Paul Hirschberg

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Paul Hirschberg (born June 13, 1901 in Strasbourg , Alsace ; † April 7, 1999 in Stuttgart-Riedenberg ) was a German paramilitary activist and SS leader , most recently with the rank of SS standard leader . He became known as one of the defendants in the so-called "Little Hitler Trial" of 1924.

Life and activity

In the summer of 1923 in Munich, Hirschberg joined the so-called Adolf Hitler raid, a personal bodyguard organized under paramilitary conditions for the head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), with whom he took part in the Hitler putsch on November 8 and 9, 1923 . After the coup was suppressed, he was arrested.

In April 1924, Hirschberg was sentenced to fifteen months of imprisonment with the prospect of early release after serving a few months as part of the trial of forty members of the raiding party before the Munich People's Court (so-called "Little Hitler Trial"). He was then taken to the Landsberg Fortress , where he shared his captivity with Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Hermann Kriebel , Friedrich Weber and twenty-one other raiding troops.

After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in the spring of 1925, Hirschberg joined it again ( membership number 907). Around 1931 he also became a member of the SS (SS no. 99.829).

From 1938 Hirschberg worked as a staff and section leader in the security service of the Reichsführer SS . For the year 1939 he can be verified as SS-Obersturmbannführer as head of the SS security service in Chemnitz. In October 1940, Hirschberg was appointed commander of the Bernau SD school. In 1942, Hirschberg was reassigned to the General SS because the SD leadership had come to the conclusion that Hirschberg, as the Einsatzkommandofführer in Alsace, had shown himself to be “not up to the task [...] purely objective”. On January 30, 1943, Hirschberg achieved his highest SS rank with the promotion to Standartenführer.

From 1943 to 1945 Hirschberg led the 54th SS standard "Seidel-Dittmarsch".

literature

  • Jens Banach: Heydrich's elite. The Leadership Corps of the Security Police and the SD 1936–1945 . Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-506-77506-5 , p. 280.
  • Adolf Diamant: Gestapo Chemnitz and the Gestapo branches in Plauen iV and Zwickau . Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 1999, ISBN 3-910186-22-X , p. 377.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth certificate of the Strasbourg / Alsace registry office dated June 17, 1901, No. 2163/1901.
personal data
SURNAME Hirschberg, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paramilitary activist and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1999
Place of death Stuttgart-Riedenberg