Julian Scherner
Julian Scherner (born September 23, 1895 in Bagamoyo , German East Africa , † April 28, 1945 in Niepołomice , Poland) was a German SS-Oberführer and as SS and police leader in Krakow .
Life
Born in German East Africa , Scherner attended a cadet school in Germany from 1905 to 1914 and served in the army from 1914 . After leaving the military in 1920, he became an employee and joined the Bund Oberland . He took part in the 1923 Hitler-Ludendorff putsch . In 1932 he joined the SS (membership number 39,492) and the NSDAP (membership number 865,027). In 1937 he took over the management of the SS leadership school in Dachau . From September 1939 to November 11, 1939, Scherner was regimental commander of SS-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 11 "Reinhard Heydrich" . From summer to winter 1940 he was in command of the 8th Skull Standard . From January to September 1941, as SS site commander of Prague , Scherner led the preparations for the construction of the SS military training area at Beneschau . In August 1941 he was appointed SS Police Leader in Krakow . As such, he was responsible for the deportations to Belzec and the mass shootings in Tarnów . He dissolved the ghettos in his district by deporting them to Auschwitz . Scherner was transferred to Dachau in April 1944 and demoted in October 1944 after being convicted by an SS honorary court and transferred to the Dirlewanger regiment for probation at the front . He was found dead in a wooded area shortly before the end of the war .
Promotions
- Untersturmführer: July 31, 1933
- Obersturmführer: December 24, 1933
- Hauptsturmführer: March 1, 1934
- Sturmbannführer: August 12, 1934
- Obersturmbannführer: January 1, 1935
- Standartenführer: January 30, 1936
- Oberführer (W): September 12, 1937
Awards
- Iron Cross 2nd class 1914
- Wound badge (1918) in black
- War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords
- Blood order
- Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
- SS skull ring
literature
- Eberhard Jäckel , Peter Longerich , Julius H. Schoeps (eds.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. The persecution and murder of the European Jews. Volume 3: SA - Cyprus. Argon, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87024-303-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Julian Scherner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherner, Julian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Officer of the SS |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bagamoyo , German East Africa , today Tanzania |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1945 |
| Place of death | Niepołomice , Poland |