Thomas Girgensohn

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Thomas Girgensohn (born May 11, 1898 in the Grunewald colony ; † May 31, 1973 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a German officer and SA leader, most recently with the rank of group leader .

Life

Thomas Girgensohn was the son of the historian Joseph Girgensohn and his wife Charlotta (Lotta), nee Schummer. He joined the German Army as an officer candidate in December 1914 while he was still in school after the outbreak of the First World War . As a result of a war wound, he lost his left leg in 1915. During a stay in a hospital, he passed his Abitur in 1917 . He then worked as a staff officer and was awarded the Iron Cross after the end of the war with the rank of lieutenant .

Then Girgensohn was chief of staff of the strike force of the Baltic State Army as a Baltic Rittmeister . After he left the Baltic State Army in November 1919, he began studying law and political science and later worked in the printing industry. However, he was still active in paramilitary groups, so in 1920 with the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade , then with the Upper Silesian Self-Protection and from 1922 to 1928 with the Reich Association of Baltic Fighters . From 1928 he belonged to the steel helmet , where he rose to regimental commander of the Wehrstahlhelm .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Girgensohn was incorporated into SA Reserve I of the SA Group Berlin-Brandenburg from November 1933 in the course of the transfer of the Stahlhelm to the SA and finally taken over into the SA. From 1934 until the end of the war in 1945 he worked full-time for the Supreme SA leadership . a. he headed the evaluation department in the main education office. He was promoted to Standartenführer in 1935, to Brigadführer in 1941 and to Gruppenführer in 1944. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP .

literature

  • Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2004, ISBN 978-0-8131-9098-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volumes 92–111, CA Starke, 1989, p. 207.
  2. ↑ Who's who in Germany 1990 , Who's Who the International red series, 1990, part 1, p. 459.
  3. ↑ a b c Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism. 2004, pp. 133-135.
  4. ^ Claus Grimm: Before the gates of Europe 1918–1920. History of the Baltic State Army. Velmede, Hamburg 1963, p. 307.
  5. ↑ Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky 2004, p. 226.
personal data
SURNAME Girgensohn, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader and paramilitary activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Grunewald Colony
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1973
Place of death Bonn-Bad Godesberg