühlenberg: The SS helper corps. Training, deployment and denazification of the female members of the Waffen-SS 1942–1949 , Hamburg 2011, p. 436
  3. ↑ Chronicle of amateur radio in Germany .
  4. ↑ QSLs tell German amateur radio history (PDF; 3.5 MB).
  5. ↑ Reinhard Stumpf: The Wehrmacht Elite - Structure of Rank and Origin of German Generals and Admirals 1933–1945. Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1982, ISBN 3-7646-1815-9 . (= Defense Scientific Research , Vol. 29), p. 44
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ranking list of the German Imperial Army . Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn. Berlin 1930. p. 115.
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1956
Place of death Bad Wildbad