Georg Oberdieck

Georg Oberdieck (born January 23, 1869 in Hanover ; † May 30, 1945 ) was a German officer and SA-Obergruppenführer .

Life

Oberdieck was the son of a doctor. After attending a grammar school , which he left with the Abitur , he joined the field artillery regiment "von Scharnhorst" (1st Hannoversches) No. 10 of the Prussian Army in 1890 as a flag squire . In 1891 he was promoted to lieutenant . In the following years he served in various artillery regiments and in the General Staff in Berlin, where he achieved the rank of major .

During the First World War Oberdieck was used as a staff officer in the 1st Lower Alsace Field Artillery Regiment No. 31 and as artillery commander No. 52. He was wounded twice and was awarded several medals. From 1919 to 1920 he commanded the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 10 of the Provisional Reichswehr , before retiring from military service as a colonel in October 1920 . A volunteer corps he never belonged to.

In the 1920s he was involved from 1924 to 1930 in the Veteranenbund Stahlhelm , in which he held the post of Gau leader of Hanover for a year.

In 1930 Oberdieck joined the NSDAP and its task force, the SA . In the SA he soon rose from a simple SA man to storm leader. A few months later he was given a staff post in the Gausturm Hannover-Süd. He then held other positions in SA headquarters and schools until September 1939.

In September 1939 Oberdieck was appointed deputy leader of the Lower Saxony SA group. In this position, the leaders of the group who were active in the war represented Max Linsmayer and Günther Gräntz . On January 23, 1944, Oberdieck was appointed SA Obergruppenführer, the highest rank in the SA hierarchy, in this position.

Campbell evaluates Oberdieck as a typical exponent of the group of "renegades" ( defectors ) in the SA leadership, which met from 1929 from other organizations to Nazi movement after it began to prevail as the dominant group of the nationalist right in Germany. Due to their advanced age, men like Oberdieck would have been useless as leaders of SA units in street fights, but due to their administrative experience they would have represented a valuable addition for the NSDAP, as they were responsible for organizing the staffs and carrying out the planning of SA operations and the training of the younger leaders had contributed significantly to the development of the SA's effectiveness as a paramilitary street combat unit. In addition, Oberdieck in particular would have weakened a competitor of the NSDAP for the leadership of the right-wing camp by switching from the Stahlhelm to the SA by losing a capable leader and the latter winning him. In addition, the SA benefited from his personal prestige at the regional level.

literature

• Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism. 2004, pp. 74-76.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1926. p. 494.