Jakob Sporrenberg

Jakob Sporrenberg

Jakob Sporrenberg (born September 16, 1902 in Düsseldorf , † December 6, 1952 in Warsaw ) was a German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police and a member of the Reichstag who was executed in Poland as a war criminal .

Life

Jakob Sporrenberg was the son of a gardener and the younger brother of Paul Sporrenberg . From 1908 to 1919 he attended elementary school and a further education school in Düsseldorf, from April 1916 to November 1918 he also completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Opel . From 1919 to 1921 he served as a volunteer with the Border Guard East and other associations. In the spring of 1921 he worked as a valve fitter for a short time at Rheinmetall from 1921 to 1929 at the Telegraph Construction Office in Düsseldorf. He was then unemployed.

Sporrenberg participated in the Kapp Putsch in 1920 . In 1921 he joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . From there he switched to the NSDAP in 1922 . He was arrested during the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 for “secret bundling” and sentenced by a French court martial in 1924 to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 gold marks, but was released again in August 1925. While in prison, he joined the Schlageter Memorial Association. After the party was banned , he rejoined the NSDAP at the end of 1925 ( membership number 25,585) and reactivated his SA membership shortly before. In Düsseldorf he was involved in building up the party's local group, where he became district leader and 1929/30 provisional HJ area leader . On October 1, 1930, he moved from the SA to the SS (SS No. 3.809), where he initially worked as a part-time and from November 1932 full-time SS leader in Düsseldorf.

From March 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of the NSDAP . In the Reichstag, Sporrenberg first represented constituency 22 (Düsseldorf-Ost), then from 1936 constituency 13 (Schleswig-Holstein) and finally from 1938 constituency 1 (East Prussia). He was also the Prussian Provincial Councilor for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1935/36.

From November 1933 to September 1936 he was in charge of SS Section XX (Kiel) and the SS barracks in Kiel. In the meantime he was promoted to SS-Brigadführer at the end of January 1936. Then he was entrusted with the management of the SD upper section north-east (Königsberg) and from September 1938 was also inspector of the security police and the SD (IdS) in Königsberg .

After the beginning of the Second World War Sporrenberg was from the beginning of October 1939 to mid-June 1940 Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) "Rhine" and was promoted to SS group leader in early January 1940. After that he was HSSPF "Northeast" until May 1941. From July to August 1941 Sporrenberg was briefly SSPF Belarus and then commanded as Reich Commissioner for the Reich Commissioner for Ukraine Erich Koch . In July 1943 he was promoted to lieutenant general of the police. As the successor to Odilo Globocnik , he was SSPF in Lublin from August 1943 to November 1944 . There he organized the harvest festival , during which over 43,000 Jews were murdered. From November 21, 1944 to May 1945, he was SSPF Southern Norway . On May 11, 1945 he was captured there and extradited to Poland . A Polish court sentenced him in 1950 because of the planning and participation in the Operation Harvest Festival to death . On 6 December 1952 he was in Warsaw by the strand executed .

He was married and had three children.

Awards

• Medal in memory of March 13, 1938
• Medal in memory of October 1, 1938
• Golden party badge of the NSDAP
• Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class
• War Merit Cross (1939) with swords 2nd and 1st class
• Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
• SS skull ring

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 (updated 2nd edition).
• Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .

Web links

• Jakob Sporrenberg in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Entry on Jakob Sporrenberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Biography in key points

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 592.
2. ↑ Jakob Sporrenberg in the database of members of the Reichstag.
3. ↑ Cf. Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Düsseldorf 1986, p. 346 f.