Gerret Korsemann

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Gerret Korsemann in 1931 in SA uniform on the occasion of the establishment of the Harzburg Front

Gerret Korsemann (born June 8, 1895 in Nebel (Amrum) , † July 16, 1958 in Munich ) was a German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police. During the Second World War, among other things, he worked as an SS and police leader in the occupied Soviet Union .

Life

Korsemann took part in the First World War, where he received the Iron Cross I and II Class in 1914 and the Wound Badge in Black in 1918 . After the war, he was one of the volunteer corps of "Grodno". From 1921 to 1923 he stayed in the Baltic States . He married a Danish woman in 1922 and had two children. From 1923 to 1926 Korsemann stayed in the Baltic States. In November 1926 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 47,735) and the SA . Then he was in the police service, where he was from 1937 as captain of the police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. In 1938 he became a major and in 1939 a lieutenant colonel in the police force. End of January 1939 he was in the rank of SS-top leader in the SS taken (SS no. 314170).

After the outbreak of World War II , he was in 1940 commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Lublin in German-occupied Poland . In August 1941 he became an SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police and was deployed in the Soviet Union as Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for special purposes (from September 1, 1941, intended for the Caucasus ). In 1941 he was instrumental in the organization of the mass shootings of 17,000 Jews in Rovno , where he was SS and Police Leader (SSPF) from August 1, 1941 to January 1, 1942. In early 1942 he was responsible for the murder of around 12,000 Jews from Kharkov . It is also believed that he was involved in the murder of over 33,000 Kiev Jews in Babyn Yar (September 29 and 30, 1941). In July 1942 he became SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police. From mid-1942 he was SSPF of the Caucasus (SSPF "Rostov-Avdejewka"). After withdrawing from the Caucasus, he was Deputy HSSPF for Central Russia in Mogilew from March 24 to July 5, 1943 . At the same time, in the summer of 1943, accusations arose against him within the SS that he had behaved like a coward when he withdrew from the Caucasus. Korsemann wrote to his superior, Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist , to request a letter of exoneration. Heinrich Himmler was so upset that a senior SS officer turned to a Wehrmacht general for relief that he demoted Korsemann and “transferred” him to the Waffen SS. From January 1944 until the end of the war he served as Hauptsturmführer of the Waffen SS in the front. He led a company of the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" .

After the war he was extradited to Poland , charged in a Polish court and sentenced in 1947 to 18 months in prison. In 1949 he was released from prison and lived undisturbed in the Federal Republic of Germany.

literature

  • Ruth Bettina Birn: The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 (also: Stuttgart, Universität, Dissertation, 1985).
  • Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941-1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. , Düsseldorf 1986, p. 339.
  2. ^ Thomas sand cooler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives by Berthold Beitz 1941-1944 , Bonn 1996, p. 431.
  3. Dieter Pohl : "The Murder of Ukraine's Jews under German Military Administration and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine", in Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower (Eds.): The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization , Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2008 , Pp. 23-76, here page 37 ( ISBN 978-0-253-35084-8 ).
  4. Dieter Pohl: “Scene in Ukraine. The mass murder of the Jews in the military administration area and in the Reich Commissariat 1941–1943 ”, in: Christian Hartmann , Johannes Hürter , Peter Lieb , Dieter Pohl: The German War in the East 1941–1944. Facets of a border crossing , Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, pp. 155–196, here p. 169, note 81 ( ISBN 978-3-486-59138-5 ).
  5. Heinz Höhne "The Order under the Skull - History of the SS", Weltbild Verlag 1992, p. 382.
  6. ^ According to Horst Adler, Geschichte von Schweidnitz 1934-1939, dismissed without conviction in 1949.