Fritz Barnekow

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Fritz Barnekow (born December 18, 1899 in Alt Ruppin ; † unknown) was a German police officer.

Live and act

After attending school and participating in the First World War , Barnekow studied law for seven semesters . He finally dropped out without a degree and entered the police force as a detective inspector candidate. He passed the inspector's examination in 1930 at the Charlottenburg Police Institute . In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the steel helmet from 1923 to 1928 .

On January 1, 1932, Barnekow was transferred to the Berlin Police Headquarters as a commissioner , where he was taken over into the Political Police after the events of the Prussian strike of July 20, 1932 .

When the Secret State Police Office was founded a few weeks after the National Socialists came to power , Barnekow was one of the first officials to be accepted into this new authority. According to the business distribution plan of January 22, 1934, he became head of Commissariat 2 (Aviation, Coast, Reichswehr and Navy, England, other foreign countries) in Department IV by January 1934 at the latest.

In the spring of 1934 Barnekov was transferred to the Berlin State Police and on May 1, 1935 to the Kiel State Police . There he was promoted to the criminal councilor on December 1, 1938 and later to the criminal director. At an unexplained point in time, he became deputy head of the Kiel Gestapo as Hans Henschke's deputy, and from 1941 to 1943 he also headed the Department of Jews II B 5 of the Kiel Gestapo. In this capacity, Gerhard identified Paul Barnekow for December 1941 as "one of the main organizers of the Schleswig-Holstein deportation of Jews".

In March 1943 he was seconded to the Lodz state police station and in 1944 he was still the leader of a zbV command with the commander of the security police and SD (BdS) Litzmannstadt . In February 1944 Barnekow was transferred to the BdS Paris. He died in French internment custody.

Membership in Nazi organizations

From February 1933 to October 1936 Barnekow belonged to the Berliner Motor-SA . In 1936 Barnekow joined the SS (SS No. 290.679), in which he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on November 9, 1938 and to Sturmbannführer on May 1, 1942. The Nazi party he belonged since 1 May 1937 ( membership number 3947667).

literature

  • Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. Berlin 1983.
  • Gerhard Paul : State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. With the collaboration of Erich Koch. Results, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-87916-037-6 .
  • Gerhard Paul: "Re .: evacuation of Jews". The Gestapo as the regional central institution for the persecution of the Jews. In: Gerhard Paul, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (ed.): Menora and swastika. On the history of the Jews in and from Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck and Altona (1918–1998). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-06149-2 , pp. 491-520.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Paul: State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. , Hamburg 1996, p. 264
  2. ^ Gerhard Paul: State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. , Hamburg 1996, p. 235
personal data
SURNAME Barnekow, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Ruppin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century