Max Montua

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Max Montua (born May 18, 1886 in Prust , Schwetz district , † April 20, 1945 in Dahme / Mark ) was a German merchant and officer, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the police .

Life

Montua was a merchant and served on foot in the 3rd Guards Regiment during the First World War . In 1919 he was released from the army and entered the police force. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 ( membership number 1.988.331).

During the Second World War, Montua worked from 1939 to 1940 as the commander of the Ordnungspolizei (KdO) in Krakow . From March 1940 to June 1941 he led the police regiment " Warsaw " and was also KdO Warsaw. From the summer of 1941 to January 1942, Montua was assigned as a commander to the Central Police Regiment . Before the murder of Jews in Białystok , he made the following statement on July 11, 1941: "The impressions of the day can be blurred by holding comradeship evenings". Montua participated in the Wehrmacht's first anti-partisan course from September 24 to 26, 1941 in Mogilew . The course headed Infantry General Max von Schenckendorff commander of the Rear Army area of Army Group Center . This course went down in history as a prime example of the cooperation between the Wehrmacht and SS in the rear of the army. In the exhibition catalog of the first Wehrmacht exhibition , it was referred to as the "School of Terror". 61 officers from the Army High Command , the Army Group Center, the security divisions , the field command offices , the economic inspectorates , the regulatory police and the SS took part in the course. These were to serve as multipliers to make known the methods against partisans in the rear Central Army Area. The course participants also took part in two activities in villages. Once a village was searched by the Central Police Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Montua and a “partisan's nest” dug again. Partisans were not found, but some Jews were shot.

He joined the SS in September 1943 (SS no. 411,971) and rose to the position of brigade leader in the same year. Motua became police chief in Poznan in 1943 . In April 1945 he committed suicide .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 3: Lammerding-Plesch. Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 , p. 223
  2. ↑ Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 415.
  3. ^ Jörn Hasenclever: Wehrmacht and occupation policy in the Soviet Union. The commanders of the rear army areas 1941–1943. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010.
  4. ^ Bert Hoppe : Soviet Union with annexed areas , p. 160f. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  5. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: Die Generale der Waffen-SS and the Police , Volume 3, pp. 223-228
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Curilla: Der Judenmord in Polen and the German Ordnungspolizei 1939–1945 , pp. 273, 336, 535, 860. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
personal data
SURNAME Montua, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and officer, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the police
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Puff
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1945
Place of death Dahme / Mark