Fritz von Scholz

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After receiving the medal , Fritz von Scholz congratulated the Dutch volunteer Gerardus Mooyman, who was wounded in the right arm, in February 1943

Fritz von Scholz (actually Friedrich Max Karl Scholz Edler von Rarancze ; born December 9, 1896 in Pilsen , † July 28, 1944 near Sinimäe , Estonian SSR ) was an Austrian SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS in World War II .

Life

Friedrich Scholz Edler von Rarancze was born the son of the kuk Major General of the Artillery Ferdinand Scholz Edler von Rarancze and Caroline Höpfengärtner . After taking his high school diploma in Lienz in June 1914 , he joined the Austro-Hungarian Army in August 1914 . In May 1915 he was first assigned to the Field Cannon Regiment 22 and then moved to the Austro-Hungarian Field Howitzer Regiment 3, where he was promoted to lieutenant . In November 1917 he was finally promoted to first lieutenant when he took over the post of reconnaissance and battery officer, later that of an adjutant .

After the First World War he was discharged from the army with several awards. He belonged from 1919 to 1920 as a time volunteer in the Reichswehr Brigade Dessau and participated as volunteers of the student company Köthen in Freikorps Oberland from April to July 1921, the fighting in Upper Silesia in part. After the end of the war, Scholz had learned the profession of chemical engineer in Köthen and completed it in March 1922. He practiced his profession in Klagenfurt , Munich , Leipzig and Tyrol .

On October 9, 1932, he joined the Austrian NSDAP ( membership number 1.304.071) and the SA the following year , where he finally worked as a platoon leader . In June 1933 he left the SA and joined the SS (SS no. 135.638). After the July putsch in 1934, he worked in the SS relief organization in the Dachau concentration camp from August 1934 , and from January 1935 led the Austrian battalion in the SS auxiliary force with the rank of SS Obersturmführer .

After the beginning of the Second World War he led the second battalion of the SS regiment "Der Führer" during the campaign in the west . In December 1940 he was assigned to the SS Wiking Division, where he led the Westland Regiment and, after the attack on the Soviet Union, the Nordland SS Regiment . In January and February 1943 he commanded the 1st and then the 2nd Infantry Brigade for a few weeks. He then briefly took on leading positions in the Ukrainian SS division. From May 1, 1943 to July 27, 1944, Scholz was division commander of the Panzergrenadier division "Nordland" , which consisted mainly of Scandinavian volunteers and ethnic Germans . On July 27, 1944, he was seriously wounded during a Soviet tank attack and died a day later in the hospital. His successor was Joachim Ziegler .

Awards

Scholz's SS ranks
date rank
August 1934 SS-Untersturmführer
January 1935 SS-Obersturmführer
April 1938 SS-Sturmbannführer
January 1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer
January 1941 SS standard leader
October 1941 SS-Oberführer
December 1942 SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS
April 1944 SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS

literature

  • Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 401 f.
  2. ^ A b c Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 402.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 403 f.
  4. Mark C. Yerger : Waffen-SS Commanders: The Army, Corps and Divisional Leaders of a Legend: Krüger to Zimmermann (v. 2) , Schiffer Military History, Atglen, PA 1999, ISBN 978-0764307690 , p. 207.
  5. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 401 ff.
  6. a b Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearer 1939–1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 681.