Fritz Tittmann

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Fritz Tittmann
Landesleiter of
Saxony
In office
11 October 1921 – 9 November 1923
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1898-07-18)18 July 1898
SS and Police Leader, "Nikolajew"
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II
AwardsIron Cross, 1st and 2nd class
Wound Badge in Silver

Fritz Tittmann (18 July 1898 – 25 April 1945) was a German

Second World War
in unclear circumstances.

Early life

Tittmann was born in

anti-semitic organization in Germany.[2]

Nazi Party career

In July 1921 Tittmann attended a

Saxony, and set about organizing and expanding the Party throughout the state. Sometime in 1923, Tittmann founded a publishing house which published the weekly (after 1932, daily) newspaper "Der Streiter," (The Fighter) in which he wrote pro-Nazi propaganda articles.[4]

Tittmann was also the leader of the

putsch against the Weimar Republic. In September 1923, Tittmann moved his SA headquarters to Hof just over the border in Bavaria.[5]

Following the failed

National Socialist Freedom Party (NSFP) ticket as a deputy to the Reichstag, serving until the dissolution of October 1924.[4]

After the Nazi Party was re-founded, he enrolled on 25 July 1925 (membership number 12,225).

Gau Kurmark.[4]

After the

Burgermeister (Mayor) of Treuenbrietzen in 1934 and remained honorary mayor until 1941. From September 1933 to May 1936 he was the Reich Representative of the Party for Gaue Berlin, Kurmark and Silesia, and from May 1934 served on the staff of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. At the Nuremberg rallies of 1933 and 1934, Tittmann held the position of Press Chief. Reelected as a Reichstag deputy in November 1933 from electoral constituency 4, Potsdam I, he retained this seat until the end of the Nazi regime.[7]

On 20 April 1938, Tittmann rejoined the SS with the rank of SS-

Ethnic German Main Office (VoMi) Representative to the Reich Organization Leadership Office, headed by Robert Ley. On 7 October 1939, Himmler was named Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood (RKFDV) and created a new SS office for this function. On 9 November 1940, Tittmann was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer and, on 1 July 1941, Himmler charged him with responsibility for representing the ethnic German interests of both VoMi and RKFDV to Ley's office.[7]

Second World War

After

deserters, mostly from Romanian units, for a new Waffen-SS unit then being formed (7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen). By May 1942, he had enlisted around 1,000 soldiers and, though these recruits were described as "volunteers," they were often forcibly coerced into service.[9] On 22 August 1942, Tittmann was replaced in Nikolajew by SS-Brigadeführer Waldemar Wappenhans, and was reassigned to the staff of the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for "Russland-Süd," SS-Obergruppenführer Hans-Adolf Prützmann, in Kiev.[10]

Although Tittmann’s tenure in Nikolajew only began after the

Holocaust
murders.

By the spring of 1942 almost no Jews remained alive in German-occupied Right-Bank and Left-Bank Ukraine. Meanwhile, in western Ukraine the perpetrators started classifying and organizing the surviving Jews according to their presumed ability to work. As a result, the murder of women and children intensified … In Volhynia, Podilia, and the Mykolaiv region, mass executions were restarted at almost the same time. All the Jews in the latter region were killed by 1 April. The most apocalyptic period was yet to come. In July 1942 approximately 600,000 Jews were still alive in Ukraine. Most of them fell victim to the extreme murder campaign that took place between July and November 1942. Almost every day German police, aided by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, killed thousands of Jews, especially in August and September 1942.[11]

In September 1944, however, Tittmann's career was derailed when he received a severe reprimand from Himmler for having diverted three Waffen-SS personnel away from their official duties to assist him with personal matters. In the same month he was punitively transferred to northern Italy, where he was to supervise the construction of defensive positions.[12]

Tittmann died on 25 April 1945 in Treuenbrietzen. There are differing accounts of his death. One version is that he was killed in action fighting the Red Army. Another is that he perished with his family in an air raid. According to another source, Tittmann killed his wife, three children, sister-in-law, mother-in-law and himself in a murder–suicide, rather than surrendering to the advancing Red Army.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Höffkes 1986, p. 349.
  2. ^ Miller & Schulz 2021, pp. 476–477.
  3. ^ Yerger 1997, p. 121.
  4. ^ a b c Miller & Schulz 2021, p. 478.
  5. ^ Szejnmann 1999, p. 29.
  6. ^ a b Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2000, p. 14.
  7. ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2021, p. 479.
  8. ^ Yerger 1997, pp. 64, 121.
  9. ^ Williamson 1994, p. 90.
  10. ^ Yerger 1997, p. 64.
  11. ^ "Holocaust in Ukraine". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  12. ^ Miller & Schulz 2021, pp. 479–480.
  13. ^ Miller & Schulz 2021, p. 476.

Sources

External links
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