Otto Geigenmüller

Otto Geigenmüller (born March 17, 1906 in Dresden , † October 22, 1969 in Bonn ) was SS Hauptscharführer; Government councilor and from August 1934 to March 1936 head of the state police stations in Halle (Saale) and Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Otto Geigenmüller passed the First State Examination in 1929 and passed the Great State Examination on March 18, 1933 (government assessor since August 1, 1933 ). The doctor of law worked since April 7, 1933 in the Political Department of the Dresden Police Headquarters . He had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 (membership applied for on March 1, 1933), the SS since 1934 (April 1939 to December 1941 SS-Hauptscharführer in the SD ) and of the SA since November 1, 1933 (until 1934). On August 15 and 18, 1934, he took over the management of the state police station in Halle (Saale). Geigenmüller remained its head until June 30, 1935. On July 1, 1935, the Secret State Police in Berlin (Gestapa) made him head of the State Police in Frankfurt am Main. At the beginning of March 1936 he resigned from the Secret State Police (Gestapo) and was transferred back to the internal administration of Saxony . With effect from November 17, 1936 Geigenmüller went to the state tax office in Würzburg , after the Saxon Ministry of the Interior had also released him from internal administration on June 30, 1936. In 1937 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation "Political Protective Custody in National Socialist Germany". From January 1, 1938 - appointed a member of the government on May 18, 1938 - until the end of the war in 1945, he finally worked at the tax office for transport taxes in Hamburg; in June 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He was u. a. employed as a finance inspector for the district chief in the Radom district in occupied Poland.

After 1945

On May 4, 1948, Geigenmüller, who meanwhile lived in Quickborn (Schleswig-Holstein), was sentenced to a fine of RM 2,000 by the Hiddesen court for “belonging to a criminal organization” . He later worked at the Cologne-Land tax office.

literature

• Hermann-J. Rupieper, Alexander Sperk (ed.): The situation reports of the Secret State Police on the Province of Saxony (1933-1936) , Volume 2: Merseburg District, Halle (Saale): Mitteldeutscher Verlag mdv, 2004, ISBN 3-89812-214-X .