Karl d'Angelo

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Karl Heinrich d'Angelo (born September 9, 1890 in Osthofen , Rheinhessen ; † March 20, 1945 , probably in Gernsheim ) was a German printer's owner and from 1925 a member of the NSDAP and from 1930 of the SS . From 1933 to 1934 he headed the Osthofen concentration camp , then he was until 1936 the protective custody camp of Dachau concentration camp . From 1939 he was police director in Cuxhaven , from 1943 in Heilbronn .

Life

Karl d'Angelo was the son of the printer Anton Karl Eduard Gustav d'Angelo and his wife Albertine, born Braun. He attended the cathedral grammar school in Worms until 1905 and then technical and journalism technical schools in Leipzig and Berlin .

After completing his military service (1912/13) and participating in the First World War (awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class), he was dismissed from the Reichswehr in October 1918 (most recently in the rank of vice sergeant, later lieutenant in the reserve) , and immediately took over his father's position Printing company as well as the "Osthofener Zeitung" and he took part in the Ruhr fight against the French occupiers and was sentenced three times for acts of sabotage , including two years in prison, between 1919 and 1923 . But he did not have to serve the sentence because of an amnesty. He then bought a printing company in Worms. Karl d'Angelo, who was a Catholic, was married to Luise, née Scherach.

On November 3, 1925, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 21,616) and on January 28, 1930 the SS (membership number 2058). On May 9, 1930, he received the rank of SS-Sturmführer and later the Golden Party Badge .

From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse .

On November 2, 1931, he was appointed SS-Sturmbannführer, and in the spring of 1933 he became camp manager of the Osthofen concentration camp (since November 9, 1933 in the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer) and on February 25, 1935, i.e. after the concentration camp was dissolved Osthofens, as a protective custody camp leader (since September 15, 1935 in the rank of SS standard leader) and thus the most important SS leader after the camp commandant, transferred to the Dachau concentration camp. Because of excessive leniency, lack of interest and misconduct in personnel policy through the smuggling of SS men he knew from Hesse, he was banned from uniforms and camps by the inspector of the concentration camps SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke on April 24, 1936, and was given leave on November 1, 1936 Relieved of his duties as unsuitable, but in November 1937 commissioned to head the Pretzsch an der Elbe border police school .

On March 6, 1939, he was appointed acting police director in Cuxhaven by Reichsführer SS Himmler , and on April 5, 1940, he was assigned to the post of salary group A2c1 there. According to a statement from the Head of the Ordnungspolizei's personnel officer, Ministerialrat Pohlmann, on January 19, 1942, he was originally intended to be the head of a smaller police headquarters, but was appointed Police Director in Heilbronn on April 1, 1943, and on September 9, 1944, he was appointed as a civil servant for life .

During his service in Heilbronn, the air raid on Heilbronn took place on December 4, 1944 , in which around 6,500 people were killed and the entire city center was destroyed. In 1946 an article in Heilbronn's voice accused him and district leader Richard Drauz of having "left the city evening after evening", "instead of going to the command posts and doing their duty". He was counted among the main responsible for the fact that the city was not evacuated and remained without suitable air raid protection measures. The enormous dimensions of the night of horror are due to his “frivolity”.

It is very likely that he died of suicide on March 20, 1945. His body was found on May 13, 1945 in the Rhine at km 463 in the Gernsheim district .

literature

  • HStAS Rep. E 151/03 Bü 385, Bl. 126; ibid, rep. EA 2/150, d'Angelo personnel file.
  • BAL SS Personnel File d'Angelo.
  • Dirk Riedel: vigilante and mass murderer in the service of the "Volksgemeinschaft". The concentration camp commandant Hans Loritz , Metropol, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-940938-63-3 , pp. 143-147 u. P. 362.
  • B. Klemm (Ed.): "... the nonsense was put to an end by police intervention." Secret reports by the Hessian political police about left and right in Offenbach 1923-30. Frankfurt 1982.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm: The police in the Nazi state. The history of your organization at a glance. 2nd Edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-77513-8 .
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 54.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 122.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 54.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rack states "Protestant, then non-denominational
  2. ↑ Susanne Stickel-Pieper (arrangement): Trau! Look! Whom? Documents on the history of the labor movement in the Heilbronn / Neckarsulm area 1844–1949 . Distel-Verlag, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-929348-09-8 , in the book ISBN 3-923348-09-8 , p. 469 f.
  3. ↑ Hans Georg Ruppel / Birgit Groß (as well as Rack, who quotes Ruppel / Groß) indicate March 21, 1945 as the date of death
personal data
SURNAME Angelo, Karl d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angelo, Karl Heinrich d '(full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), SS member
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Osthofen , Rheinhessen
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1945
Place of death on the Rhine, uncertain: near Gernsheim