Max Großkopf

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Max Großkopf (born April 25, 1892 - † April 25, 1945 ) was a German lawyer, SS leader and government councilor in the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD).

Life

Großkopf was the son of a miller. He completed his school career at high school with the Abitur . He then studied economics and law and completed his studies with a doctorate . He took part in the First World War as a war volunteer and achieved the rank of lieutenant in the army . He was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class . After the end of the war, Großkopf worked as a freelance miller and took over his father's mill. From 1926 he worked as a functionary in the Reich associations of the milling trade.

time of the nationalsocialism

With the beginning of the Nazi era , Großkopf had already entered the police service in 1933 and in 1933 became head of the department for economic, agricultural and social policy matters at the Secret State Police Office in Berlin (Referat II E). He became a member of the NSDAP in 1932 (membership number 1.102.100). He was admitted to the SS (membership number 107.462) in 1935 and rose to the rank of Obersturmbannführer .

Second World War

After the beginning of the Second World War , Großkopf Ludwig Hahn followed in the Generalgouvernement in late summer 1940 as commander of the security police and the SD (KdS) in Krakow . In this function he was instrumental in carrying out the Holocaust in the Krakow district . In the summer of 1943, Großkopf was replaced as KdS Krakau by Rudolf Batz . Then he became head of the Gestapo in Graz . From January 1945 he was a liaison officer with the staff of the Russian Liberation Army , which was under General Vlasov . In April 1945, Großkopf committed suicide .

literature

  • Klaus-Michael Mallmann : " Man, I'm celebrating the thousandth shot in the neck today - the security police and the Shoah in West Galicia". In: Gerhard Paul: The perpetrators of the Shoah: fanatical National Socialists or just normal Germans? . Wallstein, Göttingen 2002. ISBN 3892445036 , p. 112.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Klaus-Michael Mallmann: " Man, I'm celebrating the thousandth shot in the neck today - the security police and the Shoah in West Galicia". In: Gerhard Paul : The perpetrators of the Shoah: fanatical National Socialists or just normal Germans? . Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, p. 112.
personal data
SURNAME Big head, max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Large head, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1892
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1945