Hans-Friedemann Goetze

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Hans-Friedemann Goetze (born November 3, 1897 in Rendsburg , † May 27, 1940 in Le Paradis ) was a German officer, most recently with the rank of SS standard leader . Goetze was the commander of the SS Home Guard in Danzig .

Life

Hans-Friedemann Goetze was the son of the later SS brigade leader Friedemann Goetze . Like his father, he embarked on a military career and took part in the First World War. After the end of the war he took part in the fighting in the Baltic States as a member of the Iron Division . Then he was deployed with the volunteer regiment 210 in the border protection section of Bromberg and also took part in the suppression of the Ruhr uprising. He was then a professional soldier in the Reichswehr and was retired from the army at the end of January 1933 with the rank of captain . From 1933 to 1937 he made his living with the railway protection, from 1936 as "military director of the railway protection school Munich-Freimann".

In the course of the seizure of power by the Nazis, he joined in early February 1933, the SA in which he in May 1937 to the SS moved. With the rank of Sturmbannführer , he became a member of the SS disposable troops and a teacher at the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz . After statements to school guests regarding pictures of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler hanging up in the school , where he called them "SS-Heini" and "Adolf I.", he had to explain himself to the inspector of the disposable troops Paul Hausser . Goetze justified these statements by stating that he only reproduced what he had heard from SS comrades. Hausser was satisfied with this explanation, and the incident had no consequences for Goetze. He became a member of the NSDAP ( membership no . 4,691,460).

From October 1938 he led the III. Sturmbann of the 4th SS-Totenkopf-Standarte "Ostmark" in Berlin-Adlershof , which formed the core of the SS-Heimwehr Danzig set up in the summer of 1939 and was also commanded by Goetze. Supposedly as tourists, Goetze and the SS men under his command went to Danzig in June 1939, where the unit was supplemented by local volunteers. At the beginning of the Second World War , the SS Heimwehr was used in the battle for the Polish post office in Danzig , in the battle for the Westerplatte and Gdynia . As the commander of the 3rd SS Regiment of the SS Totenkopf Division with the rank of Standartenführer he took part in the campaign in the west and fell on May 27, 1940 in Le Paradis. Niels Weise sees in Goetzes war death also a trigger for the massacre of Le Paradis . Goetze was buried on the war cemetery in Bourdon .

literature

  • Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A Sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, pp. 198 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 198 f.
  2. ↑ Gunnar Charles Boehnert: A sociography of the SS Officer Corps, 1925-1939. Submitted for the Doctor of Philosophy School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London, London 1977, p. 199 f.
  3. ↑ Martin Cüppers : “… in such a clean and decent SS-like way.” The Waffen SS in Poland 1939-1941. In: Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Bogdan Musial (Ed.): Genesis des Genozids - Poland 1939–1941. Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-18096-8 , p. 92
  4. ↑ Niels Weise: Eicke. An SS career between a mental hospital, concentration camp system and Waffen-SS (see also: Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 2012). Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77705-8 , p. 290
  5. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Goetze, Hans-Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and SS standard leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1940
Place of death Le Paradis