Ulrich Greifelt

Ulrich Greifelt before the trial of the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS

Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt (born December 8, 1896 in Berlin ; † February 6, 1949 in Landsberg ) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Greifelt, the son of a pharmacist, took part in the First World War as a soldier . After the war he left the army with the rank of first lieutenant . He then belonged to a volunteer corps . During the Weimar Republic , Greifelt worked as an economist at a Berlin stock corporation until he was dismissed in 1932 due to the difficult economic situation in Germany.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Greifelt joined the NSDAP at the beginning of April 1933 ( membership number 1.667.407) and in June 1933 the SS (SS number 72.909). From August 1933 Greifelt was a consultant in the staff of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . From the beginning of March 1934 to mid-June 1934, Greifelt was executive chief of staff of the SS upper section Middle / Elbe and then until mid-January 1935 in the same function at the SS upper section Rhein / Rhein-Westmark / Westmark. Then he headed the central office of the SS main office .

In 1939 Greifelt was given the task of organizing the evacuation of 30,000 South Tyroleans . After the beginning of the Second World War , Greifelt was appointed head of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity in October 1939 . He was significantly involved in the "planning and implementation of the population shift within the framework of the General Plan East ". In 1940, for example, he was a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhand . In the SS, Greifelt rose to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police on January 30, 1944 .

After the end of the Second World War, Greifelt was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 10, 1948 in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS as the person primarily responsible for the expulsion of people from Slovenia , Alsace , Lorraine and Luxembourg . He died while imprisoned in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 1st and 2nd class
Wound badge (1918) in black
War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class with swords
Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
SS skull ring
Badge for observation officers Luftwaffe (1914)
Badge of Honor for German People's Care 2 Kl. Steckkreuz

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
From order no. 67/1 from SS-Gruppenführer Ulrich Greifelt, head of the RKF's main staff office , dated February 19, 1942 on the Germanization of children from Polish families and orphanages. in the collection Night over Europe, Ed. Wolfgang Schumann u. a., Vol. 2: The fascist occupation policy in Poland 1939 - 1945. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften , Berlin 1989 (here series title Europa under the swastika !) ISBN 3-326-00294-7 ; 2nd edition Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1992 ISBN 3-7609-1260-5 (1st edition: licensed edition, ibid., Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-89144-292-0 ) p. 215 f.

Web links

Short biography Ulrich Greifelt (Polish)
Interrogations of Ulrich Greifelt in the context of the Nuremberg trials . In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-0718 ( online , PDF; minutes of Greifelt's interrogations in the context of the Nuremberg trials).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Heinz Höhne: The Order under the Skull - The History of the SS , Augsburg 1998, p. 283.
^ ^A ^b Bastian Hein: Elite for people and leaders? The General SS and its Members 1925–1945 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, p. 75.
^ ^A ^b ^c Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karl Heinz Roth: Short biographies on the medical process . In: Klaus Dörner (Ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. , Munich 2000, p. 92.
↑ Andreas Strippel: NS-Volkstumsppolitik and the reorganization of Europe- Racial Political Selection of the Central Office for Immigrants of the Chief of the Security Police and the SD (1939-1945), Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77170-4 , p. 68.
↑ Moscow paid , in: DER SPIEGEL 51/1961, pp. 58–61.
^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 198.
↑ On the robbery of small children (2–6 years) and their handover to the Lebensborn , or to SS families (for older people). The German awareness that child robbery was a crime under international law is remarkable; Greifelt stipulated the linguistic regulation: "German orphans from the regained eastern territories" instead of the correct term "Germanizable Polish children."

personal data
SURNAME	Greifelt, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Greifelt, Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Obergruppenführer, lieutenant general of the police and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1949
Place of death	Landsberg

[Höhne283-1] Heinz Höhne: The Order under the Skull - The History of the SS , Augsburg 1998, p. 283.

[Hein295-2] A ^b Bastian Hein: Elite for people and leaders? The General SS and its Members 1925–1945 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, p. 75.

[Ebbinghaus/Roth92-3] A ^b ^c Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karl Heinz Roth: Short biographies on the medical process . In: Klaus Dörner (Ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. , Munich 2000, p. 92.

[4] Andreas Strippel: NS-Volkstumsppolitik and the reorganization of Europe- Racial Political Selection of the Central Office for Immigrants of the Chief of the Security Police and the SD (1939-1945), Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77170-4 , p. 68.

[5] Moscow paid , in: DER SPIEGEL 51/1961, pp. 58–61.

[Klee198-6] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 198.

[7] On the robbery of small children (2–6 years) and their handover to the Lebensborn , or to SS families (for older people). The German awareness that child robbery was a crime under international law is remarkable; Greifelt stipulated the linguistic regulation: "German orphans from the regained eastern territories" instead of the correct term "Germanizable Polish children."