Otto Sens
Otto Sens (born April 14, 1898 in Dessau , † April 7, 1970 in Hanover ) was a German Gestapo officer , SS leader and head of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe II in Poland .
Life
After attending school, Sens took part in the First World War as a member of the Imperial Navy . After the war he joined the III. Marine Brigade (Von Loewenfeld) and was involved in the fighting in Upper Silesia and the Ruhr area. After the failed Kapp Putsch , he ran his parents' business in Dessau.
Sens joined the NSDAP in 1930 ( membership number 278.102) and the SS in 1931 (SS number 23.662). In the SS, Sens was promoted to SS-Standartenführer in April 1944 .
After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he became head of the Anhalt Political Police in February 1934, from which the Dessau state police station emerged.
After the beginning of the Second World War , Sens was the leader of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe II, which murdered Polish intellectuals and Jews until November 1939.
Afterwards he was subordinate to the commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Krakow for the entire General Government. From October 1940 to mid-1941 Sens headed the Katowice State Police Station. He then headed the Koblenz state police station .
After the end of the war, Sens lived in Hanover. He was not prosecuted.
literature
- Klaus-Michael Mallmann , Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus : Task Force Groups in Poland: Presentation and Documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21353-5 . (Volume 12 of the publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart.)
- Alexander B. Rossino: Hitler strikes Poland - Blitzkrieg, Ideology and Atrocity , Kansas City 2003, ISBN 0700612343 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Alexander Sperk : Anhalt in the mirror of the situation reports of the secret state police and the state minister at the beginning of the National Socialism , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde, 14th year 2005, pp. 226–244, ISSN 1430-3647
- Alexander Sperk: State police station chief, Einsatzkommandofführer, officer in the security service of the SS - the career of Otto Sens from Dessau , in: Dessauer Calendar 2014, pp. 68–87, ISSN 0420-1264
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 27
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 579
- ↑ Otto Sens on www.dws-xip.pl
- ^ Israel Gutman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust - The persecution and murder of European Jews , Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1998, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 , Vol. 1, p. 395; Vol. 2 p. 393
- ↑ Task Force in Poland
- ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 107
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sens, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Gestapo employee, SS leader and head of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe II in Poland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1970 |
| Place of death | Hanover |