Kurt Hintze
Kurt Hintze | |
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Born | 8 October 1901 SS and Police Leader, "Litauen" |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Awards | War Merit Cross, 1st and 2nd class, with Swords |
Kurt Gustav Ernst Hintze (8 October 1901 – 13 November 1944) was a
Early life
Born in
From 1921 to 1922, Hintze was a member of the
SA and political career
From May 1929 to July 1930, Hintze was an
Hintze was also active in politics, being elected as a Nazi deputy to the Reichstag for electoral constituency 4 (Potsdam I) and served until the November 1933 election. At the March 1936 election, he was returned to the Reichstag as a deputy from electoral constituency 6 (Pomerania) and would serve until the end of the Nazi regime, switching to constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen), at the April 1938 election.[4]
Second World War
After the beginning of the
From 10 January 1941, Hintze worked in the SS headquarters in
On 21 February 1944, Hintze was made a Generalmajor of Police, and was sent to serve in the office of the HSSPF "Ostland und Russland-Nord," SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln. On 8 April 1944, he succeeded SS-Brigadeführer Hermann Harm as the last SS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Litauen," with his headquarters in Kauen (today, Kaunas). Following the Red Army's Kaunas offensive, the city fell on 1 August 1944 and Hintze's command was soon effectively eliminated. On 15 September 1944, he was transferred to be the representative of the Reich Defense Commissioner of Upper Silesia, Gauleiter Fritz Bracht, to the fortress staff in Kattowitz (today, Katowice, Poland). He also acted as the liaison officer between Bracht and the HSSPF "Südost," SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser, who was based in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland). Hintze died in an air raid on Kattowitz on 13 November 1944.[8]
References
- ^ a b Yerger 1997, p. 59.
- ^ a b Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2000, p. 17.
- ^ Yerger 1997, pp. 59–60, 136.
- ^ Kurt Hintze entry in the Reichstag Databank
- ^ Klee 2007, p. 257.
- ^ Yerger 1997, pp. 60, 167.
- ^ Rheinland-Palatinate Personal Database (Enter search criteria.)
- ^ Yerger 1997, pp. 31, 59–60.
Sources
- Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8.
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd., ed. (2000). SS Officers List: SS-Standartenführer to SS-Oberstgruppenführer (As of 30 January 1942). Schiffer Military History Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-1061-5.
- Yerger, Mark C. (1997). Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7643-0145-4.
External links
- Information about Kurt Hintze in the Reichstag database
- Rheinland-Palatinate Personal Database