SS guard Eimann
The SS guard Eimann was a special SS unit that existed from summer to autumn 1939 on the territory of the Free City of Danzig and was subsequently incorporated into the death's head associations . Other names for this SS unit are also SS-Sturmbann Eimann and SS-Sondersturmbann "E" .
history
On July 3, 1939, the then "Plenipotentiary of the Danzig Senate for Political Affairs", SS Brigade Leader Johannes Schäfer , set up the so-called SS Guard Tower "E" from members of the Danziger SS Standard 36. The commander of this newly established SS unit was SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Eimann , who also directed the Danzig SS standard. Officially, the guard guard "E" (the "E" stood for Eimann) was an armed reserve storm guard of the Danziger SS and was formally set up as a reinforced SS police reserve for special tasks . In fact, this Sturmbann was a unit of the SS Security Service and subordinated to the Danzig Police President. Staff leader of this SS unit was Max Pauly .
In June 1939, construction crews of the Danzig SS and the guard tower began to set up various "provisional internment camps" in the Danzig area. Meanwhile, under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Erich Gunst, a construction team began to set up an "SS special camp" northwest of the village of Stutthof. All “internment camps” in the Polish Corridor and the “ Stutthof Special Camp ” were organizationally under Pauly from June 1939 to January 7, 1942. The guard guard "E", which was renamed a little later to guard guard "Eimann", also infiltrated the emerging " German self-protection associations " in the ethnic German areas of the corridor , in which the Danzig SS indirectly equipped them with weapons and trained them militarily via the guard guard. Many commanders of these "self-protection groups" also came directly from the Danzig guard tower.
After the so-called reunification of Gdańsk with the German Reich on September 1st, the guard tower "Eimann" formed the cadre of the newly established "Special Camp Stutthof" and was mainly used by the German government for "special police tasks" in the new " Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ", that is for the persecution and internment of Polish Jews .
With the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the "Eimann" guard was one of the irregular aid organizations. In a letter, Himmler accused the then HSSPF Danzig-West Prussia, Richard Hermann Hildebrandt , of having set up a “special association for special disposal” for selfish reasons. Himmler later: "You will agree with me that this would have ended the SS as a unified organization."
The guard tower "Eimann" was dissolved together with the SS Heimwehr Danzig on September 30, 1939 and converted into the " SS Totenkopfsturmbann KL Stutthof ".
In the massacre in Piaśnica , a town around 30 kilometers northwest of Gdynia , shortly after the occupation of Poland, over 10,000 people, including at least 1200 patients from sanatoriums and nursing homes, were shot dead under the command of Kurt Eimann.
From June 1939 to May 1945, the Stutthof concentration camp guards consisted of around 2500 people, many of whom were women.
Structure of the security guard "E"
- commander
- SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Eimann
- Battle Rules
- command
- I. Hundreds
- II. Hundreds
- III. Hundreds
- IV. Hundreds
- Motor team
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Schultz, Günter Wegmann and Dieter Zinke: Germany's Generals and Admirals - Part V: The Generals of the Waffen-SS and the Police 1933–1945 , Volume 2, Biblio-Verlag Bissendorf 2005, p. 209 (footnote in the article Richard Hermann Hildebrandt ).
literature
- Rolf Michaelis : The History of the SS Home Guard Danzig. Publishing house for contemporary military history, Rodgau 1990.