Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig

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November 1943: The Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini greets Bosnian volunteers. SS-Brigadführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig (right).

Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig (born September 1, 1899 in Wissek ; † October 20, 1946 in the Neuengamme camp ) was a German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS .

Life

Sauberzweig took part in the First World War, lost an eye and was awarded the Iron Cross II and I Class and the Wound Badge in black.

After the end of the war he was accepted into the Reichswehr , where he held the rank of first lieutenant from April 1, 1925 . He served in the 4th ( MG ) company of the 8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment .

During the Second World War , from April 1940 to August 1941, Sauberzweig was first general staff officer of the XI. Army Corps , then until January 1942 commander of the 466 infantry regiment and then the 306 infantry regiment. On February 1, 1942, he was promoted to colonel and transferred to the Führer Reserve . From May to November 1942 he then acted as commander of a supplementary infantry regiment and on December 1, 1942 was appointed chief of the staff of the inspection of the education system at the OKH . Out of annoyance not to get a more important post, Sauberzweig joined the Waffen SS on August 1, 1943. Promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS, he became commander of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Handschar" (Croatian No. 1) , and later he was head of the SS leadership main office . In August 1944 he presented the XIII. SS Army Corps . After violent arguments with Heinrich Himmler in autumn 1944, he was removed from his post and imprisoned until the end of the year. In January 1945, Sauberzweig resigned as a lieutenant general in the army of the Wehrmacht .

As Sauberzweig in British captivity in the camp Neuengamme extradition to Yugoslavia threatened he committed in 1946 on 20 October suicide .

family

The German cultural politician Dieter Sauberzweig was his son.

literature

  • George Lepre: Himmler's Bosnian Division; The Waffen-SS Handschar Division 1943-1945 1997, ISBN 0-7643-0134-9 .
  • Enver Redzic: Muslimansko Autonomastvo I 13th SS Divizija . Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1987.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhard Stumpf: The Wehrmacht Elite Structure of rank and origin of the German generals and admirals 1933–1945. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1982, ISBN 3-7646-1815-9 , p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Sauberzweig, Karl-Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, lieutenant general of the Waffen SS
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wissek
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1946
Place of death Neuengamme warehouse