Paul Rieck

Paul Eduard Karl Rieck (born August 7, 1889 in Brunshaupten ) was a German SA leader . He was best known as the administrative leader of the SA group Berlin Brandenburg .

Life and activity

After attending elementary school and a high school for boys, Rieck was trained at an administration academy. From 1910 he was employed in the military administration.

At the First World War Rieck took the field paymaster part (from 1916 regimental paymaster). During the war he received the Iron Cross of both classes. He was then taken over into the provisional 200,000-man army to retire from the military on May 15, 1920.

In the years 1920 to 1922 Rieck was in the police administration service. From 1922 he was employed by the Reich Funds Authority and from 1927 by the Reich Customs Administration. In the latter he achieved the rank of senior official in the customs administration.

On December 1, 1931, Rieck was accepted into the Sturmabteilung. In this he was promoted in quick succession to squad leader (February 12, 1932), troop leader (March 5, 1932) and storm leader (May 1, 1932).

Rieck was admitted to the NSDAP on January 1, 1932 (membership number 855.424).

On July 15, 1932, Rieck became Referent IVa of the Berlin-East subgroup. On October 15, 1932, Rieck took over the post of sub-group money administrator for the SA sub-group Berlin East, with which he advanced to the leadership of the Berlin SA.

After the appointment of the leader of the SA sub-group Berlin East, Karl Ernst , as leader of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg in March 1933, Rieck von Ernst was appointed as the group's administrative manager on March 25, 1933. In this position he was promoted within a short time to Administrative Standartenführer (May 26, 1933) and Administrative Oberführer (August 1, 1933).

As the administrative manager of the Berlin SA group, Rieck was one of Karl Ernst's closest employees from the spring of 1933 to the summer of 1934 and was responsible for the administrative supervision and management of the SA in Berlin and Brandenburg, which last had around 200,000 men. In the course of the Nazi government's wave of political cleansing in the summer of 1934 ( Röhm affair ), Rieck was arrested but, unlike Ernst and other senior employees of the Berlin SA, was not executed.

As a result of the Führer order 61, Rieck was appointed as the treasurer of the SA group southwest on February 1, 1938.

From July 1, 1938, he ran the business of the treasurer of the SA group Niederrhein according to Führer's order no. 65. By the Führerbefehl 67 he was appointed the group's regular treasurer on November 1, 1938. As early as December 1, 1938, Rieck was given leave of absence as the treasurer of the SA Group Niederrhein, because he had informed the Supreme SA leadership without authorization that his superior, the leader of the group, Heinrich August Knickmann , was promoting one of his, Riecks, employees to a higher rank without actually having obtained their consent beforehand. He was also accused of intriguing against Knickmann and of having disavowed him with tactless behavior and spreading rumors: He was charged with having spread the claim that his superior was not behaving in an SA-like manner by running three radios at the group's expense and used it for his own purposes, so that he behaved like a "general director of the system time" and to have exposed him by instructing an employee loudly in front of other members of the group staff to deduct 3 RM from Knickmann's salary, as he did it failed to pay tickets for his wife and daughter for an advanced boxing event. Knickmann assessed these and similar actions by Rieck as damage to his authority and reputation.

From 1939 to 1941 Rieck worked in the administration of the Adolf Hitler donation for the German Labor Front . He then worked in the military administration.

In the SA Rieck was made available to the SA group Hansa on May 1, 1939. By the Führer order 76 he was transferred on February 1, 1941 as ZV leader of the SA group Hochland and by the Führer order No. 84 on March 1, 1943 as ZV leader of the Berlin-Brandenburg group.

estate

In the Federal Archives to personnel records have received to Rieck: So especially in the inventory of the former one SA-court record (SA-P microfilm D 222, images 249 to 909).

literature

• Bernhard Sauer: "Goebbels" Rabauken ". On the history of the SA in Berlin-Brandenburg ”, in: Uwe Schaper [Hrsg.]: Berlin in history and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives 2006 , Berlin 2006, pp. 107–164.