Heinrich Fehlis

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Fehlis in 1944

Heinrich Fehlis (born November 1, 1906 in Wulften am Harz ; † May 11, 1945 in Porsgrunn , Norway ) was a German lawyer, SS-Oberführer and colonel of the police as well as commander of the Security Police and SD (BdS) Norway and commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) in Oslo .

Life

Fehlis finished his school career at the Oberrealschule in Elberfeld with the Abitur . He then studied law and political science at the universities of Marburg , Berlin and Bonn from 1926 to 1931 . The doctor of law completed his legal clerkship at the beginning of June 1935 with the second state examination in law.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the SA at the beginning of April 1933 and switched from there to the SS in 1935 (SS No. 272.255). Since May 1, 1933, he was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,862,366). From June 1935, Fehlis initially worked as a government assistant and from March 1936 as a government assessor at the Secret State Police Office in Berlin . Belonging to the SD , he was subordinate to the SD main office from April 1937 . From September 1937 he was staff leader of the SD-Oberabschnitt Südwest (Stuttgart) and entrusted with the function of deputy head of the Gestapo in Stuttgart . By September 1938, he reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and Government Council . Fehlis was involved in the security police operations during the annexation of Austria and, after the Munich Agreement, in the annexed Sudetenland .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Fehlis worked as a trainer in a special course for senior management in Pretzsch an der Elbe, when he was assigned as commander of task force 1 to Norway, based in Oslo , as part of " Enterprise Weser Exercise " . From November 1940 he took over the duties of commander of the Security Police and SD Oslo and the Commander of the Security Police and SD Norway as successor to SS Oberführer Walter Stahlecker . At the end of January 1941 he was appointed SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat. From September 1941 he held the rank of SS-Standartenführer and in June 1944 he was appointed SS-Oberführer . From April 1942 he was a colonel in the police. He remained in the functions of BdS Norway and KdS Oslo until the end of the war. Fehlis is said to have been heavily dependent on Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven and, as BdS Norway, was responsible for the implementation of the security police persecution measures against Norwegian citizens.

On 8 May 1945 he tried in uniform of the Wehrmacht to escape from Oslo, has been recognized by British troops. When he was about to be arrested, Fehlis shot himself on May 11, 1945 in Porsgrunn, Norway.

literature

  • Gerhard Paul , Klaus-Michael Mallmann : The Gestapo. Myth and Reality. Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-89678-482-X .
  • Stein Ugelvik Larsen, Beatrice Sandberg, Volker Dahm (eds.): Reports from Norway 1940–1945: The secret situation reports of the commander of the Security Police and the SD in Norway , Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-55891-3 . (Short biographies, p. 75f.)

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personal data
SURNAME Fehlis, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader, commander of the security police in Norway
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wulften am Harz
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1945
Place of death Porsgrunn