Kurt Knoblauch

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Kurt Knoblauch (born December 10, 1885 in Marienwerder , † November 10, 1952 in Munich ) was a German officer , SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS .

Life

Knoblauch was a son of the tax inspector Friedrich Knoblauch († September 25, 1922 in Hameln) and his wife Emma, ​​née Schröder.

After graduating from high school in Ratzeburg , Knoblauch joined the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 of the Prussian Army on February 23, 1905 as a flag junior . There he was promoted to lieutenant on August 18, 1906 and transferred to the 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 70 on October 18, 1909 , where he served as platoon leader . To learn the field pioneer service in mid-May 1911 was a one-month command to the 1st Rhenish Pioneer Battalion No. 8. From October 1, 1912 Knoblauch was then adjutant of the III. Battalion, was on February 17, 1914 lieutenant added, and from 1 May 1914 district headquarters Saarbrücken.

With the outbreak of the First World War , Knoblauch became company commander in Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 32 on August 2, 1914. In the further course of the war, he was promoted to captain on June 18, 1915 , wounded several times and used in various positions.

After the end of the war, Knoblauch belonged to the Freikorps German Protection Division and was accepted into the Provisional Reichswehr . First as chief of the 4th MG Company, then as chief of the 12th Company in Reichswehr Rifle Regiment 3, he joined the staff of the 18th Infantry Regiment in Paderborn as an intelligence officer when the Reichswehr was formed . Later he was company commander, became a major on February 1, 1926 , and a lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1930 , and as such, commander of the 2nd battalion of the 1st (Prussian) Infantry Regiment . From April 1, 1931, Knoblauch was a member of the regimental staff, became a colonel on February 1, 1933 , and shortly afterwards resigned from army service on March 31, 1933 under the approval of statutory provisions and authorization to wear the uniform of the 18th Infantry Regiment.

Knoblauch joined the NSDAP on April 20, 1933 ( membership number 2,750,158), became a member of the SA in the same year and was a full-time SA leader until April 12, 1935. He then joined the General SS (SS-No. 266.653), was a manager in the SS main office from 1935 and rose to SS-Obergruppenführer in June 1944. In addition, from 1937 Knoblauch was also a member of the Deputy Leader's staff and in this function was supposed to get the NSDAP in the mood for war.

In May 1940 he was appointed inspector of the replacement units of the SS Totenkopf Division and was one of Heinrich Himmler's close confidants . From December 1940 he was in command of the Waffen SS in the Netherlands . On April 7, 1941 he was appointed to the RFSS command staff . In July 1942 he became head of the SS Leadership Main Office , Office Group B and was given the task of managing the SS units to support u. a. to coordinate the army units and the police. Two years after his appointment, he was replaced in the spring of 1943 by Ernst Rode from his post as chief of the RFSS command staff.

After the war, Knoblauch was classified as an activist by the Munich Main Arbitration Chamber in December 1949 and sentenced to two years in a labor camp. A Munich ruling chamber rejected his appeal in June 1950 and confirmed the ruling of the first instance.

See also

literature

  • Peter Longerich , Institute for Contemporary History : Hitler's Deputy: Leadership of the Party and Control of the State Apparatus by the Hess Staff and the Party Chancellery Bormann: A publication by the Institute for Contemporary History , KG Saur, Munich 1992.
  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Andreas Schulz , Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 2: Hachtel – Kutschera. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2005. ISBN 3-7648-2592-8 . Pp. 534-540.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch . Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 , p. 706.
  2. ^ SS Personnel Office: List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel, as of December 1, 1937, serial no. 238
  3. ↑ Kurt Knoblauch on www.dws-xip.pl.
  4. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 320.
  5. ^ Charles W. Sydnor: Soldiers of destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945 . Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-691-00853-0 , p. 113.
  6. ↑ Peter Longerich: Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews . Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-280436-5 , p. 187.
  7. ↑ Terry Goldsworthy: Valhalla's Warriors: A History of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 . Dog Ear Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60844-639-1 , p. 91.
  8. ^ Protocol of the Nuremberg Trial, January 7, 1946 . Original text on zeno.org.
personal data
SURNAME Garlic, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1952
Place of death Munich