Werner Bracht

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Werner Bracht (born February 5, 1888 in Berlin , † September 21, 1980 in Eschweiler ) was a German lawyer, ministerial official, SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police.

Life

Werner Bracht was the younger brother of the later Lord Mayor of Essen and Minister of the Interior in the Papen Franz Bracht cabinet . He graduated after high school to study law and a doctorate on Dr. jur. He began his legal traineeship in 1910. In the same year Bracht did his one-year service in the 2nd Leib-Hussar Regiment "Queen Victoria of Prussia" No. 2 in Danzig-Langfuhr .

From 1914 he took part in the First World War, first with the Baden Foot Artillery Regiment No. 14 , later with the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 21, was promoted to Lieutenant of the Reserve in April 1918 and was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross .

After the end of the war he entered the Prussian civil service as a government assessor in 1918 and became deputy district administrator in Greifswald . Promoted to government assessor , he was transferred to the regional council in Münster in 1919 and appointed to the government council in 1922 . From 1923 he temporarily headed the Mülheim / Ruhr police office . Appointed to the senior government council, he became chief police officer in Düsseldorf in 1926 .

From 1927 he worked as a general budget officer in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, where he was appointed Ministerialrat in the following year and Ministerialdirigenten in 1934 . Bracht, a member of the center from 1926 to 1933 , became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2.579.550) when the National Socialists came to power in 1933 . From 1934 he was also active in the Reich Ministry of the Interior .

From June 1936 to August 1943 he headed the Office V (Administration and Law) in the Ordnungspolizei with the rank of Major General of the Police. At the end of October 1938 he joined the SS as SS-Obersturmbannführer . From this point on he was an SS leader on the staff of the Reichsführer of the SS until the end of the war . On April 20, 1939, he was appointed SS Brigade Leader and exactly two years later SS Group Leader . He was also promoted to lieutenant general of the police. In personal union, he was briefly deputy of the Reich Governor in the Sudetenland , Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein , with whom there were, however, disputes over competence. From autumn 1943 until the end of the war in May 1945, he was the Reich Finance Minister's agent for reviewing the course of business of the upper Reich authorities.

After the end of the war, Bracht lived in Detmold . His estate is in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives, East Westphalia-Lippe Department .

literature

  • On the history of the Ordnungspolizei 1936–1945 , 1. Hans Joachim Neufeldt: Development and organization of the Ordnungspolizei main office . In: Schriften des Bundesarchivs, Edition 3, H. Boldt Verlag, 1957, p. 107.
  • Gertraud Grünzinger: Documents on Church Policy of the Third Reich: the time of the Second World War (September 1939 – May 1945). 1939–1945 , Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008, p. 591.
  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Andreas Schulz , Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 1: Abraham – Gutenberger. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2003. ISBN 3-7648-2373-9 . Pp. 138-140.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Bracht estate at www.archive.nrw.de
personal data
SURNAME Bracht, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, ministerial official and SS group leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1980
Place of death Eschweiler