Leo Petri
Leo Petri (born October 20, 1876 in Gliwice , † May 5, 1961 in Nuremberg ) was a German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS .
Petri was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 590.193) and SS (SS number 209.076).
On June 18, 1934, Petri became Sturmbannführer . In 1935 he became head of the Office for Security Tasks in the SS Main Office and of the Office for Reich Defense Affairs in the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer SS . Until 1945 he was chief of the Office I (command office of the General SS) in the SS leadership main office .
On April 20, 1942 he was promoted to Gruppenführer (Lieutenant General) in the SS and Waffen SS .
On October 13, 1942, as an assessor in the 2nd Senate of the People's Court, he carried the death sentence against the resistance fighters Hanno Günther , Wolfgang Pander, Bernhard Sikorski, Emmerich Schaper, Alfred Schmidt-Sas and Dagmar Petersen (so-called Rütli group).
Petri took part in the group leader conference in Poznan on October 4, 1943, at which Heinrich Himmler gave the first speech in Poznan .
See also
Web links
- Interrogation minutes of December 10, 1946 (PDF; 8.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Leo Petri on www.dws-xip.pl .
- ^ Helmut Krausnick: Anatomy of the SS state . Walker, New York 1968, p. 591.
- ^ Kurt Schilde: Youth opposition 1933–1945: selected contributions . Kulas Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 36. ISBN 978-3-86732-009-2 .
- ^ Romuald Karmakar , The Himmler Project , DVD 2000, Berlin, ISBN 3-89848-719-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petri, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lieutenant general of the Waffen SS and SS group leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gliwice |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1961 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |