Lucian Wysocki

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Lucian Wysocki
SS and Police Leader, "Litauen"
Battles/warsWorld War I; World War II
AwardsIron Cross, 2nd class

Lucian Wysocki (18 January 1899 – 13 December 1964) was a German

Second World War
.

Early life

Wysocki was born in

stonecutter in a quarry at Baesweiler.[1]

Peacetime SA and police career

Wysocki became a member of the Nazi Party on 1 May 1929 (membership number 132,988).

Nazi seizure of power, he was returned to the Reichstag in March 1933 and would serve there until the end of the Nazi regime, switching to constituency 22, Düsseldorf-East, at the March 1936 election.[3]

In August 1933, Wysocki advanced to SA-

Mülheim an der Ruhr. He achieved his final SA rank of SA-Brigadeführer in January 1939, followed by his appointment as Police President of Duisburg the following November, a post he would retain until August 1941.[1]

Second World War

On 21 June 1940, Wysocki left the SA and transferred to the

intelligence service) and the SiPo (security police), which included the Gestapo (secret police). On 27 September 1941, he was granted the rank of Generalmajor of Police.[4]

Wysocki's tenure as SSPF coincided with the height of the

Einsatzgruppe A and their Lithuanian collaborators, including the Lithuanian Security Police, immediately began the systematic murder of Lithuanian Jews. Out of approximately 208,000 – 210,000 Jews, an estimated 190,000 – 195,000 were murdered, most between June and December 1941.[5]

On 2 July 1943, Wysocki left his SSPF post in Kaunas and was transferred to Minsk to serve as a Special Duty SSPF for anti-partisan operations on the staff of Acting Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) "Russland Mitte" (Central Russia), SS-Gruppenführer Curt von Gottberg. Following a period of illness and hospitalization, Wysocki left his post in Minsk and returned to police duties in Germany as Police President of Kassel, from 19 March 1944 until the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945. Following the war, Wysocki worked as a clerk at the Horten department store in Duisburg and died in 1964.[6] He was never prosecuted for Holocaust-related activities in Lithuania.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c Yerger 1997, p. 112.
  2. ^ a b Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2000, p. 14.
  3. ^ Lucian Wysocki entry in the Reichstag Databank
  4. ^ Yerger 1997, pp. 59, 112.
  5. ISBN 978-90-420-0850-2
    .
  6. ^ Klee 2007, p. 690.

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