SD upper section
From 1933 to 1945 certain regional areas of responsibility of the security service of the SS as well as the SD units entrusted with the surveillance of these areas were designated as SD upper sections . In a figurative sense, the headquarters of the SD units responsible for a specific upper section were also referred to as upper sections.
organization
At the time of the greatest expansion of the security service, there were a total of eleven SD upper sections:
- SD upper section Danube
- SD upper section middle
- SD upper section north
- SD upper section north-east
- SD upper section north-west
- SD Upper Section East
- SD upper section of the Rhine
- SD upper section south
- SD upper section south-east
- SD upper section south-west
- SD Upper Section West
The SD upper sections were subordinate to the SD main office as a superior body. For their part, they were the superiors of two to three so-called SD sections working in their area. These, in turn, were subordinated to full-time and voluntary branch offices.
The SD upper sections at a glance
Danube
The SD upper section of the Danube was founded after Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938. He was housed in Theresianumgasse 16/18 in Vienna . Its head was temporarily Erich Naumann .
center
The upper section middle was located at Oststrasse 65 in Chemnitz . Lothar Beutel was temporarily responsible for his leadership .
North
The north upper section was located at Falkenwalderstrasse 179 in Stettin . Its leader was at times Standartenführer Schulz.
Northeast
The north-east upper section was located at Herzog-Albrecht-Allee 16 in Königsberg . Rust was its head at times.
Northwest
The north-west upper section was located at Kaiserallee 8 in Hanover . Its leader was among others Joachim Mrugowsky .
east
The SD upper section east was initially housed in Eichenallee 16/18 in Berlin-Westend and later in Jagowstraße 16-18 in Grunewald .
The first leader of the upper section was Hans Kobelinski , followed by Hermann Behrends . Other well-known employees of the upper section were Werner Göttsch , Alfred Naujocks and Richard Pruchtnow .
In the Upper Section East, information was collected in 1934 that contributed to the brief overthrow of Diels during the power struggle between Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich with Hermann Göring and Rudolf Diels over control of the Gestapo .
Rhine
The upper section of the Rhine was housed in Niedenau 68 in Frankfurt am Main . Obersturmführer Böhm was temporarily entrusted with its management.
Southeast
The upper section southeast was temporarily housed in Friedrich-Hebbelstrasse 1/38 in Breslau . Its director was Ernst Müller .
south
The upper section south was located at Leopoldstrasse 10 in Munich .
southwest
The upper section south-west was located at Kernerstrasse 52 in Stuttgart-East . Obersturmführer Scheel was entrusted with its management until 1939 . The SD sections Karlsruhe, Neustadt aW and Stuttgart were subordinate to him. The official seat of the Stuttgart section, whose name was "SD section X Württemberg" until the end of May 1936, then "SD subsection Württemberg-Hohenzollern" and from September 26, 1939 "SD master section Stuttgart", was initially Kanzleistraße 36, then Schellingstraße 19 and since November 1939 Reinsburgstrasse 32/34, the house of the inspector of the security police and the SD . The SD-section or the leading section Stuttgart comprised 5 full-time branch offices, namely Heilbronn, Reutlingen, Stuttgart, Tübingen, Ulm and 64 volunteers. An unknown number of branches belonged to the full-time branch in Stuttgart.
west
The SD Upper Section West was located at Goltsteinstrasse 3 in Düsseldorf . Its director was Alfons Glatzel .
literature
- Shlomo Aronson : Heydrich and the beginnings of the SD , 1966.
- Carsten Schreiber: Elite in secret. Ideology and regional rule of the SD in Saxony , 2008.