Guntram plum

Guntram Pflaum (born April 13, 1903 in Freystadt , † 1945 missing) was a German SS leader and head of the Lebensborn e. V. at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Pflaum, a commercial employee by profession, was a member of the Oberland Bund from 1922 to 1924 . He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.200.703) and SS (SS number 39.477) in 1932. At first, Pflaum belonged to the 1st SS standard in Munich and from there in 1935 moved to the " Reichsstelle für Kippenforschung " as staff leader . In addition, he was a member of the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS from 1938 and rose to SS-Standartenführer in April 1939 in the general SS .

On January 1, 1938, Pflaum was officially appointed managing director of Lebensborn e. V. appointed and held this position until the spring of 1940. The background for the replacement of this position by his successor Max Sollmann was the debt of the association, for which Pflaum was held responsible. He was then drafted into military service during the Second World War. In the late summer of 1941, after the start of the German-Soviet War, Pflaum was commissioned by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler to form the “Sonderkommando Pflaum”. This detail, which the Higher SS and Police Leader was located mid Russia (HSSPF) had, amongst others, the task of German origin to have to track down children and in children's homes SS accommodate or German adoptive families. In the course of the Wehrmacht's withdrawal due to the war , Pflaum took care of the evacuation of children whose fathers were German soldiers. From the beginning of August 1943 he was race and settlement leader at the HSSPF Ostland .

literature

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 .

Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization “Lebensborn” e. V. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007; 306 pages. ISBN 978-3-412-21606-1 .

Isabel Heinemann: "Race, Settlement, German Blood": The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the new racial order in Europe . Wallstein, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89244-623-7 .

Web links

The Lebensborn e. V. (PDF; 52 kB)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 459.
↑ ^a ^b Isabel Heinemann: "Race, settlement, German blood": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the new racial order in Europe , Göttingen 2003, p. 628.
↑ Guntram Pflaum on www.dws-xip.pl
↑ Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization “Lebensborn” e. V. , Cologne 2007, p. 61f.
↑ Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization “Lebensborn” e. V. , Cologne 2007, p. 243.
↑ Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization “Lebensborn” e. V. , Cologne 2007, p. 165.
^ Christian Gerlach: Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944 , Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1998. ISBN 3-930908-54-9 , p. 1082

personal data
SURNAME	Plum, Guntram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS leader and head of Lebensborn e. V.
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freystadt
DATE OF DEATH	1945

[Klee459-1] A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 459.

[Heinemann628-2] Isabel Heinemann: "Race, settlement, German blood": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the new racial order in Europe , Göttingen 2003, p. 628.

[3] Guntram Pflaum on www.dws-xip.pl

[Koop61f-4] Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization “Lebensborn” e. V. , Cologne 2007, p. 61f.

[5] Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization “Lebensborn” e. V. , Cologne 2007, p. 243.

[6] Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization “Lebensborn” e. V. , Cologne 2007, p. 165.

[7] Christian Gerlach: Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944 , Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1998. ISBN 3-930908-54-9 , p. 1082