Karl Otto von Salisch

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Karl Otto Moritz Feodor Georg von Salisch (born November 28, 1902 in Glogau , † January 31, 1945 in Danzig ) was a German police officer and SS-Standartenführer .

Life

He came from the old Silesian noble family von Salisch and was the son of the Prussian lieutenant colonel Georg von Salisch (1871–1937) and his wife Marie, born von Strantz (1874–1963). Salisch married Gerda Mewes (1913–2000) in Berlin on August 30, 1933 . The couple had two children.

From 1942 to 1945 Salisch served as police chief of Bromberg . In Department VI A (General Foreign Intelligence Service Tasks) of Office VI (SD Abroad) of the Reich Security Main Office , he was Commissioner III (East) for the SD sections Danzig , Königsberg , Allenstein , Tilsit , Thorn , Posen , Hohensalza , Litzmannstadt , Breslau , Liegnitz , Opole , Katowice , Troppau and the Generalgouvernement .

After Salisch from his command area from the approaching in January Soviet had withdrawn troops, he was on the orders of Heinrich Himmler or following a ruling by Steinacher (?) That Himmler confirmed on 31 January 1945 in the courtyard of the Danzig Gestapo by a Erschießungspeloton , who was under the orders of Criminal Secretary Reinhold Bruchardt, shot for "cowardice".

Salisch had the NSDAP membership number 4,303,047 and the SS number 276,287.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A. Volume XXVII, p. 562, Volume 132 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0832-9 . - Lt. GHdA from 2003, he was SS-Hauptsturmführer. But the rank of SS-Standartenführer is evidenced by an order from Stuckart to the highest Reich authorities on February 1, 1945.
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. A XXVII (2003)
  3. ↑ Julius Mader: The bandit treasure. P. 341, Deutscher Militärverlag, 1965 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Salisch, Karl Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salisch, Karl Otto Moritz Feodor Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and SS-Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1945
Place of death Danzig