Franz Summer

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Franz Sommer (born November 30, 1897 in Düsseldorf ; † March 3, 1980 ibid) was a German Gestapo officer , SS leader and head of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe VI in Poland .

Life

After attending school, Sommer took part in the First World War as a war volunteer from 1914 . After the end of the war he joined the police force in Düsseldorf in 1919 as a police candidate. Sommer rose to the position of detective inspector in 1926. From 1931 he headed the political police in Oberhausen .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he headed the Political Police in Düsseldorf from April 15, 1933. From April 1, 1934, he worked for the Gestapo in Düsseldorf, where he was promoted to the criminal inspector in early October 1934. From October 1934 to July 1939, Sommer was head of the state police station in Düsseldorf .

Sommer joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2.266.842) and SS (SS number 272.578). In the SS, Sommer was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in November 1940 .

After the beginning of World War II , Sommer was the leader of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe VI, which murdered Polish intellectuals and Jews.

From November 1940, Sommer was head of the criminal police control center in Cologne for many years. Because of a lung disease, Sommer was given a leave of absence to go to Davos . There he organized documents under a false name and only moved back to the Federal Republic of Germany several years later. Sommer lived incognito in Düsseldorf until his death in 1980. Investigations against summer were not started because he was not registered in Düsseldorf.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Düsseldorf registry office No. 1452/1980.
  2. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 40
  3. ↑ Memorial book for the Nazi victims from Wuppertal
  4. ↑ Franz Sommer on www.dws-xip.pl
  5. ^ Israel Gutman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust - The persecution and murder of European Jews , Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1998, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 , Vol. 1, p. 395; Vol. 2, p. 393
  6. ↑ Task Force in Poland
  7. ↑ Jürgen Müller: Exclusion of homosexuals from the "Volksgemeinschaft": the persecution of homosexuals in Cologne 1933–1945 . Emons, Cologne 2003, p. 114
  8. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 104
  9. ↑ Memorial book for the Nazi victims from Wuppertal - persecution of the perpetrators
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Gestapo employee, SS leader and head of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe VI in Poland
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1980
Place of death Dusseldorf