Reinhard Flesch

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Reinhard Flesch (born August 1, 1894 in Bamberg , † December 29, 1942 in Munich ) was a German detective and SS leader .

Live and act

After participating in the First World War , Flesch joined the Bavarian police in 1919, where he made it to the position of chief criminal inspector during the Weimar Republic . During this time he married Anny Pfraug (* 1901) on June 17, 1925. The marriage had four children.

When Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich took over the Bavarian police a few weeks after the National Socialist seizure of power , Flesch became one of their leading employees in the newly founded Bavarian Political Police (BPP), whose task was to fight the ideological opponents of the National Socialists in the Bavarian state. When Heydrich was appointed head of the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin in April 1934 - and thus took control of the Political Police in Prussia, by far the largest part of the German Reich - Flesch was next to Anton Dunckern , Heinrich Müller , Josef Meisinger and Franz Josef Huber (Flesch Group or Bajuwaren Brigade ) one of those officers of the Bavarian police who took Heydrich to Berlin. The purpose of this measure was to secure his position of power in the Secret State Police Office by filling management positions there with trusted and loyal employees of his Bavarian department.

According to the business distribution plan of October 25, 1934, Flesch and his former subordinate Müller jointly took over the management of subdivision II 1 ("ideological opponents") in the secret state police office. Up until he fell ill in 1935, Flesch was initially responsible for Section II 1 B (“Confessional Associations, Jews, Freemasons, Emigrants”), which was then also taken over by Müller. On December 1, 1935, Flesch - who wanted to return to his hometown due to his illness - was transferred back to the Bavarian Political Police at his own request in order to align the organization of this authority with that of the Gestapa and to take over the management of Department II of the BPP.

In March 1939, Flesch took over the management of Einsatzkommando II (Pilsen) , which was sent to Pilsen as part of the occupation of the so-called rest of Czech Republic in order to carry out special assignments there. In the following years, Flesch became a police officer and in the SS (SS no. 107.044) became Obersturmbannführer .

literature

  • Andreas Seeger: Gestapo-Müller: The career of a desk abuser . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-926893-28-1 .
  • Robert Thévoz, Hans Branig , Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel : Pommern 1934/35 as reflected in the Gestapo situation reports and case files. Presentation (= publications from the archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Volume 11/12), Grote, Cologne 1974.

Archival material

  • SSO file Reinhard Flesch, Führer personnel file.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schutzstaffel (SS), 1925-1945 . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . Table 9b
personal data
SURNAME Flesch, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and Gestapo employee
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1942
Place of death Munich