Kurt Egger (SA member)

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Konrad Anton 'Kurt' Egger (often wrongly referred to as Eggers and Eggert in the literature) (born May 27, 1910 in Haag , Upper Bavaria; † missing near Budapest since February 20, 1945 , declared dead in 1950) was a German SA -Guide . Egger became known as one of the murderers of the "clairvoyant" Erik Jan Hanussen .

Live and act

Weimar Republic

After attending primary school and secondary school, Kurt Egger completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Munich. From December 6, 1927 Egger worked in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP. He joined the NSDAP for the first time on April 15, 1928 . After a temporary resignation from the party, he was accepted into the NSDAP again on April 1, 1930 at the local group Dallmin in Brandenburg ( membership number 235.546 ).

In 1931 Egger - since April 7, 1931 in the rank of SA troop leader - led a work detail in Liebenberg. After its dissolution on September 1, 1931, at the instigation of the head of the Berlin Gausturm Horst von Petersdorff, he was assigned to the Berlin staff guard of the SA, where his activities extended to accompanying Petersdorff. After Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff took over the Berliner SA , Egger was taken over in his staff guard. On December 24, 1932 Egger was promoted to Sturmführer at the suggestion of Karl Ernst .

Early Nazi era

In March 1933 Egger was ordered to serve as an orderly for five weeks on the “companion staff of the Führer”, i.e. Hitler's . In the same month Egger murdered the clairvoyant Erik Jan Hanussen on behalf of Karl Ernst together with Rudolf Steinle and Wilhelm Ohst . For February 1933, Egger was also repeatedly brought into connection with the Reichstag fire .

In April 1933 Egger was transferred back to the staff guard of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg , whose leadership he now took over as the successor to Hans Georg Gewehr . On July 1, 1934, at Ernst's instigation, he was appointed to Munich as leader of the staff guard of the Chief of Staff of the SA Ernst Röhm . In this position he succeeds Julius Uhl , who took over the SA standard in Ingolstadt. On October 1, 1933, Egger was promoted to Sturmhauptführer.

On June 30, 1934, Egger was arrested in the presence of Hitler on the way to an SA leaders' conference in Bad Wiessee in the course of the Röhm affair shortly before Munich. He was taken to the Stadelheim prison and held there until his release by order of the Gestapa on August 18, 1934. His rehabilitation by an SA special court followed on October 12, 1934. At the time of the Röhm affair, Egger was officially still the head of Röhm's staff guard - he had also assigned Röhm's bodyguards to Bad Wiessee - but was about to do so to be transferred back to Uhl, who was already in Wiessee for this purpose.

After his release from prison, Egger was assigned to the SA group Hessen in Frankfurt am Main in accordance with an order of October 13, 1934 with effect from November 1, 1934 . Soon afterwards, with effect from December 1, 1934, he was transferred to an SA relief agency camp near Kassel (Gau Kurhessen), where he stayed until at least 1935. The official transfer to the SA group Hessen followed according to the staff order of March 28, 1925 with effect from February 1, 1935.

Next life

In 1939 Egger can be traced back to Berlin-Neukölln: at that time he was listed as an employee of the German Labor Front (DAF) with his residence at Hertzbergstrasse 32 / III.

As a participant in World War II , Egger has been missing near Budapest since February 12, 1945 . By order of the Berlin-Neukölln District Court on March 19, 1951, Egger was officially declared dead.

After the Second World War, prosecutors investigated Egger, like Ohst and Steinle, in connection with the murder of Hanussen. Since he could not be found any more than his accomplices and he had been officially declared dead, the case against him was dropped.

Promotions

  • June 1, 1930: SA squad leader
  • April 7, 1931: SA troop leader
  • December 24, 1932: SA Sturmführer
  • October 13, 1933: SA Sturmhauptführer

Archival material

  • Questionnaire for party statistics from 1939 (Federal Archives: holdings 9361 / I 622)
  • NSDAP party correspondence (Federal Archives: holdings PK, picture 1899-1912)
  • SA leader questionnaire (Federal Archives: holdings SA 4000, film 117, pictures 164-167)

literature

  • Wilfried Kugel: Hanussen. The true story of Hermann Steinschneider , 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Wallace: Feuchtwanger and Film , 2009, p. 222.
  2. Exemplary Eduard Calic: Reinhard Heydrich. The Chilling Story of the man who masterminded the Nazi death camps , p. 92 and Pierre Gregoire: Der Reichstagbrand: the provocation of the 20th century: research result , 1978, p. 145 and passim.