Gustav from the field

Gustav vom Felde (born June 28, 1908 in Bad Eilsen ; † November 22, 1943 in Berlin ) was SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat , head of the state police stations in Bielefeld , Erfurt and Weimar , leader of Einsatzkommandos 9 in Mies and head of the National Socialist German Reich Office group IA (personnel department) of the Reich Security Main Office .

Life

After high school and high school in Bückeburg , von Felde studied law in Innsbruck , Berlin and Göttingen from 1929 . In 1932 he passed the 1st state examination.

On December 15, 1930 vom Feld joined the NSDAP ( membership number 325.471) and the SS (SS number 9.804). SS-Unterscharführer in 1933 , he was promoted to SS-Scharführer in 1934, in 1935 to SS-Oberschar- and Hauptscharführer, in 1936 when he was appointed officer to SS-Untersturmführer, in 1938 to SS-Obersturmführer and finally in the same year to SS-Hauptsturmführer.

Vom Felde passed his assessor exam on April 22, 1936 and was employed by the Bielefeld state police station . The following year he was given the task of managing it.

During the occupation of the "remaining Czech Republic " and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Einsatzkommando 9 led from the field in Mies (Stříbro) in the Sudetenland . He was also initially designated as the leader of a task force for the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police in the war against Poland , but was replaced at short notice by another SS leader and at the end of August 1939 he was appointed head of the Erfurt police station and from 1940 head of the Weimar police station . With two interruptions from June 1, 1940 to August 12, 1940, during which he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , and from July 1941 to the end of 1942 as commander of the EK of Sipo at AOK Norway (command post Finland) in Finland, he led the Stapostelle Weimar to March 1943. In the meantime promoted to the Upper Government Council on October 1, 1942 , he was appointed head of the Office Group IA (Personnel Department) of the Reich Security Main Office on April 1, 1943 .

In a bomb attack on Berlin on November 22, 1943, Gustav vom Felde was killed in the service building of the Reich Security Main Office at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 9 . Adolf Hitler appointed him posthumously on February 14, 1944, effective November 1, 1943, as director of government .

literature

• Marlis Gräfe (Ed.): The Secret State Police in the NS-Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. (= sources on the history of Thuringia. Volume 24). State Center for Civic Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2004, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 .