Hermann Franz (Major General)
Hermann Friedrich Franz (born August 16, 1891 in Stötteritz ; † February 18, 1960 in Bonn ) was a German police officer, SS leader and major general of the police.
Life
Franz attended the citizen school in Dresden from 1898 to 1906 . Then he went to the non-commissioned school in Struppen and in 1909 to the non-commissioned school in Marienberg , which he left as a non-commissioned officer . He took part in the First World War and entered the police force as a lieutenant in 1920.
Franz joined the NSDAP in early December 1931 ( membership number 824.526). From 1933 to 1938 he was the police director in Plauen .
After the beginning of the Second World War he was in the course of the German occupation of Poland until October 1939, commander of the Ordnungspolizei at Army High Command 8. At the beginning of August 1940, he joined the SS (SS no. 361.279), where he was taken on as SS-Obersturmbannführer . After the attack on the Soviet Union in July 1941, Franz became the commander of the Police Regiment South in Ukraine, which took part in the murder of Jews in Ukraine.
From June 1942 to August 1943 he acted as the first commander of the Police Mountain Infantry Regiment 18, together with officers in 1963 he wrote a Landser-style chronicle about the operations of this regiment until the end of the war - see "Works".
From November 1943 to February 1945 he was the commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Athens and from the end of September 1944 he was temporarily higher SS and police leader in Greece for two months .
Franz rose within the SS in November 1944 to the position of SS Brigadefuhrer and had already been promoted to Major General of the Police in September 1944. From February 1945 until the end of the war , he was in charge of the Ordnungspolizei in Norway , where he was taken prisoner by the British, from which he was released in 1947.
He left war memories that were printed after his death.
Works
- Police mountain troops. Police Mountain Infantry Regiment 18 and Police Mountain Artillery Department 1942–1945 , Bad Nauheim 1963
literature
- Degeners who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 434.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Klaus-Michael Mallmann / Bogdan Musial (eds.): Genesis des Genozids - Poland 1939–1941. Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-18096-8 , p. 80
- ↑ Wolfgang Curilla : The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939-1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77043-1 , p. 218
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 161f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franz, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franz, Hermann Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German police officer, SS leader and major general of the police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stötteritz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1960 |
| Place of death | Bonn |