Paul Schmitz-Voigt

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Paul Schmitz-Voigt (born November 14, 1886 in Düsseldorf , † July 7, 1966 in Munich ) was a German police officer and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS Oberführer , Colonel of the Police and Higher Government Council .

Life

After completing secondary school , Schmitz joined the administration of the city of Düsseldorf in 1903. From October 1909 he did his one-year military service, which he finished with the rank of non-commissioned officer in the reserve. At the beginning of January 1910 he became civil servant. In October 1910 he was transferred to the Düsseldorf police, where he was already employed in the criminal police the following year and, after briefly deputy head of a local police station, was employed as a police and crime superintendent in Düsseldorf from the beginning of January 1913. After his marriage to Elisabeth Voigt, he called himself Schmitz-Voigt from July 1913. From September 1914 to November 1918 he took part in the First World War and most recently headed the political police and counter-espionage at the staff of the General Government of Belgium . After the end of the war, he retired from the German army with the rank of first lieutenant .

In early 1919 he became adjutant to the Düsseldorf police chief and from February 1919 was a liaison officer for the Bergmann Corps and the Lichtschlag Freikorps for one year . Afterwards he took over the management of the criminal police in Düsseldorf and from March 1920 additionally u. a. the local trade, welfare, veterinary and food police. During an anti-espionage mission in Holland that lasted from February to July 1921, he was expelled from the Rhineland by the Rhineland Commission. He then moved to Berlin , where, in addition to activities in police administration, he continued his education in law and police science. At the end of March 1925 he was appointed detective director and in July 1926 returned to the service of the Düsseldorf police administration. From January 1928 to March 1930, on leave from the police force in Düsseldorf, he was “organizer and instructor of the Chilean police” and an advisor to the Chilean government.

After his return to Germany, from March 1930 to March 1936 he again headed the criminal investigation department at the Düsseldorf Police Headquarters . Schmitz-Voigt, after the transfer of power to the Nazis in April 1933 the NSDAP ( member number 1996295) and SS (SS-Nr. 91739) joined, also belonged to the Reichsluftschutzbund and the Reich Federation of German officials to. From March 1936 he worked for the Research Office of the Reich Aviation Ministry and from April 1936 as a legal advisor on the staff of the SS Upper Section West in Düsseldorf. At the beginning of 1937 he was appointed government and criminal councilor and at the same time took over the deputy head of the Prussian state criminal police office under Arthur Nebe . From January 1938 to August 1939 he was in charge of the criminal police headquarters in Bremen . Promoted to Oberregierungs- and superintendent and SD displaced, he headed in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from the beginning of August 1939 to mid-March 1941, the criminal police in Prague and was a liaison officer to the staff of the commander of the Security Police and Security Service in Prague. From March 1941, he headed the criminal police headquarters in Munich. From February 1942 he was initially acting inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Munich, at times also in Nuremberg . He officially held this position in Munich from September 1942 until the end of the war in spring 1945. With the police he reached the rank of colonel of the police in October 1942 and rose to the rank of Oberführer in the SS in February 1944.

literature

  • Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch . Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmitz-Voigt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1966
Place of death Munich