Kurt Prietzel

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Kurt Prietzel (born April 29, 1897 in Langwaltersdorf , † April 1945 ) was a German police officer and SS leader.

Life

Prietzel was a war volunteer in the First World War . After the end of the war, Prietzel was a paymaster from March 1920 to 1936 as captain of the state police. After that he was a member of the SS command troop's intelligence storm as an administrative leader.

He then joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4.158.931) and SS (SS number 276.744). With the Waffen-SS he reached the rank of SS-Standartenführer in January 1942 .

From April 1939 he was head of department in the Main Office for Households and Buildings, where in 1941 he was deputy head of the office. From February 1942, Prietzel headed Office BI (catering) in the newly created SS Economic and Administrative Main Office ( SS-WVHA) and on behalf of Office Group B. At the beginning of February 1943, Prietzel moved to the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and headed Office II (Organization, Administration and law). From the beginning of June 1944, Prietzel moved to Oslo as an SS clerk . Prietzel has been missing since April 1945. He probably died in combat operations in the final stages of World War II .

literature

  • Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 474
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 323
personal data
SURNAME Prietzel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Langwaltersdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 1945