Julius Schreck

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Julius Schreck (born July 13, 1898 in Munich ; † May 16, 1936 there ) was a German Nazi and SS functionary. He was the driver and bodyguard of Adolf Hitler and is generally considered the father of the SS .

Life

Schreck was a son of the businessman Julius Schreck and his wife Magdalena, nee. Prem.

After the end of the First World War, Julius Schreck was a member of various free corps units , including the Erhardt Brigade . On October 5, 1921, Schreck joined the NSDAP. From January 1, 1922 to January 15, 1923 he was a clerk in the NSDAP party office in Munich's Corneliusstrasse.

In May 1923, Schreck moved to the newly established office of the Sturmabteilung in Munich's Schellingstrasse, where he worked under Hermann Göring.

After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in 1925, he rejoined it, receiving the prestigiously low membership number 53.

From January 1923, Schreck built up the Dachau and Munich SA with his free corps unit . In April of the same year the Freikorps units withdrew from the party; Schreck, however, remained with a few followers in this one. There, at Hitler's request, he recruited Adolf Hitler's raiding party  - a forerunner organization of the later SS , which originally consisted of eight volunteer corps members who had tried their hand at street fighting. These original members were Joseph Berchtold , Ulrich Graf , Emil Maurice , Christian Weber , Josef Dietrich , Rudolf Heß , Jakob Grimminger and Walter Buch .

The raid troop initially only served the personal protection of Hitler. Later, local party organizations also received such staff guards , which were founded on April 1, 1925 in the course of the re-admission of the NSDAP on February 17, 1925 as hall protection [SS]. On November 9, 1925, the staff guards were renamed Schutzstaffeln .

The uniform of the raiding party was very similar to that of the SA . The only clear difference was the black ski hats with the skull badge, the symbol that was later used in the various SS units . Schreck had taken over this from the Ehrhardt Brigade .

With this, Schreck laid the foundation stone for the later protection squadron of the NSDAP. From 1925 to 1926 he was officially Oberleiter of the SS , from which a year later the position of Reichsstaffelführer ("Reichs-SS-Führer") emerged.

Within the SS, Schreck was appointed SS-Sturmführer on August 3, 1932, and SS-Sturmhauptführer on November 9 of the same year . His appointment as SS-Sturmbannführer took place on January 30, 1933 and that of SS-Standartenführer on March 21 of the same year. On January 30, 1934, he was appointed SS-Oberführer . Politically, Schreck only played a subordinate and de facto insignificant role after 1933 , since the SS ' first list of seniority only identified him as a member of the Führer Escort Command . The second list of seniority showed him after his appointment as SS-Brigadführer , which was carried out on January 1, 1935, “z. b. V. RFSS ”, for the special use of the Reichsführer SS.

In 1936 Julius Schreck fell ill with meningitis , which he eventually succumbed to. Adolf Hitler made sure that Schreck received a state funeral. His successor as Hitler's driver was Erich Kempka .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archive Munich: Police Directorate Munich No. 6712: Schreck interrogation of January 5, 1924 (digitized version) .
  2. ↑ a b c Personnel Department of the Reichsführer-SS: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel , as of October 1, 1934, serial no.69
  3. ↑ Personnel Chancellery of the Reichsführer-SS: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel , as of July 1, 1935, serial no. 52
personal data
SURNAME Scare, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NS and SS functionary
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1936
Place of death Munich