George Ebrecht

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George Christoph Heinrich Ebrecht (born July 24, 1895 in Hamburg , † January 26, 1977 in Lindau (Bodensee) ) was a German SS group leader , lieutenant general of the police, higher SS and police leader (HSSPF) northeast and politician ( NSDAP / SRP / DRP / DFU ).

Life

Vocational training, World War I, emigration and family

Ebrecht, the son of a merchant, attended grammar school without taking the Abitur . From 1912 to 1914 he attended art academies in Berlin and Dresden. As a war volunteer, he took part in the First World War from 1914 . He was discharged from the army in 1918 with the rank of lieutenant . After the war he was with Otto Modersohn in Fischerhude . From 1920 to 1924 he was a member of several voluntary corps . He joined the NSDAP for the first time in 1922 and left Germany soon after the failed Hitler putsch . He then traveled to Japan , India and Africa . From 1926 to 1931 he was a sisal planter in East Africa . In 1926 he divorced his first wife, whom he had married in 1918, and his second marriage. Due to the sharp fall in world market prices for sisal fiber in the course of the global economic crisis , Ebrecht gave up his unprofitable planting in 1931 and returned to Germany. After divorcing his second wife at the end of 1938, he married a third time in 1939. Ebrecht was the father of a total of four children.

Return to Germany, political activity and the time of National Socialism

When he returned to Germany, he joined the SA and NSDAP in 1931 ( membership number 597.464). From 1931 he worked full-time as a propaganda speaker and employee of the Reichsfilmstelle Berlin for the party. From spring 1933 he was district leader in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg . In 1935 he completed a course in propaganda at the Reichsschule Bernau near Berlin .

Ebrecht became a member of the SS in 1935 (membership number 268,990). He was a founding member of the " German Ahnenerbe " association on July 1, 1935. From May 1935 to July 30, 1938, Ebrecht worked in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA), initially as a staff leader of the race office and from the beginning of April 1937 to the end of July 1938 as Staff leader of the RuSHA. He was the supervisory board member for “ideological leadership” at Lebensborn e. V.

Second World War

Ebrecht was SS leader of Section XVIII Halle (Saale) from the beginning of January 1939 to October 1939 and after the beginning of the Second World War of SS Section XXVI Danzig . From the end of October 1939 to the end of March 1940, he was also a self-protection leader in West Prussia . In October 1939 he ordered the murder of 1,400 mentally handicapped people from Pomeranian institutions as part of the "NS euthanasia program" in the forest near Groß Piasnitz . From December 1941 to December 1944 he was Hans-Adolf Prützmann's representative as Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Northeast with headquarters in Königsberg and also headed the SS upper section there. In November 1943 he was appointed SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police. Due to illness, Ebrecht was given leave of absence as HSSPF at the end of 1944. He was then transferred to the Führerreserve.

post war period

At the end of the war, he fled to Bavaria via Vienna in 1945 and was ultimately held in American custody for a short time in the Dachau internment camp . He then moved to the Soviet zone of occupation and from there moved to the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of 1949 . Ebrecht was not denazified in either East or West Germany . He earned his living as a sales representative under difficult economic circumstances. Politically, he worked as an organizational leader in the SRP and, after the party ban, as the state chairman of the DRP in Baden-Württemberg , for which he ran unsuccessfully in the 1953 federal election.

At the invitation of Friedrich Paulus , he took part in the first German-German soldiers' meeting in East Berlin in January 1955 . After this officers' meeting he worked closely with Joachim Nehring , with whom he founded the Working Group for National Defense Issues in April 1955 and the Federation for German Unity in October 1955 . He published the Military Political Forum , which later operated under the title National Political Forum . After founding the German Peace Union (DFU) in December 1960, he was the first chairman of this party for the Kempten / Lindau district . In the Bundestag constituency of Kempten , he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the DFU on the Bavarian state list for the 1961 Bundestag election . In 1961 Ebrecht was a speaker in the GDR at the National Congress of the National Front in Weimar . Nevertheless, a short vita of him was listed in the Brown Book of the GDR.

Because of the murders in West Prussia, the Hanover public prosecutor's office investigated Kurt Eimann and Ebrecht from the beginning of the 1960s . After the indictment was brought, the proceedings against Ebrecht were discontinued in 1967 by the Hanover Regional Court due to inability to stand trial.

literature

Web link

  • Record of two conversations with Mr. George Ebrecht, Lindau-Schachen, Allwindstrasse 5, on October 28 and November 22, 1955 In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, call number 668-2 ( [1] PDF; 1.5 MB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full first name after: Christian Karl Werner: Right, left: Comments on political radicalism in Germany , Volume 1, Hohwacht-Verlag, 1963, p. 124
  2. ↑ Date of death according to: Peter Witte, u. a .: Heinrich Himmler's 1941/42 service calendar. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1999, p. 676 and Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 124. Deviating from this, Torsten Diedrich gives: Paulus: the trauma of Stalingrad. A biography. Schöningh, 2008, p. 551 as the date of death December 21, 1977.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. , Düsseldorf 1986, p. 333.
  4. ↑ a b c Christian Karl Werner: Right, left: Comments on political radicalism in Germany. Volume 1, Hohwacht-Verlag, 1963, p. 124 ff.
  5. ^ Peter Longerich : Heinrich Himmler. Biography, Munich: Siedler, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88680-859-5 , p. 329 f.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 124.
  7. ↑ a b c Henning Pietzsch: The brown legacy - the antifascism of the GDR. . In: Gerbergasse 18 - Thuringian quarterly journal for history and politics, Geschichtswerkstatt Jena e. V., Issue 57 - Edition II / 2010, p. 7 f. (PDF; 80 kB)
  8. ↑ Jürgen Ellermeyer, Klaus Richter, Dirk Stegmann: Harburg: from the castle to the industrial city. Contributions to the history of Harburg, 1288–1938, Christians, 1988, p. 464.
  9. ^ Michael H. Kater: The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS 1935–1945: A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2006, pp. 366, 455, ISBN 3-486-57950-9 .
  10. ↑ Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization "Lebensborn" e. V. Cologne 2007, p. 62.
  11. ^ A b Hans Frederik: NPD, Danger from the Right? Political Archive Publishing House, 1966, p. 127.
  12. ↑ Manfred Jenke : Conspiracy from the right? A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945. Colloquium, Berlin 1961, p. 292.
  13. ↑ Ebrecht, George . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Ebbinghaus to Eyrich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 245 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 201 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 74.
  15. ^ Brown book: War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West). 1968 edition, p. 371.
personal data
SURNAME Ebrecht, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebrecht, George Christoph Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Police as well as Higher SS and Police Leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1977
Place of death Lindau (Lake Constance)