Friedemann Goetze

Friedemann Goetze (born February 26, 1871 in Stade ; † May 22, 1946 ) was a German officer, most recently in the rank of SS brigade leader .

Life

Goetze was the son of a city counsel and later district administrator. After finishing school he embarked on a military career and began his military service in an infantry regiment of the Prussian Army in 1890 . He was a major in the infantry participant in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross First Class. After the end of the war he took part in the fighting in the Baltic States in 1919 as a member of the German Legion . This was followed by his takeover in the 18th Infantry Regiment (Paderborn) of the Reichswehr . As a colonel, he was released from the Reichswehr in 1924. Then he worked for the now illegal NSDAP as a local group leader in Bückeburg . He left the party in 1926 and was from 1926 to 1933 first regional and then district leader of the Tannenbergbund . Goetze was finally withdrawn from the influential organizer of the Tannenbergbund, Erich Ludendorff , because after the seizure of power he "agreed with the measures of the National Socialist government" and was suspected of being a Nazi informant. In addition, Ludendorff prohibited Goetze, who was then based in Hanover , from continuing to run the Ludendorff bookstore under this name.

At the time of National Socialism he became a member of the SS in mid-December 1934 (SS No. 261,405). He was assigned to the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS. At the beginning of February 1935 he was promoted to Obersturmbannführer and prepared for a job as a tactics teacher at the SS Junker School in Braunschweig . After teaching, he became head of this SS Junk School in early 1937 and held this position until he retired in autumn 1938. He was re-admitted to the NSDAP in 1937 (membership number 5.220.132). The Gauleiter Bernhard Rust rejected Goetze's request to get a lower party number in February 1938 and even questioned party membership in general, since Goetze was a Tannenbergbündler during the Weimar Republic . Goetze was promoted to SS brigade leader in early July 1938, the highest SS rank he had achieved. He was an honorary judge at the People's Court .

During the Second World War he was reactivated: from the beginning of October 1939 to the end of March 1942, he was in charge of the collection point for losses of the Schutzstaffel in the SS personnel main office .

His son was the SS-Standartenführer Hans-Friedemann Goetze (1897-1940).

literature

Bernhard Kiekenap : SS Junker School. SA and SS in Braunschweig. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937664-94-1 .
Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period (partly also: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009). Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 196.
^ Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period. Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , p. 657.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Jens Westemeier: Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period. Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , pp. 54f.
↑ Klaus Mlynek : Gestapo Hanover reports… Police and government reports for central and southern Lower Saxony between 1933 and 1937. Volume 39, part 1. Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1986, p. 131.
↑ ^a ^b Peter Witte among others: Heinrich Himmler's 1941/42 service calendar. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-7672-1329-X , p. 683.
↑ Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 198.
^ Rüdiger Overmans : German military losses in World War II. 3. Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56531-1 , p. 330.
↑ Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 198 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Goetze, Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer and SS brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stade
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1946

[Boehnert196-1] Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 196.

[2] Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period. Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , p. 657.

[Westemeier54f-3] Jens Westemeier: Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period. Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , pp. 54f.

[4] Klaus Mlynek : Gestapo Hanover reports… Police and government reports for central and southern Lower Saxony between 1933 and 1937. Volume 39, part 1. Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1986, p. 131.

[Dienstkalender683-5] Peter Witte among others: Heinrich Himmler's 1941/42 service calendar. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-7672-1329-X , p. 683.

[6] Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 198.

[7] Rüdiger Overmans : German military losses in World War II. 3. Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56531-1 , p. 330.

[8] Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 198 f.