Karl Puetz

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Announcement by the commander of the security police in Lublin and the SD Pütz about the execution of 60 Polish hostages on July 4, 1944

Karl Pütz (born February 7, 1911 in Aachen , † May 6, 1945 in St. Märgen ) was a German lawyer, police officer and SS leader during the Nazi era . Pütz was responsible for numerous mass murders of Jews.

Life

After High School in Aachen in 1929 Karl Puetz studied law in Freiburg and Cologne and received his doctorate for Dr. jur. In Freiburg he became a member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg in the CV . He first worked in Aachen as a court trainee. Since 1929 he was active in the ethnic German movement of the East Belgian cantons of Eupen-Malmedy . Between 1934 and 1936 he formed Nazi youth groups there.

In 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,094,496). In the SS he was a member 353,220 and reached the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer there in 1944 (according to seniority list as of October 1, 1944, Berlin 1944).

Karl Pütz became an employee of the Aachen state police station ; November 1937 he headed Department II, on August 31, 1938 he, meanwhile a government assessor, was entrusted with the permanent representation of the head.

Pütz became the personal advisor to Hans Nockemann , who was head of the Gestapo in Aachen from 1933 and then in Koblenz.

During the Second World War , he was city commander in Sdolbuniw from 1941 , then commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) from February 1942 to October 1943 in Rovno , from October 1943 to July 1944 in Lublin , from August 1944 in Poznan .

In June 1942, Karl Pütz had 5,000 Jews shot in Rowno. Witness to the crime was the German engineer Fritz Gränke , who testified in the Nuremberg trials after the war . On October 12 and 13, 1942, Pütz ordered the murder of 1,700 Jews in Misocz near Rovno. As part of Aktion Reinhardt , he led mass shootings in the Majdanek concentration camp in 1943 during the harvest festival .

After Himmler had removed the "Inspector and Commander Southwest of the Security Police and the SD", Erich Isselhorst , from his position as Commander in Chief Southwest in December 1944 , because of the flight from Strasbourg, Pütz was his successor based in Baden-Baden.

When the war ended he committed in St. Märgen in the Black Forest suicide .

literature

  • Douglas K. Hunecke: The Moses of Rowno. The stiring story of Fritz Graebe, a German Christian who risked his life to lead hundres of jews to safety during the holocaust. New York 1985
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Manfred Kutsch: US author on the trail of a war criminal from Aachen , in: Aachener Volkszeitung, August 4, 1993
  • Dieter Pohl: From "Jewish Policy" to the Murder of Jews. The District of the General Government 1939-1944. Lang, Frankfurt 1993
  • Gerald Reitlinger: The final solution. Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939-1945. 7th edition, Berlin 1992
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

swell

  • Main State Archives Düsseldorf: Government of Aachen 20126
  • Main State Archive Düsseldorf: RW 35-10 State Police Office Aachen
  • Federal Archives Ludwigsburg (formerly "Central Office of the State Judicial Authorities"), Karl Pütz investigation files
  • Bruno Kartheuser: Subversion nazie et action secrete. L'encadrement nazi et allemand des cantons de l'est de la Belgique . in: Annexion et nazification en Europe. Actes du colloque de Metz, 7th - 8th November 2003, Université de Metz Colloque de Metz
  • Frank Flechtmann: "If the Gauleitung has their carpets carried into the bunker, fliers come" - SD reports in an idyll [At the end of the war in 1944/45 in Strasbourg and Allerheiligen; "Gau Baden / Elsaß"], in: Die Ortenau, publications of the historical association for Mittelbaden, 75th annual volume, Offenburg 1995, pp. 477-514 (here: 486, 511)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ACADEMIA - magazine of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations, Issue 1 - 2020, p. 50.
  2. ↑ Frank Flechtmann: "When the Gauleitung has their carpets carried into the bunker, fliers come" - SD reports in an idyll . In: The Ortenau . Publications of the Historical Association for Central Baden. 75th annual volume. Offenburg 1995, p. 485 f .
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 618.
personal data
SURNAME Pütz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, policeman, SS leader and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1945
Place of death St. Märgen