Paul Worm

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Paul Ernst Worm (born February 13, 1893 in Russenau , Marienwerder district , † April 7, 1946 in Bautzen ) was a German police officer, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the police .

Life

Worm joined the 2nd Warmian Infantry Regiment No. 151 after his school days in 1912 , attended the war school and took part in the First World War, most recently from May 1915 as an aircraft observer at Feldfliegerabteilung 37. At the end of April 1919, Worm left the army. From May to October 1919 he was a member of a volunteer corps , then until 1921 of the German National Guard and Defense Association . In October 1919 he joined the police force and during the Weimar Republic worked in Prussia, initially as a leader of the Hundreds of the Schutzpolizei at different locations, from 1927 as district chief at the police administration in Berlin and from 1931 as a police instructor.

At the time of National Socialism , Worm was a liaison officer of the state police with the Gumbinnen government from mid-April 1934 to the end of May 1935 . From the end of June 1936 to mid-March 1938 he acted as a consultant in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and headed the protection police group in the personnel office at the staff of the chief of the police . Worm, who had already joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.410.685) at the beginning of December 1932 , also joined the SS in 1938 (SS number 307.789) and was assigned to the staff of the SS Upper Section Southwest. From the end of March 1938 to the end of April 1939 he was the commander of the security police in Stuttgart and then, following the annexation of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich, in the same function in Vienna . From late May 1939 to mid-February 1940 he was the commander of the Police Regiment 2 Moravia.

From October 25, 1941 to June 24, 1942, Worm was the commander of the police in German-occupied Poland in the Radom district of the so-called General Government , where he was subordinate to Police Regiment 24 Radom. In this function he was deeply involved in the Nazi persecution of Jews . In the course of the “fur campaign” carried out from December 24, 1941 to January 7, 1942, during which the local Jewish population was forced to surrender all furs to the German occupiers, Worm stated the following in writing: “If after 7.1.1942 with Jews If fur coats, furs or skins are found, those affected and the Jewish councils will be shot ”. From the summer of 1941 he was also the commander of the Lviv police regiment . In July 1942 he became commander of the Police Regiment Mitte (13). The Police Regiment 13 (also Kampfgruppe Worm) took part under the leadership of Kampfgruppe von Gottberg for three weeks from mid-January 1943 on in the Harvest Festival I and II in German-occupied Belarus, which took place in the course of the fight against partisans (Nazi jargon "Gangenkampf ") were carried out. As part of these two actions there were also war crimes against the civilian population, including the murder of the entire village population of Volosatsch, a total of 106 men, women and children. At the beginning of May 1944 he was promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Police, the highest ranks within the SS and police he achieved. At the beginning of September 1944 he was adopted into retirement.

After the war, Worm was interned by the Soviets ; he died in April 1946 in the Bautzen special camp .

Awards (selection)

Worms SS and police ranks in World War II
date rank
October 1940 Colonel of the security police
November 1940 SS standard leader
November 1943 SS-Oberführer
October 1940 Major General of the Police
May 1944 SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police
  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class and 1st class each with a clasp (1942 and 1943)
  • Saxon Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Albrecht Order with Crown and Swords (1917)
  • War Merit Cross I (1942) and II. Class (1941) with swords
  • Hungarian Medal of Honor of the World War 1914–1918 with swords
  • Austrian Medal of Honor of World War 19141918 with swords
  • Bulgarian Medal of Honor from World War 1914–1918 with swords
  • Cross of Honor of the World War 1914–1918 with swords (1934)

literature

  • Thierry Tixier: General-SS, Police et Waffen-SS Officiers, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics. Volume 2, December 2016, ISBN 978-1-32654-867-4 , p. 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Robert Seidel: German Occupation Policy in Poland - The Radom District 1939-1945. Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-506-75628-2 . P. 75
  2. ↑ Quoted by Wolfgang Curilla : Der Judenmord in Polen and the German Ordnungspolizei 1939–1945 , Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77043-1 , p. 425
  3. ↑ The Police Battalion 307 (Lübeck) "im Osteinsatz" 1940-1945 , catalog for the exhibition of the Schleswig-Holstein State Police, Police Directorate Schleswig-Holstein South (Lübeck) in cooperation with the State Police Hamburg, State Police School, p. 42
  4. ^ Jörg Morré: Book of the Dead Bautzen Special Camp 1945–1956 (1), Dresden 2004, Sächsische Gedenkstätten Foundation. ISBN 3-934382-08-8 , p. 113
personal data
SURNAME Worm, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worm, Paul Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer, most recently SS brigade leader and major general of the police
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Russenau , Marienwerder district
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1946
Place of death Bautzen