Werner Fromm

Werner Fromm (born April 9, 1905 in Husum , † May 10, 1981 in Bielefeld ) was a German SS-Oberführer and Colonel of the Police as well as SS and Police Leader (SSPF).

Life

Fromm, a bank clerk by profession, was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 753.170) and SS (SS number 17.080) from 1931 . From the early 1930s he was a full-time SS leader, including commander of the 60th SS standard based in Insterburg . After he had been employed by a communications unit from late 1939 to November 1940, he was employed by the HSSPF " Ostland " from September 1941 to December 1941. There he was assigned to Einsatzkommando 2 in Latvia . He then worked for the staff of the HSSPF "Russland-Süd" until January 1942. From mid-January 1942 to the end of January 1943 he was SSPF " Bialystok " and then until the end of April 1944 police area leader " Sarajevo ". Towards the end of the war he was transferred to the Waffen SS and served in the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer SS" .

After the war he worked as a merchant. Investigations initiated by the Hamburg public prosecutor were closed in 1974. Fromm died in May 1981.

Awards

Fromm's SS ranks
date	rank
March 1934	SS-Untersturmführer
June 1934	SS-Obersturmführer
January 1935	SS-Hauptsturmführer
January 1936	SS-Sturmbannführer
April 1938	SS-Obersturmbannführer
November 1940	SS standard leader
January 1943	SS-Oberführer and Colonel of the Police
January 1945	SS-Untersturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)

• Iron Cross 2nd Class (1940)
• War Merit Cross I and II Class with Swords (1939)

As an SS leader

• Skull ring
• Sword of honor

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)

Web links

• Literature about Werner Fromm in the catalog of the German National Library