Günther Pröhl
Günther Pröhl (born March 14, 1895 in Schwerin , † November 19, 1977 in Ahrensburg , Schleswig-Holstein ) was the main department head in the Reich Commissioner for Ostland .
Life
Born in Mecklenburg, Pröhl took an active part in the First World War; in the Weimar Republic he became NSKK Obergruppenführer in Kiel . His office was at Knooperweg 57.
After the outbreak of World War II , he took over the Panzer Jäger Department 290 of the 290th Infantry Division .
After the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, Pröhl became an employee of the civil administration in the Reichskommissariat Ostland , one of the main crime scenes of the Holocaust . He became Head of Department 1 ("Politics"). On January 17, 1942, he had the rank of captain, and together with Karl von Oven and Manfred von Petersdorff, he was awarded the Knight's Cross by Adolf Hitler. In 1943 he was already a major. After the Reichskommissariat Ostland collapsed, he was appointed commander of the Hamburg Volkssturm in Hamburg and saw the end of the war there.
literature
- Kerstin Siebenborn: The Volkssturm in the south of Hamburg 1944/45 . (= Contributions to the history of Hamburg 20). Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 1988.
Web links
- Uwe Danker: The murder of Jews in the Reich Commissariat Ostland . In: Gegenwind No. 128, May 1999.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Pröhl in: ww2awards.com; accessed on June 11, 2017
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, accessed December 4, 2013)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pröhl, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer in the Reichskommissariat Ostland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th November 1977 |
| Place of death | Ahrensburg , Schleswig-Holstein |