Johann Schmer
Johann Schmer (born January 30, 1891 in Weißenberg , Amberg district, † September 15, 1971 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg ) was a German criminal and Gestapo officer.
Life
Schmer was a shoemaker by trade. He took part in the First World War and after the end of the war in 1919 he took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . He entered the police force in 1921.
time of the nationalsocialism
In the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . In 1933 he switched to the Bavarian Political Police . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938 he took part in a deployment of the security police, as well as in October 1938 after the Munich Agreement in the Sudetenland .
Second World War
After the German invasion of Poland at the beginning of the Second World War , Schmer was a part of the commando leader in a task force . During the German occupation of Poland , from November 1939 to December 1941, he was head of the Gestapo in the Lublin district of the so-called Generalgouvernement at the commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) Lublin and from August to December 1941 there in personal union as KdS. In this function he was responsible for the collection of the Jewish civil status registers and corresponding documents, which were forwarded to the "Central Office for Jewish Civil Status Registers" at the Reichssippenamt in Berlin.
He then worked until January 1944 as the head of the Gestapo with the commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in the Generalgouvernement. Schmer, a member of the SS since 1940 , rose to the position of Sturmbannführer in the SS in 1944 and was appointed Kriminalrat that year.
After 1945
After the end of the war, Schmer was not re-used by the police and lived as a senior detective. D. in Sulzbach-Rosenberg. Several preliminary investigations against him have been closed.
literature
- Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus : Task Force Groups in Poland: Presentation and Documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 . (Volume 12 of the publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart.)
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Joachim Schröder: The Munich Police and National Socialism, Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3837509960 [with photo by Johann Schmer]
Web links
- Paul Hoser: Schutzstaffel (SS), 1925-1945 . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Federal Archives , Institute for Contemporary History , Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and Chair for the History of East Central Europe at the Free University of Berlin : The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 : Poland September 1939 - July 1941 , Volume 4, edited by Klaus-Peter Friedrich. 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4 , p. 393, fn. 2
- ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 24
- ↑ VEJ 4/168 in: Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 4: Poland - September 1939-July 1941 , Munich 2011, ISBN 978- 3-486-58525-4 , p. 393.
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 543
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmer, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German criminal and Gestapo officers as well as members of the Einsatzgruppen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th September 1971 |
| Place of death | Sulzbach-Rosenberg |