Friedrich Suhr
Friedrich Suhr (born May 6, 1907 in Lüneburg ; † May 31, 1946 ( suicide ) in the Wuppertal-Elberfeld prison ) was a German lawyer who rose to become SS-Obersturmbannführer and government councilor at the time of National Socialism . Suhr was Head of Division II A 3 (judicial matters, claims for damages) as well as an employee in Eichmann Division IV B 4 of the Reich Security Main Office , leader of Sonderkommando 4b and Einsatzkommando 6 of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in Russia, Commander of the Security Police and the SD in France.
Life
Suhr studied law in Göttingen and Freiburg and received his doctorate for Dr. jur.
After joining the SS (membership number 65.824) on February 1, 1933, Suhr joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2.623.241).
As a lawyer, he headed Section II A 3 (judicial matters, claims for damages) in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) from March 1940 as the successor to SS-Sturmbannführer Paul Mylius . In his curriculum vitae of July 19, 1940, he stated that after Werner Best's departure from the RSHA, he had been delegated "to represent Office Chief II" at the end of May 1940.
From July 1941 to the autumn of 1942, Suhr was head of department in Adolf Eichmann's Section IV B 4 (Jewish matters, eviction matters). In this capacity he also took part in a meeting in the Ostministerium ( Amt Rosenberg ) on January 29, 1942 on the "Draft Ordinance on the Definition of the Term 'Jew' in the Occupied Eastern Territories". The meeting took place immediately after the " Wannsee Conference " on January 20, 1942 and ended with the decision that a Jew should be considered to be someone who belongs to the Jewish religion or who has at least one parent who belongs to the Jewish religion. The slightest evidence should be sufficient for Jewish religion. The category of “ half-breeds ” should be eliminated in the eastern regions at the suggestion of Erhard Wetzel , Jewish advisor at the East Ministry .
In October 1942 Suhr was a participant in one of the follow-up conferences of the Wannsee Conference on the “ Final Solution to the Jewish Question ” at the RSHA. Finding himself unable to feel, according to his wife Gretel Suhr to continue working for Eichmann, he was sent in November 1942 as a punishment to the Russian front, where he lead the Sonderkommando 4b of (SK) Einsatzgruppe C took over. He headed this unit until August 5, 1943 and one day later took over the Einsatzkommando (EK) 6 until November 1943. Subsequently, Suhr was appointed commander of the Security Police and SD (BdS) in Toulouse and was ordered until December 11, 1944 Commander of a combat group at the BdS and Higher SS and Police Leader in the area of the Military Commander West. Finally, until the end of the war, he was employed as SS and police leader "Upper Alsace".
Suhr committed suicide on May 31, 1946 in the Bendahl prison in Wuppertal - Elberfeld .
Awards and honors
Suhr's SS ranks | |
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date | rank |
November 9, 1938 | SS-Hauptsturmführer |
September 10, 1939 | SS-Sturmbannführer |
April 20, 1944 | SS-Obersturmbannführer |
- Medal in memory of October 1, 1938 with Prague Castle clasp
- German Reich Sports Badge in bronze
- SA sports badge in bronze
- SS civil badge (No. 36.786)
- Ehrenwinkel the old fighters
- Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
- SS ring of honor
- German cross in gold
- Gang fight badge
- War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd class with swords on January 30, 1943
- War Merit Cross (1939) 1st class with swords
- Iron Cross (1939) 2nd class on May 20, 1943
- Wound Badge (1939) in black on May 31, 1943
- Iron Cross (1939) 1st Class on December 16, 1943
- Close combat clasp 1st level (bronze) on April 25, 1944
- Infantry assault badge in bronze on April 25, 1944
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of a combat group with the commander of the Security Police and the SD in France and higher SS and police leader in the area of the military commander in France / Commander-in-Chief West on December 11, 1944
literature
- Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsges. mbH, 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Frankfurt am Main, June 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Biography of Friedrich Surh ( Memento from June 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Friedrich Suhr at www.das-ritterkreuz.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Suhr, Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, SS leader and perpetrator of the Holocaust |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneburg |
DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1946 |
Place of death | Wuppertal |