Fritz Popp (police officer)

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Fritz Popp as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Fritz Popp , full name Friedrich Hans Adolf Popp , (born June 30, 1882 in Nuremberg , † March 17, 1955 in Regensburg ) was a German lawyer, police officer and SS leader.

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After attending school, Popp studied law in Munich and Erlangen . He then entered the administrative service. He worked for a number of years for authorities in Nuremberg and Ansbach before taking part in the First World War with the Bavarian Army from August 1914 to December 1918 . After leaving the army - with the rank of Rittmeister - he returned to the government in Ansbach. In 1927 Popp took over the management of the police department at the regional president of Upper and Middle Franconia. In 1931 he became a consultant for political police affairs .

During the Nazi era , Popp was Police President of Regensburg from 1933 and, from autumn 1937, also head of the local secret state police . He retained this dual position until mid-March 1945. While in the police service he reached the rank of police director and criminal adviser , he joined the SS (member 351,620), of which he had been a member since January 1, 1940, as SS-Obersturmbannführer . Before that, he was storm leader of the SA from 1933 to 1940 . Since 1935 he was also a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 3.60.422).

When the war ended Popp fell into Allied captivity. He was questioned as a witness in the Nuremberg trials . Popp died in 1955 shortly before he was to answer before the Regional Court of Regensburg because of his role in the implementation of the order No. 8 of July 17, 1941, which dealt with the state-ordered mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war.

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