Richard Jungclaus

R. Jungclaus, here in the rank of SS group leader

Richard Jungclaus (born March 17, 1905 in Freiburg / Elbe ; † April 15, 1945 in Zavidovići ) was a German SS group leader and a lieutenant general of the police (1943) as well as Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Belgium-Northern France.

Career

Jungclaus, son of a businessman, completed an apprenticeship as a textile merchant after leaving school and took over his father's business. He joined the SA and NSDAP in 1930 ( membership number 305.661) and switched from the SA to the SS in 1931 (SS number 7.368). From 1934 he worked full-time for the SS in various functions: from October 1937 to November 1938, he was in command of the 12th SS Standard in Lower Saxony and then until April 1942, in command of SS Section IV.

From August 1940 to April 1942 he worked as an advisor to the Dutch SS , then until August 1944 he was head of the Brussels “Jungclaus Office” as Heinrich Himmler’s representative for ethnicity issues and for looking after the Flemish SS.

From August 1, 1944 to September 16, 1944 Jungclaus was HSSPF Belgium-Northern France and from August 14, 1944 military commander Belgium-Northern France. When the Allied troops approached Brussels after landing in Normandy , Jungclaus ordered 5,000 political prisoners to be deported to Germany as hostages . On September 3, Jungclaus stopped the removal that had already started and ordered the prisoners to be handed over to the Red Cross. Previously, the surgeon Werner Wachsmuth , among others, had advocated the release of the prisoners, as he feared for the safety of German wounded who could no longer be evacuated from Brussels. According to Wachsmuth, Jungclaus was demoted personally by Himmler on September 16 and drafted into the Waffen SS as SS-Hauptsturmführer . Jungclaus fell as a member of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" during fighting in Yugoslavia in mid-April 1945.

Awards

Jungclaus' SS and police ranks
date	rank
April 1935	SS-Sturmbannführer
November 1936	SS-Obersturmbannführer
September 1937	SS standard leader
May 1940	SS-Untersturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
April 1941	SS-Oberführer
August 1941	SS-Obersturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
April 1942	SS Brigade Leader
July 1943	Major General of the Police
November 1943	SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
Late 1944	SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)

Iron Cross 2nd Class (1942)
War Merit Cross 1st and 2nd class with swords
Service awards of the NSDAP in silver and bronze

As an SS leader

Skull ring
Sword of honor
SS service awards

literature

Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. updated 2nd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Henning Müller: Richard Jungclaus. In: Jan Lokers u. a. (Ed.): Life courses between the Elbe and Weser: a biographical lexicon , Vol. II. Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2010, ISBN 978-3-931879-46-4 , pp. 164–169.
Henning Müller: The sad career of Richard Jungclaus: "Assaults and murders were immediately ... atoned for by shooting". In: Jahrbuch der Männer vom Morgenstern , Vol. 91. Bremerhaven 2013, ISBN 978-3-931771-91-1 , pp. 81-100.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Düsseldorf 1986, p. 333.
↑ Richard Jungclaus at www.dws-xip.p
↑ Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau: Reach for the West: The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919-1960) . Waxmann Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , p. 463 f.
^ Karl Philipp Behrendt: The war surgery from 1939-1945 from the point of view of the consulting surgeons of the German army in the Second World War. Dissertation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg 2003, p. 248 f. (PDF, 2.2 MB).

personal data
SURNAME	Jungclaus, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German policeman, lieutenant general of the police as well as higher SS and police leader
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg / Elbe
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1945
Place of death	Zavidovići

[Birn337-1] Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Düsseldorf 1986, p. 333.

[2] Richard Jungclaus at www.dws-xip.p

[3] Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau: Reach for the West: The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919-1960) . Waxmann Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , p. 463 f.

[4] Karl Philipp Behrendt: The war surgery from 1939-1945 from the point of view of the consulting surgeons of the German army in the Second World War. Dissertation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg 2003, p. 248 f. (PDF, 2.2 MB).