Rudolf Querner

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Rudolf Querner, 1940

Rudolf Querner (10 June 1893 – 27 May 1945) was a German

evacuations and death marches from concentration camps
at the end of the war. Arrested by the Allied authorities, he committed suicide in prison.

Early life

Querner, the son of a manor owner, was born in Lehnsdorf near

First World War and finished the war as a prisoner of the French. He was married in 1919 following his release and had four children during the course of the marriage.[1] The same year he also enrolled in the police.[2]

SS career

Querner joined the Nazi Party in 1933 with the membership number of 2,385,386.[3] From 1936 to 1937 he served as Generalmajor of the Ordnungspolizei and from September 1939 was the inspector of commanders in Hamburg.[4] He joined the SS in 1938 as member number 308,240.[2] He also served as Ordnungspolizei commander in Prague in 1939 and from 1940 to 1941 as inspector general of county constabulary.[5]

From 1 May 1941 to at the end of January 1943 Querner was

Zyklon-B from Tesch & Stabenow pest control company.[7]

From January 1943 to October 1944 he was HSSPF for district XVII, based at Vienna. On 21 June 1943 he was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer[8] and on 1 July 1944 to General of the Waffen-SS.[9] Following the 20 July plot Querner's district undertook harsh measures against any possible revolution, although Querner had delegated authority in this instance to his subordinate Heinrich Kodré.[10]

He resumed his career as HSSPF in district XI, based in Braunschweig, from October 1944 to 8 May 1945.[11] Here he was largely responsible for the evacuation of the concentration and POW camps in the district.[12]

Arrest and suicide

Arrested at the end of the war, Querner committed suicide later in May 1945, aged 51, at Magdeburg in captivity.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ruth Bettina Birn: Die Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer. Himmlers Vertreter im Reich und in den besetzten Gebieten., Düsseldorf 1986, p.342
  2. ^ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 475.
  3. ^ Rudolf Querner biodata, dws-xip.pl; accessed 18 March 2017.
  4. ^ Commandements régionaux de la Police
  5. ^ Profile, Lexikon-der-Wehrmacht.de; accessed 17 March 2017.(in German)
  6. ^ Beate Meyer: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der Hamburger Juden 1933-1945: Geschichte, Zeugnis, Erinnerung, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, p. 34
  7. ^ Andrej Angrick, Peter Klein, The "Final Solution" in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944, Berghahn Books, 2009, p. 190
  8. ^ Rolf Jehke: Reichsgau Wien, Herdecke
  9. ^ "Obergruppenführer/Generale der SS - Lexikon der Wehrmacht". www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. Retrieved Feb 14, 2023.
  10. ^ Heinz Höhne: Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf - Die Geschichte der SS, Augsburg 1998, p. 493.
  11. ^ Commandements régionaux de la S.S.
  12. ^ Linde Apel, Hamburger Behörde für Kultur, Sport, Medien, in Zusammenarbeit with the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg und der KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme (ed.): In den Tod geschickt - Die Deportationen von Juden, Roma und Sinti aus Hamburg, 1940 bis 1945, Metropol Verlag, Hamburg 2009 - DVD zur Ausstellung, Die Täter, p. 6

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