SS Junk School Prague-Dewitz

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The building now houses the Rector's Office of the Technical University .

The SS Junker School in Prague-Dewitz was in the era of National Socialism one of four military schools ( military schools ) in which the Waffen-SS was training its military offspring. It existed from 1944 to 1945 and was located in the north-western Prague district of Dejvice (German: Dewitz ).

Structure and history

The school was established in the early summer of 1944 on the orders of the SS Leadership Main Office. The SS worked for the Allied air raids on Berlin on a relocation of many of its facilities into the " Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ". The SS Junker School in Prague-Dewitz was housed in the building of the New Technical University , which at that time had the address Bei der Neuen Technik 14, Prague XIX (today: ul. Zikova). It started operating on July 3, 1944.

The teaching program of the SS Junker School in Prague-Dewitz included, in addition to war Junker courses, in which junior commanders of the Waffen SS were trained, courses for disabled SS Junkers.

It was divided into a teaching group with 4 inspections (for example: departments), each comprising 3–4 junkers. In August 1944, a fifth inspection was added, in which medical officer candidates were trained. The school was commanded by SS-Standartenführer Wolfgang Jörchel (1907–1945). Jörchel, a graduate of the SS Junker School Bad Tölz , had last commanded the SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Regiment 48 “General Seyffardt”, had been a Knight's Cross holder since April 1944 and rose to the rank of Standartenführer in the Waffen SS in September 1944 on. On May 12, 1945 he died in Prague after being arrested by Czech people under unknown circumstances.

The school was closed on April 13, 1945. Teaching staff and course participants were transferred to different locations:

  • some of the course participants on field units of the Waffen-SS
  • a part of the teaching staff and course participants of the 1st and 2nd inspection to Prague-Rusin ( Ruzyně ), where they were integrated into the SS regiment "Moravia"
  • Parts of the course on the "Bohemia" military training area
  • Course participants from the flak inspection for the SS-Alarm-Flak-Batterie Prague

To the training facilities that used the Junkerschule, counted and the at Benešov (dt. Beneschau) preferred SS-Truppenübungsplatz Bohemia .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Richard Schulze-Kossens : Military leaders of the Waffen-SS . 2nd Edition. Munin, Osnabrück 1982, ISBN 3-921242-71-1 , p. 73 .
  2. ^ Jan Björn Potthast: The Jewish Central Museum of the SS in Prague: Research on opponents and genocide under National Socialism . Campus, Frankfurt, New York 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-37060-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. Josef Pfitzner: Úřední korespondence Josefa Pfitznera s Karlem Hermannem Frankem . Scriptorium, 2000, p. 156 .
  4. Joerchel, Wolfgang. Retrieved February 8, 2018 . Wolfgang Jörchel. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 8 ″  N , 14 ° 23 ′ 18.6 ″  E