Otto Schumann (General)

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Schumann in Amsterdam (1940)

Heinrich Eduard Otto Schumann (born September 11, 1886 in Metz ; † November 8, 1952 in Detmold ) was a German officer, most recently lieutenant general of the police and SS group leader in World War II .

Life

Otto Schumann was the son of the prime lieutenant of the same name. After attending the Realgymnasium in Trier , he was from the beginning of April 1897 for military training in the cadet house Oranienstein and from April 1903 at the main cadet institute in Groß Lichterfelde . From mid-March 1907 he served with the rank of lieutenant in the 4th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 136 . At the beginning of October 1913 he moved to the Imperial Navy and took on as a naval officer a. a. continuously participated in the First World War as adjutant and battalion commander . He was discharged from the army with the rank of captain at the end of December 1919, having received several awards . From March to October 1919 he had joined a volunteer corps in East Prussia and was then a mobile district commissioner or, from the beginning of 1920, district councilor at the district administrator in Wehlau . From January 1920 to July 1921 he was a member of the DNVP . In mid-July 1921 he started working for the police in Königsberg , from June 1924 in Münster , from April 1928 in Hildesheim and from January 1933 in Hanover .

After the " seizure of power " he joined the NSDAP in 1933 ( membership number 1,753,690). From May 1935 he was commander of the police in Weissenfels . After being promoted from major to lieutenant colonel , from the end of January 1936 he was initially the commander of the police and from the beginning of November 1937 inspector of the police in Stettin (BdO) . On April 20, 1939, Schumann was accepted into the SS (SS-No. 327.367) and four months later promoted to SS-Standartenführer .

After the start of the Second World War , in the course of the attack on Poland, he was head of the police department at the staff of the CdZ of Army High Command 4. After the campaign in the west , he was in command of the Ordnungspolizei (BdO) in the German-occupied Netherlands from June 1940 to December 1942, based in The Hague and in this function responsible for the involvement of the police units subordinate to him in the repression of the Dutch population and in the deportation of Jews . From December 1942 to September 1943 he was inspector of the Ordnungspolizei in Military District VI with headquarters in Münster and was then on leave. He was reactivated from the beginning of March 1944 to October 1944. He worked as BdO in Military District XVII in Vienna and was finally released from police service at the end of December 1944. Thereafter belonged to the staff of the SS Upper Section West.

After the war he was from January to May 1946 in the Allied internment . From November 1948 he was awarded a pension.

Awards

Schumann's SS and police ranks
date rank
July 1936 Colonel of the security police
August 1938 SS standard leader
April 1940 SS-Oberführer
January 1941 SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police
August 1943 SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 277f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).

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personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumann, Heinrich Eduard Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS group leader and police general
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1952
Place of death Detmold