Georg Schreyer

Georg Schreyer (born July 16, 1884 in Golk , † May 9, 1961 in Wuppertal ) was a German police officer, most recently lieutenant general of the police and SS group leader in World War II .

Life

Schreyer attended the Saxon Cadet Corps from 1900 and joined the Infantry Regiment "Prince Johann Georg" (8th Royal Saxon) No. 107 in March 1905 and graduated from the Danzig War School and the Marienberg NCO School in the following years. After the outbreak of the First World War he was promoted to captain in September 1914 and briefly assigned to the Snowshoe Battalion II in February / March 1915 until he was deployed with the Jäger Regiment No. 3 from February 1916 to November 1918. After the end of the war he was officially discharged from the army at the end of July 1920 with the rank of major.

Schreyer joined the Saxon police service at the beginning of October 1919 with the rank of captain of the state security police and initially worked as a law enforcement officer at the Leipzig police station. From 1923 to 1928 he was head of the 8th police station until he was promoted to gendarmerie major at the beginning of July 1928 and became commander of the Riesa department at the Saxon gendarmerie.

The NSDAP he stepped before the transfer of power to the Nazis beginning in December 1930 at ( membership number 766705). At the beginning of the National Socialist era , he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in early July 1933 and was initially deputy to the commander of the police in Leipzig until he took up this position. At the end of January 1936 he was promoted to colonel in the protection police. From the beginning of August 1937 to the end of May 1939 he was inspector of the Ordnungspolizei (ITE) in military district IX (Kassel) and from mid-June 1939 in military district III (Berlin) . In July 1939 he was accepted into the Schutzstaffel (SS-Standartenführer) (SS-Nr. 327.419) and initially belonged to the staff of the SS-Oberstufe Fulda-Werra, from November 1939 to the staff of the SS main office and soon afterwards to the staff of the Reichsführer-SS.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Schreyer continued his SS and police career and rose in November 1941 to the position of SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police. In April 1940 he was transferred to the main office of the Ordnungspolizei as IDO zbV , where he officially worked as Inspector General of the Reich Security Police from November 1940 .

On instructions from Heinrich Himmler , a two-month mission to fight partisans in German-occupied Slovenia followed in mid-December 1941 after raids on German police units. In order to make fighting partisans in Slovenia more efficient, Schreyer formed the Southeast Police Task Force there. In this context, all police and gendarmerie units in the operational area were subordinate to him and he was entrusted with the management of military operations against the partisans. Members of the German police units attempted to track down bases or to kill partisans directly, raids were carried out in villages and people suspected of cooperating with partisans were arrested. A significant large-scale deployment of the police units took place from January 9 to 12, 1942 in the area around Dražgose (Draschgosche). During these operations, the police units acted extremely brutally against partisans and, in some cases, civilians.

Schreyer then returned to his post as General Inspector of the Police and remained in this position until he was retired on August 1, 1943. From June 1944 to May 1945 Schreyer was used as District Administrator aW In Podersam .

After the end of the war

Awards (selection)

Schreyer's SS and police ranks in World War II
date	rank
April 1940	SS-Oberführer
October 1940	Major General of the Police
March 1941	SS Brigade Leader
November 1941	SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class and 1st class
Saxon Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Albrecht Order with Crown and Swords (1917)
War Merit Cross I (1942) and II. Class (1941) with swords
Austrian Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Swords
Bavarian Order of Military Merit 4th Class with Swords (1917)

literature

Thierry Tixier: General-SS, Police et Waffen-SS Officiers, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics. Volume 3, 2016, ISBN 978-1-326-84038-9 .

Individual evidence

^ On the history of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1945 , 1. Hans Joachim Neufeldt: Development and organization of the Ordnungspolizei main office . In: Schriften des Bundesarchivs, Edition 3, H. Boldt Verlag, 1957, p. 114.
↑ Ralph Klein: The SS-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 18 and its battalions. In: Carsten Gansel / Matthias Braun: It's about Erwin Strittmatter or From the dispute about memory (= German-language contemporary literature and media. Volume 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-997-0 , p. 330ff.
^ On the history of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1945 , 1. Hans Joachim Neufeldt: Development and organization of the Ordnungspolizei main office . In: Schriften des Bundesarchivs, Edition 3, H. Boldt Verlag, 1957, p. 114.

personal data
SURNAME	Schreyer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schreyer, Georg Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Golk
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1961
Place of death	Wuppertal

[1] On the history of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1945 , 1. Hans Joachim Neufeldt: Development and organization of the Ordnungspolizei main office . In: Schriften des Bundesarchivs, Edition 3, H. Boldt Verlag, 1957, p. 114.

[2] Ralph Klein: The SS-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 18 and its battalions. In: Carsten Gansel / Matthias Braun: It's about Erwin Strittmatter or From the dispute about memory (= German-language contemporary literature and media. Volume 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-997-0 , p. 330ff.

[3] On the history of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1945 , 1. Hans Joachim Neufeldt: Development and organization of the Ordnungspolizei main office . In: Schriften des Bundesarchivs, Edition 3, H. Boldt Verlag, 1957, p. 114.