Paul Otto Geibel

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Paul Otto Geibel (1944)

Paul Otto Geibel (born June 10, 1898 in Dortmund ; † November 12, 1966 in Warsaw ) was a German SS-Brigadführer (1944), Major General of the Police (1944) and from March 1944 the last SS and Police Leader (SSPF) Warsaw.

Career

After attending secondary school, Geibel took part in the First World War as a soldier . He worked as an insurance agent and joined the NSDAP ( membership number 761.353) and SA in December 1931 and the SS (SS number 313.910) in July 1938.

From the beginning of April 1935 he worked for the police and from 1941 in the main office of the Ordnungspolizei . There he acted as office group chief in office group command II from October 1942 to March 1944. From late March 1944 to February 1, 1945 he was SS and police leader in Warsaw. After the failed Warsaw Uprising , the planned destruction of the city of Warsaw ("loosening, clearing, paralyzing and destroying measures") from October 1944 to January 1945 was under his command. He was then until May 8, 1945 in command of the Ordnungspolizei in Prague .

After the end of the war, Geibel was sentenced to five years imprisonment by Czech courts because of his SS membership. After serving this sentence, he was extradited to Poland. There he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1954 for his activities as SSPF Warsaw, especially during the Warsaw Uprising. Geibel committed suicide while in custody in November 1966.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
  • Timm C. Richter: War and crime: situation and intention: case studies , Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-89975-080-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timm C. Richter: War and crime: situation and intention: case studies . Martin Meidenbauer Verlag 2006, p. 131.
  2. ↑ a b c Dermot Bradley: The Generals of the Waffen-SS and the Police , Vol. 1, ISBN 3-7648-2373-9 ; P. 360ff.
  3. ↑ German Historical Institute Warsaw : Bulletin 2005, No. 12, p. 55 ( Bulletin ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this note .; PDF file; 362 kB). Ralph Giordano : Speech on the 60th return of the Warsaw Uprising of August 1, 1944 on July 19, 2004 in the French Friedrichstadtkirche on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt ( Speech, p. 6. ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF file; 51 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dhi.waw.pl
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  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 177.
  5. ^ Timm C. Richter: War and crime: situation and intention: case studies , Martin Meidenbauer Verlag 2006. S. 128ff.
personal data
SURNAME Geibel, Paul Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Brigade Leader, Major General of the Police and SSPF Warsaw
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1966
Place of death Warsaw