Karl Eggers (SA member)

Karl August Wilhelm Eggers (born August 6, 1883 in Hanover , † March 22, 1958 in Munich ) was a German party functionary ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

Life

Early life

Eggers was the son of Heinrich Ernst Wilhelm Eggers and his wife Maria 'Marie' Magdalene Ernestine Eggers, geb. Piel. After attending school, he learned the trade of an accountant . From 1901 to 1905 he was a member of the 20th Infantry Regiment in Lindau. From his marriage to Anna Reichinger (born May 21, 1884 in Wiesenfelden) a daughter was born.

From 1914 to 1918 Eggers took part in the First World War with the Reserve Jäger Regiments 15 and 17 . During the war he was used as a platoon leader and promoted to vice sergeant. He was also awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Luitpold Order.

Career in the NSDAP

In 1919 Eggers took part in the smashing of the Munich Soviet Republic . He then belonged to the Munich military regiment. In March 1921 he joined the NSDAP for the first time ( membership number 3,958). At the same time he became one of the first members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP: On August 3, 1921, he became platoon leader of the 4th SA Hundred, which in autumn 1922 was incorporated into the SA Regiment Munich as the 6th company has been. Eggers was assigned to the 6th Company as platoon and deputy company commander. In 1922 Eggers accompanied Hitler to the Coburg meeting.

As deputy commander of the 6th company of the Munich SA regiment, Eggers took part in the Hitler putsch in Munich on November 8 and 9, 1923 in a leading position . During the march to the Feldherrnhalle at noon on November 9th, Egger's company marched at the head of the putschist platoon. After the company's failure, he was arrested and held in Neudeck near Munich until March 1924. His fellow prisoners there included Dietrich Eckart , Wilhelm Frick , Hermann Kriebel , Max Amann and Ernst Pöhner . A charge against Eggers for high treason and manslaughter - he was accused of being responsible for the shots of the putschists on the state police - failed for lack of evidence, so that he was released in the spring of 1924. In the following years he belonged to a rescue organization for the banned NSDAP.

After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in the spring of 1925, Eggers was one of the first to join the party on March 24, 1925 (membership number 27). As a party functionary, Eggers took over duties as a section leader in Munich, where he led the NSDAP local group "Inner City", which included Hitler and Wilhelm Frick . Eggers later took credit for having formally accepted Frick into the party as the local group leader. Egger's corruption as a party functionary led to numerous scandals in the late 1920s, which were widely presented by the anti-Nazi press.

In the newly founded SA Eggers made a continuous career: After belonging to various SA formations, he was accepted into the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF) ​​in 1941 and promoted to Standartenführer.

In December 1928 Eggers got a job as an administrative clerk at the Munich employment office. There he founded a National Socialist company cell in February 1932 . After 1933 Eggers was made civil servant (administrative officer) by order of Hitler and promoted to chief inspector and department head.

Promotions

• October 1, 1931: SA troop leader
• August 1, 1932: SA Sturmführer
• November 9, 1934: SA-Sturmbannführer
• 1941: Obersturmbannführer (1943 retrospectively with effect from)
• April 20, 1943: SA Standartenführer

literature

• Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925–1933: an investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic , Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56670-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth certificate of the registry office I Hanover No. 2586/1883.
2. ↑ death certificate of the registry office II Munich no. 990/1958.