Karl Sattler (SS member)

Karl Sattler

Karl Sattler , also Carl Sattler , (born October 6, 1891 in Lippstadt ; † April 20, 1958 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SS-Obersturmbannführer . He was a member of the Reichstag from November 1933 to 1936 .

Early years

Sattler attended elementary school and the secondary school in Lippstadt. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Kassel , where he also attended the commercial college. He then worked as a commercial clerk in Hanover , later also in Dortmund Hamm and finally back in his hometown. From August 2, 1914, he was a war volunteer with the 1st Sailor Artillery Department, but was transferred a short time later to the 2nd Sea Battalion ( Wilhelmshaven ). From September 26, 1914, he was employed at the front with the 1st Sailor Regiment (Flanders) until he took part in a reserve officer aspirant course of the Imperial Navy in Munsterlager in the middle of 1915 . After the course he was back in the troops as Vice Sergeant and later became platoon leader of the 6th Company of the 1st Sailor Regiment. On July 13, 1916, he was promoted to lieutenant. R. and led a pioneer platoon in the sailors' regiment from July 1916 to April 1917. Then he was company commander of the 1st Assault Company of the Marine Corps until December 1918 .

Until the Reichstag mandate

From 1919, Sattler worked as an independent sales representative and later became the owner of a hardware store in Hanover. From 1919 to 1928 he was a member of the Young German Order . In December 1928, Sattler co-founded the local NSDAP group in Lippstadt, but did not join the party ( membership number 241.993) until December 18, 1929. From 1929 to 1930 he was the deputy local group leader in Lippstadt. On January 1, 1930, Sattler became a member of the SA , where he became SA troop leader within a year. On November 15, 1931, he left the SA and became a member of the SS (SS No. 19,474). In April 1932 he was appointed SS-Sturmführer and at the same time charged with the management of SS-Sturmbann IV / 30. In September 1932 he became SS-Sturmhauptführer and gave up the leadership of the Sturmbann again, but took it over again on October 17, 1932 until he gave up again at the end of 1933. From March 1933 to June 1933, Sattler was the NSDAP's liaison leader at the district administrator in Lippstadt, and from June 1, 1933 until March 1934, he worked as a police commissioner in Lippstadt , where he lived at Adolf-Hitler-Strasse 43. In November 1933, Sattler ran on the nomination for the NSDAP in place number 664 in the election to the German Reichstag on November 12, 1933 and entered the National Socialist Reichstag . He was a member of the Reichstag for an electoral term until 1936.

Service in the SS

From December 1933, Sattler was the leader of the 30th SS Standard (Bochum). On March 16, 1934 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer. After he gave up the leadership of the SS standard in January 1935, he took over the leadership of SS Section IV in Hanover. During this time he had received a severe reprimand on February 10, 1935 for behavior that was harmful to the SS, which is why he was removed from the leadership on June 20, 1935 for "unsuitability" of the service. Until the end of October 1935 he was then SS leader zV in SS Section IV and then SS leader in SS Section XXV (Dortmund). There he was released from the SS on August 16, 1936. On July 1, 1937, he was re-accepted into the SS under his old membership number as SS-Oberführer and until October 1, 1938, he served as SS leader in SS District 69 in Hagen / Westphalia. Then he was with the staff of the RuSHA until the end of the war . On January 8, 1940, Sattler was drafted into the Waffen SS as SS-Obersturmbannführer . He was on the staff of the 10th SS-Totenkopf Standard and led the SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Ersatzbataillon II from March 1940 to July 1941. For a few weeks he was still the leader of the SS-Infantry Regiment 10 until he was born on 21. October 1941 because of repeated drunkenness on duty. He was transferred to the Führerreserve at the SS Leadership Main Office. On January 29, 1943, proceedings were initiated against him on charges of mutilating himself. On the following March 17th, he was transferred to the staff of the Higher SS and Police Leader in South Russia , where he was responsible for fighting gangs . In May 1944 he was transferred to the SS Personnel Main Office and in September 1944 to the RSHA . A month later he switched back to the main personnel office, where he worked until the end of the war.

After the war he worked as a businessman in his hometown Lippstadt, where he died in 1958.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Karl Sattler in the database of members of the Reichstag