Karl Maria Demelhuber

Demelhuber, as SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS ( Finland , 1942).

Karl Maria Demelhuber , nickname Karl Demelhuber (born May 27, 1896 in Freising , † March 18, 1988 in Seeshaupt ) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS .

Life

Demelhuber was a businessman by profession . Like Ernst Röhm , Oskar Dirlewanger and other, later leading National Socialists in Bavaria, he was a member of the Freikorps Epp after participating in the First World War . After he left the army in 1920, he was a salesman for a short time. He joined the Bavarian State Police at the beginning of January 1921, where he was initially employed as a platoon leader and finally as an adjutant to the Munich Police President (1933 to 1935).

Demelhuber joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4,439) on February 20, 1922, but is said not to have belonged to the party again after it was banned. After the " seizure of power " he joined the SA at the beginning of May 1934 , but switched to the SS on March 15, 1935 (SS no. 252.392), where he was taken on as SS-Obersturmbannführer . From April 1935 he was in command of the 2nd Battalion of SS Standard 1 "Germany". From October 1936 to early December 1940 he was in command of SS-Standarte 2 "Germania" .

Wilhelm Harster , Karl Maria Demelhuber, Erich Deppner and Hanns Albin Rauter (Netherlands, 1942)

After the beginning of the Second World War , members of the Germania regiment were involved in anti-Jewish pogroms and riots in the course of the attack on Poland . From November 25, 1940 to April 24, 1941 he was in command of the Waffen-SS Ost in the Generalgouvernement . After briefly commanding the 1st SS Infantry Brigade (motorized), from May 15, 1941 to April 20, 1942, he was in command of the SS division "North" in Finland . After that he was in command of the Waffen SS Netherlands. Demelhuber was a participant in the group leader conference on October 4, 1943 in Posen , at which Heinrich Himmler gave the first speech in Poznan . From January 15 to April 1945 commander of the XVI. SS Army Corps in Pomerania . At the end of the war he was Himmler's representative in the SS command staff on the Baltic Sea coast.

After the end of the war, he was taken prisoner in Schleswig-Holstein on May 16, 1945, and from there to the Neuengamme prisoner-of-war camp . It was investigated whether SS-Standarte 2 “Germania” was involved in war crimes under his leadership . On May 17, 1948 Demelhuber was released from internment.

In the 1950s Demelhuber was a member of the mutual aid community of the members of the former Waffen SS (HIAG). In 1955 he was President of the HIAG Court of Arbitration; At the end of the 1950s he left the HIAG in a dispute with the federal spokesman Kurt Meyer .

Awards

Demelhuber's SS ranks
date	rank
March 15, 1935	SS-Obersturmbannführer
October 1, 1936	SS standard leader
January 30, 1940	SS-Oberführer
November 9, 1941	SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS
April 20, 1942	SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS
June 21, 1944	SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS

Some of the awards given to him were:

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Wound badge (1918) in black
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class with swords
German silver cross on November 9, 1943

Finnish Order of the Cross of Freedom

literature

Helmut Heiber , David M. Glantz : Hitler and his Generals. Military Conferences 1942–1945. Enigma Books, New York, NY, 2004 ISBN 1-929631-28-6 .

Web links

SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Karl-Maria Demelhuber. Retrieved October 22, 2017 (English).
Karl-Maria Demelhuber on www.dws-xip.pl (short biography in Polish)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 104.
^ ^A ^b Stefan Klemp: Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim. The history of a manhunt , Prospero Verlag, Münster / Berlin 2010, p. 53ff.
^ SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Karl-Maria Demelhuber. Retrieved October 22, 2017 (English).
↑ Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 63, 75 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).
↑ Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 539.

personal data
SURNAME	Demelhuber, Karl Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Demelhuber, Carl Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German general of the Waffen-SS and SS-Obergruppenführer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freising
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1988
Place of death	Seeshaupt

[Klee104-1] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 104.

[Klemp53ff-2] A ^b Stefan Klemp: Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim. The history of a manhunt , Prospero Verlag, Münster / Berlin 2010, p. 53ff.

[Camp11-3] SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Karl-Maria Demelhuber. Retrieved October 22, 2017 (English).

[4] Karsten Wilke: The mutual aid community (HIAG) 1950–1990. Veterans of the Waffen SS in the Federal Republic . Schöningh, Paderborn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0 , p. 63, 75 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University, 2010).

[5] Klaus D. Patzwall , Veit Scherzer : The German Cross 1941-1945. History and owner. Volume II. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X , p. 539.