Kurt Fries

Kurt Pomme (born February 14, 1899 in Witaschütz , † after 1945) was a German SS leader and police officer.

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After the First World War , Pomme joined the police. Since 1929 he maintained contacts with National Socialist circles. A few weeks after the National Socialist seizure of power, he was promoted to lieutenant in the state police on March 21, 1933. In the following years he was one of Hermann Göring's employees.

In November 1934, Pomme was transferred to the Secret State Police Office as an adjutant to Reinhard Heydrich , the head of the Secret State Police Office and head of the Security Police. According to some sources, the Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring had pushed Heydrich through this appointment in order to have a loyal guardian and observer in Heydrich's environment who, in the face of the constant power struggle of the higher NS leaders, over the activities of the Gestapo chief Should keep up to date. George C. Browder writes with reference to these sources that there is some evidence that Pomme was "a kind of Trojan horse" that the Prussian Prime Minister placed in the vicinity of the Chief of the Security Police. As head of Heydrich's Adjutantur in the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa), Pommes task was to act as the Gestapa's liaison to the various state and Reich ministries, in particular to maintain contact with Göring's office as Prussian Prime Minister of the Prussian State Ministry. Another important task was to keep in touch with the defense as Heydrich's liaison man.

The alleged former Gestapo officer Hans-Jürgen Koehler asserted in exile in England in 1940 that Heydrich had managed to outmaneuver Göring by essentially restricting Pomme's work on his staff to representing him on representative occasions, so that he had very little Had the opportunity to monitor his boss. He had no influence on the conduct and actions of the political police. Koehler describes Pomme as an appearance as follows:

“ Captain Pomme is around forty. A tall, broad-shouldered man with short, dark hair parted at the side. His face is round, his eyes are dark, his posture is characterized by the typical stiffness of an old-fashioned Prussian officer. He diligently uses a harsh, commanding manner of speaking. He behaves towards strangers in an always polite, almost lovable way. He is married and leads a simple, almost humble, life. I knew him as a human, honest man. Within the police apparatus he was a representative of the moderate variety. "

In the course of his work as Heydrich's adjutant, which he retained until December 15, 1941, Pomme was promoted to captain of the police on April 20, 1936 and on March 1, 1938 to the rank of Hauptsturmführer in the SS (SS No. 290.459) recorded. At a not entirely clear point in time, Pomme also became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 4,691,080).

In 1939 Heydrich set up Pomme together with Walter Schellenberg , Werner Best , Herbert Mehlhorn and Wilhelm Albert as the five directors of the SS own Nordhav Foundation . On April 20, 1940, French fries were promoted to the position of Sturmbannführer of the SS and major in the police. Later he was appointed Colonel of the Police and on August 1, 1943, Obersturmbannführer of the SS.

In the second half of the Second World War , Pomme officiated, among other things, as SS and police site leader in Vinnitsa .

It is certain that Pomme survived World War II, but its whereabouts are unclear.

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Tuchel: Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58. From Villa Minoux to the House of the Wannsee Conference, 1992, p. 171.
↑ George C. Browder : Foundations of the Nazi Police State. The Formation of Sipo and SD, pp. 177 and 297.
↑ Koehler: Inside the Gestapo , 1940, p. 33. In the original the passage reads: “Captain Pomme is about forty, a tall, broad-shouldered man with close-cropped dark hair, parted on the side. His face is round, his eyes dark, his bearing is the typical stiff one of an old-fashioned Prussian officer. He has a hard, commanding manner of speech, he behaves very politely, even amiably, so strangers. He is married and lives very simply, almost modestly. I knew him as a humane, honest man, very moderate. "
↑ Steven Lehrer: Wannsee House and the Holocaust, 2000, p. 60.
↑ In November 1945 he was interrogated by the US secret service about the whereabouts of Heinrich Müller , about whom he stated that he had been killed by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin (Richard Breitman: US Intelligence and the Nazis, 2005, p. 149) .

personal data
SURNAME	French fries, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS leader and police officer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Witaschütz
DATE OF DEATH	after 1945

[1] Johannes Tuchel: Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58. From Villa Minoux to the House of the Wannsee Conference, 1992, p. 171.

[2] George C. Browder : Foundations of the Nazi Police State. The Formation of Sipo and SD, pp. 177 and 297.

[3] Koehler: Inside the Gestapo , 1940, p. 33. In the original the passage reads: “Captain Pomme is about forty, a tall, broad-shouldered man with close-cropped dark hair, parted on the side. His face is round, his eyes dark, his bearing is the typical stiff one of an old-fashioned Prussian officer. He has a hard, commanding manner of speech, he behaves very politely, even amiably, so strangers. He is married and lives very simply, almost modestly. I knew him as a humane, honest man, very moderate. "

[4] Steven Lehrer: Wannsee House and the Holocaust, 2000, p. 60.

[5] In November 1945 he was interrogated by the US secret service about the whereabouts of Heinrich Müller , about whom he stated that he had been killed by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin (Richard Breitman: US Intelligence and the Nazis, 2005, p. 149) .