Heinrich Vogel (SS member)

Ludwig Wilhelm Heinrich Vogel , called Heinrich Vogel (born March 26, 1901 in Schöneberg ; † February 6, 1958 in Bad Cannstatt ) was a German agricultural scientist and SS leader .

Life

Vogel, son of a commercial employees, concluded in his hometown, the secondary school in 1920 with the High School from. From April 1920 Vogel completed a two-year agricultural training course. Vogel then completed his studies at the Agricultural University in Berlin , which he graduated in May 1926 as a qualified farmer. During his studies, Vogel worked as a research assistant at the Berlin Institute for Animal Breeding from August 1924 to November 1925 . At the beginning of October 1926 Vogel joined the German Agricultural Society and was then employed in various positions in the field of animal breeding. From 1929 Vogel was a civil servant animal breeding employee of thePrussian Ministry of Food and Agriculture . Until 1939, Vogel held a leading position at various animal breeding offices, most recently as an agricultural councilor in the Reichsnährstand .

At the beginning of November 1933, Vogel became a member of the SS (SS No. 259.958) and at the beginning of May 1937 the NSDAP ( membership number 5.787.047). In January 1942, Vogel rose to the position of SS-Obersturmbannführer in the reserve of the Waffen-SS . In January 1939, Vogel became managing director of the SS company, the German Research Institute for Nutrition and Catering, in Berlin . From the beginning of February 1939 Vogel was SS-Führer in the staff of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and became head of department in the Main Office of Administration and Economics (HAVW). At the beginning of March 1941 Vogel took over the position III D in the HAVW and at the beginning of September 1941 changed as head of the WV in the HAVW.

After the establishment of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA), Vogel headed the WV (Agriculture, Forestry and Fish Management ) Office from the beginning of February 1942 until the end of the Second World War .

After the end of the war Vogel, who was never prosecuted, lived in Dornstetten .

literature

• Walter Naasner (Hrsg.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung - The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt and the economic ventures under its supervision , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, publications of the Federal Archives: 45a, ISBN 3-7700-1603-3 .
• Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933–1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 354f.
2. ^ Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933–1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 477.
3. ^ Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933–1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 436.