Johann Baptist Fuchs

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Johann Baptist Fuchs , called Hans (born June 8, 1877 in Regensburg ; † November 18, 1938 in Munich ) was a German officer , police officer and SA leader , most recently with the rank of Obergruppenführer.

Life

Fuchs, the son of a railway employee, attended a humanistic high school and completed his school career with a high school diploma . He then attended war school in Munich and from 1899 served as a career officer in the 17th Infantry Regiment "Orff" of the Bavarian Army . From 1914 he took part in the First World War as a captain and was with a Prussian and several Bavarian units during the war. a. as battalion commander and finally as general staff officer. After the end of the war, he was highly decorated as chief of staff in the Bamberg Freikorps and battalion commander in the Munich military regiment .

With the rank of major , he was dismissed from military service in the fall of 1919. At the beginning of October 1919, Fuchs joined the state police force in Bavaria, which later became the Bavarian State Police , where he was employed as chief of staff until February 1923. After that, he was a police major until November 1923 as a consultant at the Section Commands II and III of the Munich State Police. In mid-November 1923 he switched to the command of the Ansbach State Police and resigned from the police service at the end of October 1925 because he was unfit for duty. He also studied law and political science at the University of Munich from 1923 to 1925 . He then worked as an independent businessman until 1931.

Fuchs, who had already participated in the Hitler putsch in November 1923 , joined the NSDAP in February 1931 ( membership number 411.570). At the same time he became a member of the SA in the rank of group leader and full-time SA leader in the staff of the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF), where he headed the quartermaster staff until mid-March 1933. In addition, from February 1933 to March 1933 he headed the SA group Hochland in Munich. From mid-March 1933 to the end of December 1933 he was employed at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior as a special commissioner for the auxiliary police. Fuchs, who had rejoined the Bavarian State Police at the beginning of April 1933 with the rank of Police Colonel, worked for the OSAF as a special commissioner for the Bavarian Security Police at the State Ministry of the Interior from the beginning of May 1933 to the end of August 1933. After leaving the police force in early September 1933, he served as OSAF special commissioner for Bavaria until November 1934. Since November 9, 1933, he held the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer. From the beginning of May 1935 he was OSAF representative for settlements at the staff of the Deputy Leader and from May 1937 belonged to the SA leader corps.

literature

  • Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky 2004, ISBN 978-0-8131-9098-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington 2004, p. 100f
  2. ↑ a b Fuchs, Johann Baptist in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, policeman and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1938
Place of death Munich