Heinrich Gärtner (SS member)

Heinrich Gärtner (born February 27, 1889 in Nuremberg , † May 5, 1963 in Ahrensburg ) was a German officer , most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS in World War II .

Career

Gärtner was born as the son of a vice-guard in the Royal Bavarian 1st Chevaulegers Regiment "Emperor Nicholas of Russia" in Nuremberg. His father later became a mill master in Schleissheim . Gärtner attended the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich and graduated from the Realgymnasium with the upper secondary qualification. As a one-year volunteer , he enlisted in the army on August 20, 1914 and was assigned to the Royal Bavarian 1st Foot Artillery Regiment "vacant Bothmer" . There he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve on December 9, 1917 .

After the war he attended business school . In May 1919 he reported to the Freikorps Epp , later to the Reichswehr-Schützen-Brigade 21 . There he was head of the equipment warehouse. He was later employed by Reichswehr Command 7 , but was dismissed in the wake of the Hitler putsch . In 1923 he became a member of the German Combat League . Gärtner joined the NSDAP in 1925 after it was re-established ( membership number 35.359). For this he later received the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP . At the same time he became a member of the SA and was there Sturmbannführer .

On February 6, 1934, he became a member of the SS with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer (membership number 148903). He was employed in the staff of the SS main office. On September 9, 1934 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer and became leader of the leadership office of the SS main office . On November 9, 1935, he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer and was head of the SS procurement office. He was promoted in quick succession, first on April 20, 1937, to SS-Oberführer as head of the SS weapons and equipment office and then on January 30, 1944 to SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS as head of the SS-Zentralzeugamt . From November 9, 1944, he served in the SS leadership main office. In 1945 he was captured by the Red Army and extradited to Czechoslovakia . He was sentenced to prison and released in 1953.

See also

• List of SS brigade leaders

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nikolaus von Preradovich : Die Generale der Waffen-SS, Berg am See: Kurt Vowinkel-Verlag, 1985, p. 144 f. ISBN 3-921655-41-2 .
2. ↑ Seniority list of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel, status from October 1, 1934, edit. from the personnel department of the Reichsführer SS, Munich, undated, 12/13.
3. ↑ Seniority list of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel, as of December 1, 1937, edit. from the SS-Personalanzlei, Berlin, 1937, 18/19.
4. ↑ Seniority list of the Waffen-SS, SS-Obergruppenführer to SS-Hauptsturmführer, status from July 1, 1944, corrected August 31, 1944, December 29, 1944, January 31, 1945, undated, 21.
5. ↑ Josef Foltmann, Hanns Möller-Witten: sacrifice of the generals: the losses of the generals and admirals and the other officers and officials in the same rank in World War II , 2nd, substantial. ext., changed u. improved edition, Berlin: Bernard & Graefe, 1953, p. 145 u. P. 172 and edition 1959, p. 170.