Hermann Ramsperger

Hermann Ramsperger (born December 3, 1892 in Konstanz , † January 17, 1986 in Überlingen ) was a German police chief in Mannheim and Kattowitz at the time of National Socialism as well as an SS brigade leader .

Life

Ramsperger completed a law degree after graduating and was later awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . He took part in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. The lawyer later entered the police force.

As part of the takeover by the Nazis , he joined in the spring of 1933, the SS (SS-Nr. 71847) and the NSDAP at ( membership number 1895282). For half a year he temporarily headed the political police in Baden and was then police chief of Mannheim from autumn 1933 to 1940 . Within the Schutzstaffel he rose to Brigadefuhrer in 1942, his highest SS rank. He was also a member of the personal staff of the Reichsführer-SS . After taking over police functions in Gleiwitz , he became police chief of Katowice in 1943.

After the end of the Second World War he was interned and denazified . He took up residence in Mannheim.

literature

• Michael Stolle: The Secret State Police in Baden. Personnel, organization, effect and aftermath of a regional prosecution authority in the Third Reich. UVK Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 978-3-89669-820-9 .
• Friedrich Wilhelm: The police in the Nazi state: the history of their organization at a glance. Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 978-3-506-77513-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm: The police in the Nazi state: The history of their organization at a glance. Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, p. 226 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. Lexicon of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 328