Fritz Darges

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Fritz Darges (born February 8, 1913 in Dülseberg ; † October 25, 2009 in Celle ) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and at times personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler .

Life

Darges completed a commercial apprenticeship. In 1933 he joined the SS . In 1934 he was promoted to SS-Standartenjunker and in 1935 to SS-Untersturmführer 2nd Standarte SS-VT. Darges took part in the 1st course at the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz in 1934/35 . He then served in the “Germania” regiment until 1939, with the “Germany” regiment until 1940 and was then company commander in the “Der Führer” regiment. Darges belonged to the NSDAP ( membership number 4.166.936) and SS (SS number 72.222).

From 1936 to 1939 he was adjutant to Reichsleiter Martin Bormann . In 1937 he was promoted to Obersturmführer. 1940 to 1942 Darges was an orderly officer with Hitler; then he did troop service. Darges was at the Fuehrer's headquarters until 1944, interrupted by courses and military service . Darges was used in the Wiking division on the Terek and was seriously wounded there on September 28, 1942.

From March 1943 to July 18, 1944 he was personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler, among other things responsible as a companion for the safety of Eva Braun and to protect Hitler and his surroundings. According to Rochus Misch , he was released from Hitler's environment after Darges laughed when Hitler failed to drive away an insect that was annoying to him. According to another version, he should have failed to capture the insect because he did not obey the order due to inattention.

On January 30, 1944, Fritz Darges was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer. On May 16, 1944 he married the widow Renate Freifrau von Hadeln, nee. Freiin von Thermann. In 1944 he is said to have been transferred to the Eastern Front. There he was awarded the Knight's Cross during the fighting in Hungary on April 5, 1945 in his function as commander of the 5 SS Panzer Regiment of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" . He was interned by the US Army on May 8, 1945 and released from prison in 1948.

After the Second World War he lived in Celle , Lower Saxony , and initially worked in a car dealership in the repair department; later as managing director of the Red Cross in Celle. In 1952 he married the doctor Helene Sonnemann (1911–1998), who was involved in child euthanasia in Hamburg during the Second World War . In 1993 he helped organize a meeting of knight cross winners in Celle. Darges died in Celle in 2009, where he was buried in the city cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Heiber (ed.), Hitler's situation talks - the protocol fragments of his military conferences 1942–1945 , Stuttgart 1962, p. 36.
  2. ^ Ernst-Günther Krätschmer , Die Ritterkreuzträger der Waffen-SS , Plesse , Göttingen 1955, p. 851.
  3. ^ Hermann Gremliza ; Günter Wallraff (Ed.), Bertolt Brecht , Der anachronistische Zug or Freiheit und Democracy , Munich 1979, p. 88.
  4. ↑ Ernst Klee , Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 102.
  5. ↑ Traudl Junge , Until the Last Hour - Hitler's Secretary Telling Her Life , Munich 2002, p. 220.
  6. ↑ Andreas Babel, Hitler's adjutant Fritz Darges buried in Celle , in: cellesche-zeitung.de of Nov. 28, 2009.
  7. ^ Darges curriculum vitae, approx. 1944, Federal Archives - Berlin Document Center (BDC), SSO files [= personal documents on SS leaders] Fritz Darges
  8. ^ Rochus Misch, The Last Witness: I was Hitler's telephone operator, courier and bodyguard , Pendo 2008, ISBN 978-3-86612-194-2 .
  9. ^ Escape from the assassination The memoirs of Hitler's adjutant Friedrich Darges (†) from Dülseberg on az-online from July 24, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2016.
  10. ↑ Cf. Himmler v. January 13, 1943, in: BA Koblenz, NS 19 new / 1444; Darges family files, in: Bundesarchiv - Berlin Document Center (BDC). Cf. Döscher, Hans-Jürgen, The Foreign Office in the Third Reich - Diplomacy in the Shadow of the “Final Solution”, Berlin 1987, p. 114.
  11. ^ Charles Hamilton : Leaders and personalities of the Third Reich , San Jose, CA 1984, p. 143.
  12. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham , Crumbling empire: the German defeat in the East, 1944 , London 2001, p. 260.
  13. ^ Hitler's adjutant: From the SS to the Red Cross , in: Der Stern, December 10, 2009, pp. 144–152.
  14. ↑ Fritz Darges: In the inner circle. Adjutant, knight's cross bearer, travel marshal , (= contemporary witnesses report. No. 4), ZeitReisen-Verlag, Bochum 2014, ISBN 978-3-86612-194-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Darges, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmbannführer and adjutant to Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Duelberg , Altmark
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2009
Place of death Celle