Kurt Ellersiek

Kurt Hildebert Ellersiek (born April 5, 1901 in Dortmund , † after 1961) was a German industrial engineer, Nazi functionary and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS Oberführer .

Career

Kurt Ellersiek was the son of the businessman Erich Ellersiek. After finishing his school career, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith. In his youth he belonged to the Völkischer Wandervogel from 1916 to 1920 , where he headed the Rhineland / Westphalia area from 1919. From 1920 he belonged to the Treubund for Rhineland and Westphalia.

In November 1929 he joined the SA in Dortmund , of which he was a member until January 1935. In the spring of 1930 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 218.341). After receiving a place at the Technical University of Munich in the course of a gifted test in 1930 , he completed a degree in economics there until 1934, with a degree in industrial engineering. He had been a member of the NS student union since 1930. From spring 1931 he headed the Office for Political Education at the AStA at the Technical University of Munich. He was also the district leader of the NS student union.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , on May 10, 1933, Ellersiek, as the "elder of the German student body", gave a "speech carried by the patriotic spirit " at the book burning on Königsplatz in front of Munich students. From 1933 to 1934 he worked for the Munich SA University Office. There he was responsible as an assistant for all questions of ideological and political training and until June 1934 head of department at the "Pieskow Driving School".

In April 1935 Ellersiek changed from the SA to the SS (membership no. 275.719) and was assigned to the RuSHA , where he worked for the training office and race office. In consultation with the head of the NS student union, Albert Derichsweiler , both founded so-called SS team houses in cooperation with local SS leaders from the summer of 1935. In the SS team houses, a student SS elite should receive ideological training and military sports training. Ellersiek was the commander of the SS crew houses and remained in this position even after the change of responsibility from RuSHA to the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS in early 1939.

Shortly before the beginning of the Second World War , he was drafted into the infantry regiment “Greater Germany” , where he was deployed for a year. At the beginning of August 1940 he took over the management of the SS crew houses again. From October 1941 he was assigned to the LSAH and took part in the Balkan campaign and the attack on the Soviet Union . On August 11, 1941, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

Ellersiek rose to SS-Oberführer at the end of January 1942. In 1942 he became Vice-Inspector of the National Political Education Institutions (Napola).

In mid-May 1943 he was appointed General Command of III. (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps transferred and from there in August 1943 to the 11th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Nordland" . In January 1944 he was wounded outside Leningrad and then treated in the hospital in Würzburg. From May to December 1944 he was employed in the SS assault gun replacement and training department. In December 1944 he was transferred to the SS Personnel Main Office. In mid-February 1945 Ellersiek was ordered to the headquarters of the Reichsführer SS to help organize the Volkssturm . He eventually headed Heinrich Himmler's field command staff in the Rhine Front area .

After the end of the war, Ellersiek took the alias Dr. Konrad Ehlers too. Since the summer of 1946 he played a leading role in the development of a German underground organization, the center of which was in the British occupation zone . The aim of the underground movement was an anti-Soviet western bloc policy by Great Britain, to which England was to be forced with the threat of the use of bacteriological weapons. Early that morning on February 23, 1947, Ellersiek was arrested by members of the American secret service in Fulda when he was lying in bed with his girlfriend. His wife, who lives in Hamburg, was arrested by members of the British secret service. Ellersiek was classified as "incriminated" as part of the denazification process .

By the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main Ellersiek was sentenced on 19 July 1961, four and a half years in prison because of the illegal shooting of a corporal in the war final phase .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
• LG Frankfurt, July 19, 1961 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XVII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1977, No. 518, pp. 645-655 Subject matter of the proceedings: shooting of a corporal who had accompanied a furniture transport without a travel order

Web links

• Documents on Ellersiek at www.foia.cia.gov

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The way to III. Reich, 1925–1933 at http://www.aplerbeck-damals.de
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bastian Hein: Elite for people and leaders? The General SS and its members 1925-1945 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, p. 161 f.
3. ^ Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925-1933. An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002, ISBN 3-486-56670-9 , p. 330.
4. ^ Roland Ray: Approaching France in the service of Hitler? Otto Abetz and the German policy on France 1930–1942 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56495-1 , p. 221.
5. ^ Peter Köpf: The Königsplatz in Munich. A German place . Ch.links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8615-3372-3 , p. 82.
6. ↑ See Lutz Hachmeister : Schleyer. A German story . CH Beck, 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-51863-8 , p. 94.
7. ↑ Isabel Heinemann: “Race, settlement, German blood”: The race and settlement main office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe . Wallstein, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89244-623-7 , p. 93.
8. ↑ Isabel Heinemann: “Race, settlement, German blood”: The race and settlement main office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe . Wallstein, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89244-623-7 , p. 92 f.
9. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 133.
10. ^ Friedrich Paul Heller, Anton Maegerle : Thule. From folk occultism to the New Right. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Butterfly Verlag , Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-89657-090-0 , p. 87.
11. ↑ Bacilli. The underground in Mr. Ellersiek . In: Der Spiegel , edition 9/1947 of March 1, 1947, p. 2.
12. ^ Institute for International Politics and Economics: Documentation of Time , Issues 253–276, 1962, p. 32.