Rudolf Siegert (SS member)

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Rudolf Siegert (* December 23, 1899 in statutes ; † April 24, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and SS leader. Siegert was Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Finance and head of Office Group II (Organization, Administration and Law) of the Reich Main Security Office .

Life

The son of a farmer studied law and received his doctorate in 1926 , Dr. jur. Then Siegert worked in the Saxon Ministry of Finance.

In 1933 Siegert joined the SA and from 1934 worked as a ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of Finance in Berlin . In 1936 he decided to join the Gestapo . Siegert became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 ( membership number 4,578,519) and of the SS in 1939 (SS number 347,050).

Promoted to SS-Standartenführer on August 1, 1940 , he headed Office Group II C a (Budget and Economy of the Security Police) and Section II C 1 (Budget and Salary) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). On November 19, 1942 he was entrusted with the management of Office II (organization, administration and law) of the RSHA in the successor to SS-Standartenführer Hans Nockemann , whom he had previously represented.

Siegert was promoted to SS-Oberführer on January 30, 1943. In that year he moved from the RSHA to the Ministry of Economics.

During the Battle of Berlin soldiers of the Red Army shot Siegert in his house.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 582.
  2. a b Götz Aly u. a .: German Reich 1938 - August 1939 , documents, series: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945. Volume 2) Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0 , p. 690
  3. Rudolf Siegert at www.dws-xip.pl