Kurt Mosert

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Kurt Mosert (born March 25, 1907 in Wittenberg ; † July 3, 1934 in the Lichtenburg concentration camp ) was a German SA leader and one of the victims of the so-called Röhm Putsch .

Live and act

Early life and career in the SA until 1934 (1907 to 1934)

Mosert was born in 1907 as the son of Vice-Principal Paul Mosert and his wife Anna.

Mosert joined the NSDAP on July 1, 1927 and at about the same time also joined the Sturmabteilung (SA). In the following years, Mosert took on duties in the party as deputy head of propaganda and as treasurer of various local groups in Wittenberg and Sangerhausen . Also took part in the Nazi party rallies of 1927, 1929 and 1933.

As an SA leader, Mosert was particularly noticeable for his involvement in numerous street and hall battles between the National Socialists and their political opponents in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Among other things, he suffered a double-sided severe concussion as well as various head and stab injuries. During the Weimar Republic, he was sentenced to prison terms for breach of the peace , secret bundling and offenses against the ban on uniforms. Later he was awarded the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP .

In 1933 Mosert ran the Sturmbann I / 20 in Wittenberg. In the city's address book for 1933, he was also named as managing director of the general local health insurance fund .

Conflict with the SS and death

On March 5, 1934, the staff leader of the SA group in the middle of Mosert commissioned the management of Standard 72 in Torgau . Obertruppführer Hillebrandt, who was subordinate to him as an administrative leader in the staff of the 72nd Standard, described Mosert and his work as follows: “[a] fanatical and ardent freedom fighter for the Third Reich and despite his young age a great example of bravery”.

In the following months, in the area of ​​the standard, in which the Lichtenburg concentration camp was also located, there were various clashes between Mosert's SA men and the SS guards of the concentration camp , which, according to Schulze's research, were more personal than political (Tavern disputes and the like). In this context, Mosert had several discussions with local SS leaders, including the Lichtenburg camp manager Theodor Eicke and the director of the Hillebrandt camp, to whom Mosert explained:

“Anyone who touches my men touches me and whoever touches me and has no authorization to do so, that is, who is not commissioned by the regular police, I will defend myself with the means available to me, and if I kill or shoot him should, since then I act in legitimate self-defense! "

On the night of June 30th to July 1st, 1934, Mosert was asked by the district administrator of the Torgau district Wilhelm Jung by telephone at around 3 a.m. to come to the hussar barracks on the outskirts of Torgau . When he appeared there with his adjutant Haferkorn, he was received by SS-Obersturmführer Curt Brasack from the 91st SS-Standarte, who surprisingly announced his arrest. He was first taken to the Torgau remand prison and, after brief interim stays in the Torgau police prison and probably another facility (probably the Wehrmacht prison Fort Zinna ), the following night on July 3 between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m., armed SS men transferred him to the Lichtenburg concentration camp. There he was shot on the same day, allegedly while trying to escape.

The body of Mosert and at least one other person who had been killed (probably SA leader Max Schulze) were buried on the Lichtenburg site and the filled grave was also covered with a dung heap. A few months later, the half-decayed corpses were exhumed and transferred to the Prettin cemetery.

Mosert's death made waves in his homeland. The situation reports of the Gestapo registered for the Torgau area in the summer of 1934 "an apparently particularly strong tension between SA and SS because of the shooting of SA Standartenführer Mosert."

In the following years, Mosert's parents persistently tried to clarify the fate of their son. After several evasive or negative information from various government agencies, they were briefly informed on October 6, 1934 by the Halle State Police that "Kurt Mosert had been killed during the action initiated on the occasion of the Röhm revolt". The Mosert couple then emphatically tried to come to terms with their son’s death. On October 16, 1934, they went so far as to apply for a lawsuit “against the Prussian state, represented by the Prussian Prime Minister” at the Torgau Regional Court , which was ultimately rejected.

Archival material

  • Bundesarchiv Berlin: BDC, PK files on Kurt Mosert (PK I 144)
  • Federal Archives Berlin: R 3001/164159 (file of the Reich Ministry of Justice in Mosert)

literature

  • Dietmar Schulze: The "Röhm Putsch" in the province of Saxony, in: Hallische contributions to contemporary history No. 15, 2005, pp. 9–34. Put online by the University of Halle [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietmar Schulze: “The 'Röhm Putsch' in the Province of Saxony”, in: Hallische Contributions to Contemporary History No. 15, 2005, pp. 9–34.
  2. ↑ Schulze: Röhm-Putsch, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Mosert, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1907 or March 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1934
Place of death Lichtenburg concentration camp