Joachim Stach

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Joachim Stach (* 8. August 1896 in Poznan , † 2. May 1945 ) was a German SS officer and colonel of the police to the Nazi era .

After the end of his school career, Stach took part in the First World War as a soldier and worked for the Eastern Border Guard until 1920 . In 1921 Stach joined the police force. Stach joined the NSDAP in 1930 ( membership number 466.369) and the SS in 1940 (SS number 357.221). With the SS, Stach rose to SS-Standartenführer in August 1942 .

After the outbreak of World War II , he changed from his post as commander of the police force in Gdansk in the autumn of 1941 to the general government , where he was commander of the police in the district of Galicia . Stach, who repeatedly refused to leave the church, tried to keep his law enforcement officers out of the shooting of Jews .

At the beginning of June 1942, he moved to the main office of the Ordnungspolizei and worked there in the personnel department. Stach died in combat operations in the last days of the Second World War.

literature

  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 .
  • Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941-1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer 16048). 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. , Munich 1997, pp. 420f.
  2. ↑ Joachim Stach at www.dws-xip.pl
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 593.
  4. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. , Munich 1997, pp. 90, 206f.
personal data
SURNAME Stach, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1945