Ladi-Joseph Pauly

Ladi-Joseph Pauly (born February 20, 1892 in Wollstein ; † unknown) was a German paramilitary activist and SA leader , most recently Oberführer.

Live and act

In his youth Pauly attended elementary school and a high school.

From 1914 to 1918 Pauly took part in the First World War with the Fusilier Regiment 37 . During the war he was used almost continuously on the western front, where he fought off Verdun, on the Somme and in the Argonne Forest, among other places. Only in 1916 did he briefly stand with his formation in the east at Baranowitschi. Until 1918 he was used as a platoon leader, shock troop leader, SMG platoon leader and company commander. In the last phase of the war, he was an air officer in Aviation Department 4. During the war Pauly was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes .

Following the German defeat in the war and the outbreak of German-Polish border conflicts, Pauly and other members of his aviation department in Poznan were taken prisoner in Poland in December 1918 after they had tried to forcibly prevent Polish units from taking over the Elsenmühle Aviation School. He was finally able to escape from captivity and return to the territory of the German Empire via Wronke .

After Pauly retired from border protection in June 1919, he earned his living as an advertising specialist. He later had a number of bookmaking offices in Berlin.

Pauly continued to be politically active in circles of the extreme political right. In 1931 he finally joined the Nazi movement: Pauly joined the NSDAP on February 15, 1931 (membership number 525.177). Soon afterwards he began to work actively in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party's street combat organization. After Pauly had participated in the suppression of the Stennes revolt in April 1931 , he officially became a member of the SA on May 15, 1931. After the Stennes events, he received the order from the new Berlin SA leadership to set up the reserve for SA Standard 2. Afterwards he was Sturmbannführer of Standard 2 for a while and then worked for a while in the Standard staff.

On January 30, 1933, Pauly was appointed staff leader of the SA sub-group Berlin-West led by Ernst Pretzel . When Pretzel was deposed a few weeks later due to a dispute with the new leader of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg Karl Ernst as leader of the West subgroup, Pauly became Ernst's protégé in Pretzel's place with effect from April 22, 1933 with the leadership of the subgroup West commissioned. He was thus - alongside the leader of the Berlin SA group and the leaders of the other three subgroups - one of the five highest SA leaders in Berlin. After the reorganization of the Berlin SA in the summer of 1933, Pauly was appointed leader of Brigade 30, which was the successor formation of the Berlin-West subgroup, in September 1933. He kept the leadership of this unit until the Berlin SA leadership was purged in the wake of the Röhm affair in the summer of 1934.

Also in 1933 Pauly became a district councilor in Berlin-Schöneberg.

After Pauly had been given leave of absence in July 1934 by the acting leader of the Berlin SA, Walther Wecke , investigative proceedings against him were initiated by a special SA court. He was accused of being a protégé by Ernst and of embezzling the funds of his brigade and of tolerating or covering various violent riots and other offenses by SA people under his control. The investigation ended with the application of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg to the SA leadership to release Pauly from the SA. At the end of 1934 this agreed with Pauly to initially place him pro forma zV with the Berlin-Brandenburg group to preserve his reputation and then, after a transition period, leave the SA.

Promotions

• June 1, 1931: SA troop leader
• August 15, 1931: SA-Sturmbannführer
• January 10, 1933: SA Standartenführer (according to "Führerbefehl" 12)
• August 6, 1933: SA-Oberführer (according to "Führer's order" No. 17)

Archival material

Various personal documents on Pauly have been preserved in the Federal Archives: the holdings of the former Berlin Document Center include an SA personnel file (SA microfilm 93-Bm images 1515-1521) and an SA court file (SA-P microfilm D 202) .

literature

• Horst Henrich: The organization of the supreme SA leadership. With ranking list of Obergruppenführer, Gruppe- und Brigadführer , 1966, p. 175.