Jakob Beck (police officer)

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Jakob Beck (born August 14, 1889 ; † after 1944) was a German police officer and SS leader.

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After primary school Beck attended high school in Regensburg and finished his school career in 1911 with the Abitur . From 1912 he studied law and completed his studies in April 1915 after an interruption due to the war.

From the beginning of October 1914 he took part in the First World War, where he was first assigned to the replacement machine gun company of the 11th Bavarian Infantry Regiment and from May 1915 to the mountain machine gun division 209. A war injury sustained in July 1916 was followed by a hospital stay of over a year. From August 1917 until the end of the war he was a departmental advisor for deferrals at the Deputy General Command of the First Bavarian. Army Corps in Munich . After the end of the war, he was briefly with the Freikorps Regensburg in the spring of 1919 and also completed his legal clerkship until 1921, after which he passed his second state examination in June 1921.

On December 15, 1921, Beck joined the Bavarian civil service as a government assessor, where he was initially employed by the police and from the beginning of November 1923 he was a district official in Grafenau . On August 1, 1930 he joined the rank of a government council for Munich police headquarters, where he deputy head of the political police was.

A few weeks after the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler called the Bavarian Political Police (BPP) into being, a special police force to fight political opponents of the Nazi state in southwest Germany. Beck was accepted into the BPP together with other employees from Department VI such as Heinrich Müller and Reinhard Flesch . He was one of the first employees of the BPP and took the second highest rank as deputy of the BPP boss Reinhard Heydrich .

On July 1, 1933 Becks was promoted to government councilor first class, and later he was appointed senior government councilor. On August 20, 1933, he was accepted into the SS and SD (membership number 36.204), in which he was promoted in rapid succession to Sturmführer (October 1, 1933), Hauptsturmführer (April 20, 1934) and Sturmbannführer (July 4, 1934) has been.

After Reinhard Heydrich was appointed head of the Secret State Police Office in Berlin in April 1934, Beck became the new head of the BPP, an office he held until February 1935. During his tenure in the Munich area in the early summer of 1934 he was involved in the organization of the wave of political arrests known as the Röhm Putsch and in coordinating the measures taken by the Nazi state against the emigrated writer Thomas Mann , such as the confiscation of Mann's bank accounts and the Correspondence regarding his expatriation. At the BPP, later renamed the State Police Control Center in Munich , he worked as a department head and deputy head until the beginning of July 1941.

From August 7, 1940 to July 1, 1941 Beck also served as an inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Munich. In the SS, Beck, who from the beginning of May 1933 was also a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,941,480), rose to SS-Standartenführer during the war . From the beginning of July 1941 he was initially acting and from January 1943 officially police chief in Zwickau and held this office until the end of the war.

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literature

  • Paul Egon Hübinger: Thomas Mann, the University of Bonn and Contemporary History , 1974, p. 413.
  • Andreas Seeger: "Gestapo Müller". The Career of a Desk Abuser , 1996.

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SURNAME Beck, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1889
DATE OF DEATH 20th century