Kurt Gohrum

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Kurt Göhrum (born March 27, 1891 in Aalen , † April 11, 1953 in Wladimir , Soviet Union ) was a German SS group leader and, as a lieutenant general of the police, chief of police in Berlin .

Life

Göhrum attended the humanistic grammar school in Hall and from 1902 to 1910 the cadet school in Karlsruhe. He then served in the 10th Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 180 (Tübingen) and attended the war school in Metz from 1910 to 1911. In the First World War he took part in the rank of lieutenant from the start . Due to a war injury, he completed an officer training and was promoted to first lieutenant in October 1916. Then he was employed as an inspection officer at the NCO School in Ellwangen, where he saw the end of the war. After the end of the war he was a member of the Reichswehr Rifle Regiment No. 25.

In October 1919 he joined the Württemberg police service in Tübingen with the rank of lieutenant police and was promoted to police captain in January 1920. Initially, he was employed in Tübingen as a Hundred Leader and in July 1923 switched to the Stuttgart Police Headquarters , where he also worked as a Hundred Leader until July 1929. From September 1929 to March 1933 he was commander of the police school department in Ellwangen. Meanwhile, in early May 1932, he was promoted to police major.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Göhrum joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.226.799) in early May 1933 . From the spring of 1933 he was commander of the Stuttgart police force and from the beginning of November 1933 he was employed by the Württemberg state police as the commander of the police school department at the Weingarten state police department. From the beginning of September 1934 to March 1938 he again acted as commander of the Stuttgart police force and was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the police force during this period. After the annexation of Austria , he took part in the invasion of the country in the spring of 1938 and was then group commander of the police in Tyrol . From the end of April 1938 to March 1943 he was commander of the police in Recklinghausen . In the meantime he was promoted to colonel in the protective police at the beginning of January 1939 and took part in the western campaign from May 1940 after the beginning of World War II .

From January 1942 he was inspector of the Ordnungspolizei (ITE) in Munich, then from March 22nd to September 10th 1943 he was managing ITE in military district XIII in Nuremberg. In late August 1943 he was promoted to major general in the police. In September 1943 he succeeded Heinrich Lankenau as BdO of Wehrkreis VI in Münster.

In November 1943 Göhrum was admitted to the SS as SS- Brigadführer (SS-Nr. 468.239), where he was promoted to group leader in April 1944. At the same time as he was appointed group leader, he was appointed lieutenant general of the police. From April 1944 he was briefly commander of the police in Berlin. From August 1944, initially on a provisional basis, and from the beginning of December 1944 officially, as Senior Police Leader, he was head of the Berlin police and executive police chief there , he held these functions until the end of the war. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on May 3, 1945 in Berlin, where he later died.

Göhrum's son Hans-Henning (* 1919) was also in the SS, namely as Untersturmführer.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46) , Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 , p. 159 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krasnaya Zvezda, edition v. May 5, 1945: From the Soviet Information Office - situation report for May 4 , p. 3 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Goehrum, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS group leader and police chief in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1953
Place of death Vladimir (Russia)