Humbert Achamer-Pifrader

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HUMBERT ACHAMER-PIFRADER (* 21st November 1900 in Teplice as Hubert Victor Emanuel Pifrader , Bohemia ; † 25. April 1945 in Linz ) was an Austrian lawyer, oberführer and from September 1942 to September 1943 commander of Einsatzgruppe A .

Life

His mother was Elisabeth Pifrader (born November 5, 1872 in Veitsberg, Styria), a cook in Teplitz. At the age of fifteen, Humbert Achamer became a one-year volunteer with the Imperial and Royal Landess Rifle Regiment "Trient" No. I and was deployed on the Italian front. He was hired by Police Director Otto Steinhäusl in 1926 at the Salzburg Police Department and, after two years of military and technical training, he was taken on as a civil servant. In addition to his professional activities, he began a study of the 1930 law and political science at the University of Innsbruck and was there on July 7, 1934, doctor of law doctorate .

Achamer-Pifrader became a member of the Austrian NSDAP on November 10, 1931 ( membership number 614.104). On November 10, 1932, he was given the name Achamer-Pifrader by adoption due to a decision by the Guardianship Court in Loeben . In June 1935, because of the NSDAP ban in Austria, he fled to the German Reich , where he was immediately accepted into the service of the Bavarian Political Police . At the beginning of September 1935 he joined the SS (SS no. 275.750) and rose steadily in this Nazi organization. In April 1936 he was transferred to the Secret State Police Office in Berlin , where he worked on “Austrian Affairs”.

After the beginning of the Second World War , he became head of the Gestapo in Darmstadt in 1940 . He was promoted to SS Standartenführer in 1941 . From July 1942 on he was inspector of the Security Police and the SD based in Wiesbaden .

In September 1942 he succeeded Walter Stahlecker (until September 1942) and Heinz Jost (until September 1943) as the commander of Einsatzgruppe A , which was responsible for the mass murder of (mostly Jewish) civilians behind Army Group North . In September 1943 he handed over the command to Rudolf Panzinger . He was also the commander of the Security Police (Sipo) and the SD in Riga .

Achamer-Pifrader was promoted to SS-Oberführer on January 1, 1943, and on August 31, 1943 he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class for “excellent performance” in the “fight against bandits” (fighting partisans). Furthermore, he was awarded the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords. In September 1943 he returned to the Reich Security Main Office and became inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Berlin .

Achamer-Pifrader was involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 : After the assassination attempt, he went to the Bendler Block with two subordinates and two orderlies on behalf of the Reich Security Main Office , but was defeated by the conspirators at 5:30 p.m. Stauffenberg arrested. After the failure of the uprising, he was instrumental in the arrests and investigations by the Sipo and the SD and received the German cross in silver for this . On April 25, 1945 he died in an air raid in Linz during an inspection trip.

Achamer married Maria Hauser in 1929, born in Salzburg in 1906, with whom he had three children.

Movie

In the 2004 film Stauffenberg he is played by the cabaret artist Georg Schramm .

literature

  • Matthias Gafke: Heydrichs Ostmärker. The Austrian leadership of the Security Police and the SD 1939-1945 . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-534-26465-0 .
  • Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
  • Helmut Krausnick , Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: The troop of the Weltanschauung war. DVA, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-01987-8 .
  • A handwritten résumé from 1936 is in the Federal Archives: Handwritten résumé of Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader of January 7, 1936. SSO files of Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader (SS-No. 614 104). BArch, NS 34 / SS-Personalhauptamt.

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ In the short biography of the Province of Upper Austria he is called "Achamer".
  2. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 308.
  3. ^ A b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 309.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second, updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 10.
  5. ^ A b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 312 f.
  6. ↑ Zeittafel Walküre ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Otto John : Wrong and too late. July 20, 1944. Epilogue. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1989  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.20juli1944.de
  7. ↑ In Andreas Schulz: Generals of the Waffen-SS and Police. Volume 3, Bissendorf 2008, p. 257, FN 76, SS no. 275 750 stated. The entry date is given as September 3, 1935.
personal data
SURNAME Achamer-Pifrader, Humbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pifrader, Hubert Victor Emanuel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, SS-Oberführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplitz-Schönau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1945
Place of death Linz