Günther Pancke

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Pancke was taken into Allied custody on August 17, 1945 in Copenhagen.

Günther Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Pancke (born May 1, 1899 in Gnesen ; † August 17, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police . From 1943 to 1945 he was Higher SS and Police Leader in Denmark .

Life

Pancke was born in 1899 as the son of an officer. From 1910 he was in a Prussian cadet corps and took part in the First World War from 1917 in the rank of lieutenant . After the war he became a member of the Iron Division in the Baltic States and from 1919 to 1920 he was stationed as a member of a volunteer corps in the East Prussian border guard . In 1920 Pancke moved to South America . There he worked as a farm laborer , optionally in Argentina and Chile , before he returned to Germany in 1927 and worked as a laboratory assistant in a physics laboratory in Kiel . Pancke was released from the laboratory in 1931 because he was serving a six-week prison sentence for his work for the National Socialists. The reason for the imprisonment was a gas attack on a cinema in which the film "Nothing New in the West" was shown.

He joined the NSDAP on August 1, 1930 ( membership number 282.737) and on June 1, 1931 the SS (SS number 10.110), for which he was an instructor at the SS school in Kreiensen until June 1932. In the following years he rose further in the SS hierarchy until he succeeded Walther Darré in 1938 as head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) . He held this position until 1940. His successor was SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann . In 1939 Pancke was appointed liaison officer between the Führer Headquarters , the SS Totenkopfverband and the SD Einsatzgruppen . He then worked as a Higher SS and Police Leader "Middle", from October 1943 until the end of the war he held this position for Denmark. In this function he took part in the group leader conference in Poznan on October 4, 1943, at which Heinrich Himmler gave the first speech in Poznan . On April 20, 1944 he was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police. On March 21, 1945 he was promoted to General of the Waffen SS .

Pancke was arrested in Denmark after the Second World War and sentenced to 20 years in prison on September 20, 1948 in Copenhagen at the Great War Crimes Trial. In 1953 he was pardoned. He died in Hamburg in 1973.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The personal lexicon for the Third Reich - who was what before and after 1945. Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Heinemann: Race, settlement, German blood. The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe. Göttingen 2003, p. 115.
  2. ↑ Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. , Düsseldorf 1986, p. 342
  3. ^ Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hitler's Eastern War and German Settlement Policy, Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 84, ISBN 3-596-10573-0
  4. ^ Romuald Karmakar , The Himmler Project , DVD 2000, Berlin, ISBN 3-89848-719-9
personal data
SURNAME Pancke, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pancke, Günther Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obergruppenführer, Higher SS and Police Leader in Denmark
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Gniezno
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1973
Place of death Hamburg