Fritz Herrmann (SS member)

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Fritz Gottfried Heinrich Herrmann (born June 15, 1885 in Magdeburg ; † November 21, 1970 in Lüneburg ) was a German officer who worked as an SS leader , police president and district president during the Nazi era .

Life

Until 1933

The son of an engineer attended preparatory school and high school in his hometown . After graduating from high school , he decided to become a professional soldier and joined the foot artillery regiment "von Linger" (East Prussian) No. 1 of the Prussian Army in October 1904 as a flag squire . For Lieutenant promoted, he attended in 1908/09 the artillery shooting school Jüterbog and 1913/14 the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin . After the beginning of the First World War , he was initially employed in the rank of captain until 1916 as a battery leader and adjutant and then in the General Staff . His last position was in 1919 with the East High Command .

At the end of the war, Herrmann moved to the Prussian police force as a major at the beginning of June 1919 and headed a police force department in Berlin-Zehlendorf from 1920 . He was dismissed from the police force in 1922 for "political reasons". He then worked in the economy and managed a factory in Dresden until 1924 . He then completed a degree in economics. From 1925 to 1930 he was also the organizational leader of the Young German Order . From 1930 to 1933 he lived as a journalist and writer in Berlin . Herrmann was friends with Erhard Milch and the husband of his daughter Herta.

time of the nationalsocialism

Herrmann's SS ranks
date rank
April 1934 SS-Untersturmführer
June 1934 SS-Obersturmführer
April 1935 SS-Hauptsturmführer
April 1936 SS-Sturmbannführer
January 1937 SS-Obersturmbannführer
November 1938 SS standard leader
January 1939 SS-Oberführer
June 1944 SS Brigade Leader

After the National Socialists seized power , he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.131.632) in April 1933 and the SS (SS number 36.242) in August 1933 . His request for re-use in the police service was granted and from mid-March 1933 Herrmann was initially acting and from April 1933 officially police chief in Hagen . In April 1934 he took over the post of police chief in Stettin and was also head of the local Gestapo office . From November 1935 he was officially police chief in Stettin and moved to Dresden in the same position in January 1939.

After the invasion of Poland , Herrmann was for a short time Chief of Civil Administration (CdZ) at the 4th Army High Command . With the help of Hitler, the Gauleiter Albert Forster in Gdańsk managed to get himself appointed to the CdZ on September 5th. Herrmann took over the post of regional president in the administrative district of Danzig (Danzig-West Prussia), initially provisionally and in May 1940 officially . At the beginning of January 1943 he moved to Lüneburg, where he was initially the executive president of the district and at the beginning of May 1944 officially took over the official business of the district president until the end of the Second World War . In June 1944 he was promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer .

post war period

At the end of the war, Herrmann was dismissed from office by the British military administration. He was denazified as a minor offender after a trial chamber procedure . Until 1954 he campaigned unsuccessfully for the granting of a pension for a district president.

"My dear Dietrich, for the time being I was satisfied with the pension of a police chief in Dresden (B9)."

- Fritz Herrmann in a letter dated January 5, 1954 to Dietrich Allers ( Campaign T4 )

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 175 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian state research. Economic and social history group. 16).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. f, Münster 2004, p. 175.
  2. ^ Robert Thévoz, Hans Branig , Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel : Pommern 1934/35 in the mirror of Gestapo situation reports and factual files. Representation . (= Publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, volume 11/12), Grote, Cologne 1974, p. 290.
  3. ↑ Erich Kuß: The milk family in Breslau and their Jewish or German descendants , ISBN 978-3-8440-4727-1 , p. 69ff.
  4. ^ SS ranks according to: Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. f, Münster 2004, p. 175
  5. ^ A b c Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. , Münster 2004, p. 176.
  6. ^ Michael Alberti: The persecution and extermination of the Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland 1939-1945 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 35.
  7. ↑ Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 247f.
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrmann, Fritz Gottfried Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, policeman, SS leader and district president
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1970
Place of death Luneburg