Hans Fischer (SS member)

Hans Fischer (born August 21, 1906 in Rottenbach in Thuringia , † after 1944 (whereabouts after the end of the war unknown)) was a German lawyer, police officer and SS leader. During the time of National Socialism, Fischer rose to the position of SS-Oberführer and Colonel of the Police and exercised the following functions: Head of the State Police in Münster , Königsberg , Breslau and Reval , Leader of Einsatzgruppe III in German-occupied Poland and Inspector of the Security Police and SD in Stuttgart and Berlin .

Origin and studies

After graduating from high school, Fischer studied law in Jena , Halle and Königsberg . In 1930 he laid the first state exam and 1933, the second state examination and attained a doctorate to Dr. jur.

On May 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1,187,881) and the SS (SS number 29,627).

In the police force

At the state police station in Erfurt he started as a government assessor in 1933 in the civil service. From October 1, 1934 to April 13, 1935, he headed this department.

On June 18, 1934, he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer . In 1935, Dr. Fischer from the Evangelical Church .

On April 13, 1935, he was appointed head of the Recklinghausen state police station and in 1936 transferred to Münster in the same position . On January 30, 1936, he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer. Further stations as head of the respective state police stations were Königsberg , Breslau and Reval . After renewed promotion to SS-Hauptsturmführer on January 30, 1937, Dr. Fischer appointed to the senior government council on July 28, 1938. The promotion to SS-Obersturmbannführer also happened in 1938.

With the "Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police" in Poland

As head of the state police station in Breslau and meanwhile SS-Standartenführer , Fischer finally took over the leadership of Einsatzgruppe III of the " Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei " in the war against Poland until its dissolution on November 20, 1939. The Einsatzgruppe consisted of the following two Einsatzkommandos:

• Task Force 1 / III: Dr. Wilhelm Scharpwinkel
• Task Force 2 / III: Dr. Fritz Liphardt

In the wake of the 8th Army under General Johannes Blaskowitz , Einsatzgruppe III reached Lodz from Breslau via Kempen and Kalisch on September 10, 1939 . In the "Special Instructions No. 16" of Army High Command 8 of September 9, 1939, the task of the task force was described as follows:

"Combat all anti-Reich and anti-German elements backwards of the fencing troops. In particular counter-espionage, arrest of politically unreliable persons, confiscation of weapons, securing of documents important to the defense police, etc., support of the local authorities. in the registration of refugees and conscripts. "

The instructions of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler to the Einsatzgruppen , however, went far beyond these tasks and, as a result, aimed at the most extensive possible destruction of the Polish intelligentsia .

Security Police Inspector

At the end of 1939, Fischer was employed as an inspector of the Security Police and the SD (IdS) in Vienna until February 24, 1940. Promoted to SS-Oberführer on November 9, 1941, he was employed as IdS in Stuttgart . At the same time he was the commander of the security police and the SD for Strasbourg - Alsace . Finally he became IdS in Berlin on April 12, 1944 and inspector of the schools of the security police until November 9, 1944.

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd class
• War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords
• War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords
• SA sports badge in bronze
• Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
• SS ring of honor

After the war

Details about his life after the end of the war are not known.

literature

• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office , Hamburger Edition , 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .
• Hermann-J. Rupieper / Alexander Sperk (ed.): The situation reports of the secret state police on the province of Saxony 1933-1936 , vol. 3: Administrative region of Erfurt. Edited with supplementary materials, introduced and explained by Alexander Sperk, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-89812-215-8 .