Karl-Heinz Rux

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Karl-Heinz Rux (born September 3, 1907 in Bromberg ; † May 8, 1945 in Vellach ) was a German lawyer and SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Gestapo .

Life

As the son of an engineer who came from a traditional pottery family from Bromberg and Thorn , he attended the Protestant city school and the grammar school in Deutsch Krone . He then studied law in Jena from 1926 to 1927. There he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity in 1926 . He continued his studies from 1927 to 1930 in Cologne and Bonn, taking the first state examination at the Cologne Higher Regional Court . Further legal training levels followed at authorities and courts in Deutsch Krone, Berlin, Marienwerder and Schneidemühl . Politically, he oriented himself towards the National Socialists in 1932, became a member of the NS officials' work group in Schneidemühl, joined the NSDAP in 1933 ( member no.1444.292) and the SS (no.231.696) and also became a member of the security service (SD ).

In 1935, after passing the great state law examination, he was appointed court assessor . As SS-Untersturmführer he was first deployed to the SD-Leitabschnitt Danzig . He had been a member of the Gestapo since September 1, 1935. For the next two years he worked in the state police headquarters in Münster / Westphalia, Königsberg and Elbing . A transfer to the Reich Security Main Office followed . He was promoted to government assessor in 1937 and to government councilor in 1938.

After the " Anschluss " of Austria, he built the Security Police (SiPo) in Salzburg in 1938 as SS-Sturmbannführer and head of the local Gestapo. After the outbreak of World War II , under SS-Standartenführer Emanuel Schäfer , he took over command of Einsatzkommando 2 in German-occupied Poland within Einsatzgruppe II . This task force was set up in August 1939, operated under the 10th Army and disbanded on November 20, 1939. Rux took part in several special missions. After the disbandment, the troops of his task force were handed over to the commander of the SD and SD Lublin .

Afterwards he built the state police station in Bromberg as head of the security police and was appointed to the senior government council. Other subordinate SD agencies were in Thorn, Tuchel and other cities. In 1942 he achieved his highest SS rank when he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer. In the following year he also took over the management of the state police station in Graudenz .

He was sent to Yugoslavia in 1944 to take part in the fight against partisans in the Oberkrain area . He took over command of the security service in Veldes . While on a business trip, he suffered serious wounds in an attack by partisans.

When the German troops had to withdraw from Yugoslavia, he was captured by the British. Fearing to be delivered to the partisans, he committed in 1945 in Vellach on May 8 suicide .

SS ranks

  • April 20, 1938: SS Untersturmführer
  • August 1, 1938: SS-Obersturmführer
  • November 1, 1938: SS-Hauptsturmführer
  • November 9, 1938: SS-Sturmbannführer
  • November 9, 1942: SS-Obersturmbannführer

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Rux, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS-Obersturmbannführer with the Gestapo
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1945
Place of death Vellach