Gerhard Flesch
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Gerhard Friedrich Ernst Flesch (born October 8, 1909 in Posen ; † February 28, 1948 executed in Trondheim / Norway) was SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat, head of the state police station in Erfurt , leader of Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe VI in German during the Nazi era occupied Poland , commander of the security police and SD in Bergen and Trondheim.
Life
Flesch joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.018.617) and the SS (SS number 267.300) in 1933; until 1935 he was politically active as the NSDAP cell leader in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. After completing his law degree, Flesch went to the Security Service (SD), where he was employed as an assessor from October 1936 for the monitoring of religious sects. Further stations in his professional career were the deputy head of the Gestapo in Frankfurt (Oder) from January 1, 1938 and his assignment as deputy head of the Gestapo in Saarbrücken a year later. After a brief service in Pilsen , he headed the Gestapo in Erfurt from mid-1939. Meanwhile appointed SS-Sturmbannführer and government assistant, Flesch was also active as political advisor to the Thuringian Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel .
When the attack on Poland began , Flesch, like many members of the SD, was assigned to the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and was entrusted with the management of Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe VI.
During the campaign in the west , Flesch led a special command of the security police with the task of securing secret files from the French security police.
From April 23, 1940 to October 11, 1941, he worked as commander of the security police and SD (KdS) in Bergen, Norway . He then held the same position in Trondheim , where he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat on January 30, 1944.
Flesch was sentenced to death by a Norwegian court after the war and executed in Trondheim on February 28, 1948, because of an order to the commandant of the Falstad prison camp, not far from Trondheim, to shoot three Jewish prisoners .
literature
- Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider (eds.): Sources for the history of Thuringia. The Gestapo in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945 , State Center for Civic Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2004.
- Robert Bohn : Guilt and Atonement. The Norwegian settlement with the German occupiers. in: ders. (Ed.): Germany, Europe and the North. Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-06413-3 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flesch, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flesch, Gerhard Friedrich Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS Obersturmbannführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1948 |
| Place of death | Trondheim , Norway |