Oskar Lossen

Oskar Lossen (born June 17, 1887 in Munich , † November 8, 1963 in Koenigswinter ) was major general of the police and inspector of the regulatory police in the upper presidium of Münster.

Life

After graduating from high school in Munich, Oskar Lossen joined the 5th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment as an ensign in 1907 and was a department adjutant here in 1916. Later in the war he was battery leader and adjutant to various artillery commanders. He was wounded in the war, but in May 1919 he joined the Bamberg Freikorps and went to the Munich Military Regiment. On October 1, 1919, he was transferred to the Bavarian State Police , where he was a department adjutant and, most recently, leader of the Hundreds. Lossen studied law and passed his first state examination in law in 1923 at the University of Munich . In 1925 he received his doctorate. Returned to the state police, he was a major here in 1931 and from 1933 to 1937 he was in command of the Fürstenfeldbruck police and gendarmerie school. Lossen was a member of the NSDAP from May 1, 1937 ( membership number 5,917,594). In July 1938 he joined the SS (membership number 39.503) and was appointed SS Standartenführer that same year . In 1939 he joined the “ Verein Lebensborn e. V. “at. Before his transfer in May 1938 as representative of the inspector of the Ordnungspolizei at the Oberpräsident in Münster, Lossen was the head of the training office in the main office of the Ordnungspolizei under the command of the Reichsführer SS . Until June 1939 he served as inspector of the Ordnungspolizei, and until May 1942 SS leader with the staff of SS Section XVII. This was followed by a deployment in the staff of the SS upper section in mid-May 1942 until he was retired in December 1944. Before that, he was inspector of the regulatory police in Hanover and Magdeburg as well as chief of the field gendarmerie at the military commander for Belgium and northern France in Brussels.

Fonts

• The legal police coercion in its legal basis and its limits according to Bavarian law, Verlag: Studentenhaus, 1
• Horst Baerensprung; Karl Lautenschlaeger; Oskar Lossen; Herbert Scholz: Police SOS: Protection, Order, Security; Official signs for police officers, Verlag Oehler, Hanover 1950

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918-1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch, Münster, Aschendorff Verlag, 2004, p. 210, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .

Web links

• Oskar Lossen Short biography on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"