Friedrich Wilhelm Starck

Friedrich Wilhelm Starck (born May 20, 1891 in Germersheim , † February 21, 1968 in Regensburg ) was a German police president , SS brigade leader and major general of the police.

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After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , Starck started a career as a professional soldier in October 1910 and joined the Royal Bavarian 22nd Infantry Regiment "Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern" . He took part continuously in the First World War. After the end of the war he was briefly a member of the Epp Freikorps and was discharged from the army in April 1920. After that he worked for a few more months at the processing office.

In September 1920 he entered the service of the Bavarian State Police in Munich with the rank of police lieutenant . The Nazi Party he joined in September 1923 for the first time. As head of the "Starck Group" of the Sturmabteilung in the Bund Reichskriegsflagge he took part in the Hitler putsch in November 1923 . Because of the coup participation, he was given leave of absence from the police force in December 1923 and released in March 1924. After the party was banned by the NSDAP, in 1924 he belonged to the Nazi front organization Großdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft . In Munich in 1924 he found a new job with postal advertising and in 1927 switched to the publishing house of the Münchner Zeitung , where he remained until his dismissal due to National Socialist engagement.

In August 1929 he rejoined the NSDAP ( membership number 144.016) and at the same time he was accepted into the SS (SS number 1.707). From August 22, 1929 to January 21, 1932 he was adjutant of the Reichsführer SS (RFSS) Heinrich Himmler and then until July 17, 1932 of the SA group leader Franz Ritter von Epp . He then headed Human Resources Department I in the RFSS staff.

Starck's SS ranks
date	rank
August 22, 1929	SS-Sturmbannführer
July / August 1932	SS standard leader
November 10, 1933	SS-Oberführer
April 20, 1934	SS Brigade Leader

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he was taken back to the police at the beginning of April 1933, where he briefly headed the political border police in Bavaria. From May 1933 he was the leader of SS-Section I in Munich, from April 1934 to January 1935 of SS-Section XXIX in Mannheim and then temporarily of SS-Section IX in Würzburg . From February 1936 he was initially acting and later officially police director in Augsburg . From 1937 to 1941 he was also head of the local Gestapo . From 1938 he held the title of Police President and held this position in Augsburg until the end of April 1945. Within the police force, he was promoted to major general in 1944. From the beginning of January 1943 until the end of the war, he also led SS Section XXXII in Augsburg.

Shortly before the end of the war, he left Augsburg and was taken prisoner by the Americans on May 7, 1945 . He was then detained in the Regensburg internment camp and denazified as an incriminated person (Group II) after a trial chamber procedure . Also because of the shooting of the businessman Andreas Wunsch on April 28, 1945, proceedings against Starck were carried out by the Augsburg Regional Court from December 14, 1948 . He was sentenced to four years imprisonment (extenuating circumstances) for manslaughter , taking into account his pre-trial detention, and released on pardon at the end of 1951. After his release from prison he lived in Augsburg and was employed as a representative of a parquet manufacturer in Rosenheim .

literature

• Markus Pöhlmann : Starck, Friedrich Wilhelm , in: Stadtlexikon Augsburg (online) from September 2, 2010.
• LG Augsburg, December 20, 1948 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German convictions for Nazi homicides 1945–1966, Vol. III, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1969, No. 109, pp. 693–709 Shooting of a civilian who, after a call by the 'Freiheitsaktion Bayern', had called on soldiers to surrender and shot a Volkssturm company leader when he was arrested

Web links

• Joachim Lilla : Starck, Friedrich , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945 , ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1909/10.
2. ^ Thierry Tixier: Allgemeine-SS, Polizei et Waffen-SS Officiers, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics. Volume 2: SS Brigade Leader. December 2016, ISBN 978-1-32654-867-4 , p. 1930.