Karl-Heinz Bürger

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Karl-Heinz Bürger (born February 16, 1904 in Güstrow , † December 2, 1988 in Karlsbad ) was a German SS-Oberführer , Colonel of the Police and SS and Police Leader (SSPF).

Life

Karl-Heinz Bürger was the son of a master baker from Güstrow in Mecklenburg and attended secondary school. He took part in the Hitler putsch on November 9, 1923 . From 1924 to 1925 he began training as a pilot, which he did not finish. He broke off studying law after failing the first state examination in law. From 1928 he completed a teaching degree at the universities of Munich , Hamburg and Rostock . Bürger completed his studies and was briefly employed as a primary school teacher in Schwerin and then became politically active. He rejoined the NSDAP ( membership number 68.902) after the party was banned, became a member of the SA again in 1928, and from 1930 belonged to the NS teachers' association and the HJ . He took on leading positions for the party in Mecklenburg and was considered an old fighter . While he was still working as a primary school teacher, he built up the Nazi teachers' association in Mecklenburg and also acted as Gaufführer of the HJ in Mecklenburg-Lübeck. From 1932 he was a member of the Mecklenburg state parliament. Also in 1932 he worked again as an elementary school teacher for a few months and then headed the Warin Farmers' College for two years. From 1933 he was a member of the SS (membership number 156.309).

Karl-Heinz Bürger entered the service of the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) in 1935 and became a training officer for the northern section. From 1936 he was the race officer north of the RuSHA and from 1938 senior section trainer. From November 1938 to March 1940 he was on the staff of the SS Junkerschule Braunschweig and worked there as a teacher for ideological training. By Joachim Caesar Bürger was transferred to the SS main office and became his deputy. While Caesar was drafted into the Waffen SS from May to October 1940 , Bürger provisionally headed the training office. From November 1940 to April 1941 the staff belonged to the office of SS-Obergruppenführer August Heissmeyer and headed the Office of Education and Science during this period . Then he came to the Einsatzstab Reichsführer SS , where he took over Department VI - ideological education, military policy training and troop support .

Due to alcohol abuse , he was transferred to the Waffen SS , more precisely to the Replacement Battalion East on the East Front . From the end of August 1942 he was designated as SS and Police Leader North Caucasus and then became SSPF Avdejewka in October 1942 and was deployed to fight partisans in Volhynia . From the beginning of December 1943 until the end of the occupation of Italy, he was SSPF in central Italy. On May 13, 1945, he fell into Bolzano in captivity .

He returned to Ibbenbüren from being a prisoner of war for several years and was again working as a primary school teacher. Bürger died in Karlovy Vary in December 1988.

Awards

Citizen's SS ranks
date rank
1936 SS-Obersturmführer
September 1936 SS-Hauptsturmführer
April 1937 SS-Sturmbannführer
September 1942 SS Standartenführer and Colonel of the Police
April 1944 SS-Oberführer

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Hans-Christian Harten: Himmler's teacher. The ideological training in the SS 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-76644-1 .

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ^ A b Hans-Christian Harten: Himmler's teacher. The ideological training in the SS 1933–1945 , Paderborn 2014, p. 544
  2. ↑ See the first , second , third and fourth registration of Karl-Heinz Bürger in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Hans-Christian Harten: Himmler's teacher. The ideological training in the SS 1933–1945 , Paderborn 2014, p. 118
personal data
SURNAME Citizen, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS and police leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1988
Place of death Carlsbad