Richard Kaaserer

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Richard Kaaserer (born August 21, 1896 in Trento , † January 1947 in Belgrade ) was an Austrian SS-Oberführer and Colonel of the Police as well as SS and Police Leader (SSPF).

Career

Richard Kaaserer was the son of a gendarmerie lieutenant accounting officer. After attending primary school and two years of high school in his hometown, he switched to the military lower secondary school in Straß and then to the military upper secondary school in Mährisch-Weißkirchen . Kaaserer served in World War I at a Croatian infantry regiment of the Imperial Army and after the war was a career officer until 1922 in the Austrian army. From 1922 to 1925 he belonged to the Oberland Bund and from 1928 to 1932 to the Styrian Homeland Security . From 1930 he was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.087.778) and from 1932 the SS (membership number 9.774 ). From 1932 on he also kept SS standards in Vienna. Kaaserer, who fled to Germany in July 1933 and returned to Austria in 1934, was imprisoned in Austria from July 1934 to October 1937 because of his National Socialist sentiments.

From 1937 he was a full-time SS leader and from December 1939 worked at the immigrant central office in Litzmannstadt . From the end of 1940 to the summer of 1943 he was employed at the Race and Settlement Main Office, first as head of the family office and then also as head of the pedigree office. From June 1942 Kaaserer was also a member of the Waffen-SS and there until the beginning of 1943 was commander of the 1st battalion of the SS-Gebirgs-Jäger-Regiment 2 of the 7th SS-Gebirgs-Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen" . Kaaserer was charged before the Supreme SS and Police Court in Munich in the summer of 1943 for the mistreatment and degrading treatment of ethnic German recruits in his unit and was then severely reprimanded by Heinrich Himmler .

It is not certain whether he was deployed as a police area leader in Knin from July 1943 to May 1944 ; in any case he was a member of the staff of the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in Croatia, Konstantin Kammerhofer . On May 14, 1944, Himmler relieved SS-Oberführer Kaaserer from his post as SS and Police Leader (SSPF) in Croatia because "in relation to alcohol and women, especially in the Balkans, he does not show the self-control that must be expected" . From June 1944 to November 1944 he was SSPF Sandžak and then SSPF Central Norway until the end of the war . After the war he was arrested in Norway and extradited to Yugoslavia . Kaaserer was sentenced to death in Belgrade and executed in January 1947 .

Awards

Kaaserer's SS and police ranks
date rank
November 1933 SS-Obersturmbannführer
June 1938 SS standard leader
November 1940 SS-Oberführer and Colonel of the Police
June 1942 SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
October 1942 SS-Sturmbannführer of the reserve (Waffen-SS)

literature

  • Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
  • Isabel Heinemann: “Race, Settlement, German Blood”: The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe . Wallstein, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89244-623-7 .
  • Markus Leniger: National Socialist “Volkstumsarbeit” and resettlement policy 1933–1945: From the care of minorities to the selection of settlers. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86596-082-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 295f.
  2. ↑ a b c Isabel Heinemann: "Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the new racial policy in Europe, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003, p. 622.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 296
  4. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Finding files: In the SS there was "drunkenness" and "megalomania" . In: THE WORLD . May 16, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed on May 16, 2020]).
  5. ^ Biography of Richard Kaaserer ( Memento from June 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Richard Kaaserer ( Memento from March 2, 2010 on WebCite ) on Axis Biographical Research (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kaaserer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Oberführer as well as SS and police leaders
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Trent
DATE OF DEATH January 1947
Place of death Belgrade