Siegfried Taubert (SS member)

Siegfried Taubert (born December 11, 1880 in Brallentin, Pomerania , † February 13, 1946 in Kiel ) was at the time of National Socialism Castle Captain of Wewelsburg and head of the SS school Haus Wewelsburg , SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS and Police general .

Life

Siegfried Taubert was born on December 11, 1880 in Brallentin as the son of a Protestant pastor. After graduating from high school, he embarked on a military career and was initially a flag junior in the Infantry Regiment Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig 57 in Wesel / Westphalia. His marriage to Arnoldine Johanna Juta from the Netherlands on May 5, 1904 resulted in three children, including Ilse, who married Ernst-Robert Grawitz , who later became the DRK boss in 1926 . From 1914 to 1918 he was a career officer in the First World War . In November 1919 he left the army with the rank of major . From 1921 to 1924 Taubert was managing director in the Pomeranian Landbund and leader in the Stahlhelm in the district of Greifenhagen . In August 1925 he sold the property he had acquired after the end of the war in the Greifenhagen district and from 1925 worked as a sales manager in a piano factory in Berlin. From the beginning of September 1929 to the beginning of October 1931 he worked as an insurance employee at the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Fund in Berlin and was then unemployed. Taubert was politically active in the Frontbann and in the Tannenbergbund .

In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 525.246) and the SS (SS number 23.128). He worked as a full-time SS leader under Kurt Daluege and was promoted to SS-Oberführer . From 1935 to 1938 he was head of staff in Reinhard Heydrich's SD main office and was promoted to SS brigade leader on September 13, 1936 . From 1938 to 1945 he was the second and last castle captain of the Wewelsburg after Manfred von Knobelsdorff , and also lay judge at the People's Court . His adjutant during the time as captain of the castle was Gottlieb Bernhardt . In 1943 he became SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS . On March 31, 1945 he fled from Wewelsburg to Schleswig-Holstein . There he died in Kiel in 1946 .

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
• Wound badge (1918) in black
• War Merit Cross (1939) with swords 2nd class
• Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
• SS skull ring

See also

• List of generals of the Waffen SS

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
• Kirsten John-Stucke: Wewelsburg 1933 - 1945. Cult and terror site of the SS (PDF; 5.1 MB)