Paul Sharp

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Paul Scharfe (born September 6, 1876 in Danzig ; † July 29, 1942 in Starnberg ) was a German officer, most recently an SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS during the National Socialist era . He was the first head of the newly established main SS court office .

Life

Scharfe, the son of a headmaster, became an army lieutenant in 1897 after graduating from high school and military school . He was a regimental comrade of Paul Hausser , whom he was supposed to entice from the SA to the SS in the 1930s .

After his marriage in 1903, he became a lieutenant reservist in order to switch to the police force. In the First World War he was deployed as a company and battalion leader on the Polish front in 1914/15. In 1919 he was expelled from Poland. In 1921 he was taken over by the security police in Halle, and in 1931 he retired as a lieutenant colonel in Berlin.

On October 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 665.697) and the SS (SS number 14.220), where he made a career.

After the " seizure of power " in June 1933, he was appointed head of the SS court in Munich , which had been newly created by Heinrich Himmler and which was affiliated to the SS (main) office until July 1935. After that this office was subordinate to the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS . In June 1939 he was appointed the first head of the newly established main SS court office in Munich. Scharfe had no legal background.

“The SS man naturally has a special position compared to the simple PG, especially in that he has to protect the movement and its leaders by giving his life if necessary. This special position [...] naturally entails special treatment for the SS man in the wake. "

On April 20, 1942 he was appointed SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. He died of a heart attack in July 1942. His successor and last head of office was Franz Breithaupt from August 15, 1942 .

On Himmler's instructions, the house of the late Swiss poet Georg Binding in Starnberg (Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße 3) was purchased for his widow .

Among other things, Scharfe received the Iron Cross 2nd Class in 1914 and was awarded the War Merit Cross 2nd and 1st Class (each with swords). The SS awarded Scharfe the ring of honor ("skull ring "), and he also received the sword of honor from the Reichsführer SS .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Heinz Höhne : The order under the skull - The history of the SS , Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-89350-549-0 .
  • Franz W. Seidler : SS special jurisdiction. Pp. 201-211, especially pp. 202 f. In: ders .: The military jurisdiction of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945. Herbig 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz W. Seidler: SS special jurisdiction . In: ders .: The military jurisdiction of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 . Herbig 1991., p. 202ff
  2. ↑ Bastian Hein: Elite for people and leaders? The General SS and its members 1925–1945. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70936-0 , p. 192.
  3. ↑ Paul Scharfe on the SS jurisdiction on the occasion of a group leader meeting from January 23 to 25, 1939 in Berlin, quoted in: Heinz Höhne: The Order under the Skull - The History of the SS , Augsburg 1998, p. 140.
personal data
SURNAME Sharp, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1942
Place of death Starnberg