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Emil Gottlieb Matzuw , formerly Emil Gottlieb Maschuw (Born September 21, 1900 in Essen, † December 11, 1987 in Karlsruhe) was a German SS Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS (1944) and the police (1942), politician and higher SS and police leader (HSSPF) Baltic Sea .

Masw, son of a factory worker, completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith after visiting the elementary school from 1915 to March 1918. As a volunteer of the Navy, he took part in the First World War from April 1918. At the end of the war, Matzw was interned in Great Britain; After the self -reduction of the imperial university fleet in Scapa Flow on June 21, 1919, he was captured until March 1920. Until June 1921, members of the Reichs navy, he worked as a locksmith and mechanical engineer until 1925. Afterwards he was unemployed until 1932 and then worked as a driver in Coburg city administration, where Franz Schwede, later Gauleiter of the Gau Pomerania, was 1st mayor since 1931. Matzw married 1932; Three children emerged from the marriage.

MAZW joined the NSDAP (member number 85.231) and the SA in 1928 and switched from there to SS (SS no. 2,556) in 1930. [first] From November 1930 to February 1932, Matzw led the SS-Sturm 63 “Coburg”; From September 1932 to November 1933 the SS standard 41 “Upper Franconia”. In the final phase of the Weimar Republic, he was sentenced twice: in April 1931 by the Coburg District Court due to property damage to 20 RM and in October 1932 due to negligent bodily harm. [2] In 1930 Matzw was said to have suffered a broken bone during the election campaign. [3]

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Mazen became full-time SS leader at the end of January 1933. In March 1933, the city of Coburg Emil Matzw transferred the management of the urban emergency police, which consisted of 55 SS members. [4] As part of the persecution of political opponents and Jews, he carried out the interrogations in the regimental room of the town hall, in which the prisoners were sometimes abused. [5]

From November 1933 to the beginning of September 1934, Matzw was a leader of the SS section XXVIII in Regensburg. In November 1933, King Ferdinand von Bulgaria, resident in Coburg since his abdication in 1918, made Mazuw at “a Mercedes car at the free disposal […] in order to facilitate the travel of his extensive area of ​​activity.” [6]

After Franz Schwede was appointed Gauleiter of the Gaues Pomerania by Adolf Hitler in July 1934, Mazw went to Pomerania. [7] In September 1934, Matzw was leader of the SS section XIII. In April 1936 he took over the SS top section north and from August 1938 to the beginning of May 1945 he was HSSPF “Baltic Sea” with a office in Stettin; Emil Matzw, as the SS Obergruppenführer and General of the police, also worked as the judge of the SS and Police Court XXIV Szczecin. [8] From March 29, 1936, Matzw was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for the constituency 6 Pomerania.

After the German attack on Poland, Masw was on Himmler’s proposal for the “evacuation” of medicinal and nursing institutions in Pomerania. At the initiative of Gauleiter Franz Schwede’s Pomeranian, the patients were to be brought to adjacent Polish areas. In autumn 1939, around 1400 patients from Pomerania were shot by the SS; Another 1000 were murdered in gas trucks in the spring of 1940. From the beginning of 1939 to September 1941, the number of beds in the province of 7600 to 2800. [9] In April 1940, Mazen was appointed governor of the province of Pomerania. [ten]

In his function as SS Obergruppenführer, he took part in the group leader conference on October 4, 1943 in Poznan, where Heinrich Himmler gave the first Poznan speech. [11]

On May 9, 1945, Mazw was interned because of his belonging to the SS and on April 6, 1948, according to a saying chamber procedure of the Sprachengericht Benefeld-Bomlitz, which was responsible for Staag XI B in Fallingbostel in the British zone Sentenced. [twelfth] On January 29, 1951, his negotiation began before the Coburg District Court. Together with Franz Schwede and another ten former members of the SS, he was charged with the events in March 1933. [13] On April 7, 1951, Emil Matzw, who “essentially guilty”, became [14] For eight years and six months in prison for 62 times the assault in office in office with two attempted coercion in office. The served time from the saying judge was counted. [15] On December 19, 1951, after several requests for grace due to a decree by the Bavarian Minister of State of December 4, 1951, the early dismissal from custody followed, which would have taken regularly until November 25, 1953. [16]

Masw later worked as an employee. He died in Karlsruhe in December 1987. [17]

“Special treatment was equivalent to ‘liquidate’. I also did not need to provide information about this term in Neu-Sandez to my subordinates. He was generally known […]. ” [18]

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  1. ↑ See. Emil Matzw in the database of the Reichstag MPs
    Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler’s representative in the Reich and in the occupied areas. , Düsseldorf 1986, S. 340.
  2. ↑ Small, Extras , S. 407.
  3. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police: the military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, directors, judges and ministerial officials in general rank. (1933 – 1945). Volume 3, Bissendorf: Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7, p. 150.
  4. ↑ Joachim Albrecht: The Avantgarde of the Third Reich – the Coburger NSDAP during the Weimar Republic 1922-1933 . Peter Lang GmbH European Publisher of Sciences, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-53751-4, p. 185.
  5. ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999-from the “good old days” to the threshold of the 21st century. against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006732-9, p. 117.
  6. ↑ Coburger Zeitung of November 24, 1933, quoted at Schulz, General , S. 151.
  7. ↑ Kyra T. Inachin: The Gau Pomerania-a Prussian province as a Nazi Gau. In: The Nazi Gaue: Regional middle instances in the centralist “Führer State” , Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history: special number , Ed. Jürgen John, Horst Möller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Oldenbourg Science Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-486-58086-8, p. 280.
  8. ↑ Barch: The judge of the SS and Police Court XXIV Szczecin- employment order in criminal proceedings against SS-Sturmbannführer and Criminal Councilor Dr. Kurt Riedel, signed E. Matzw, SS Obergruppenführer and General of the police-v. March 14, 1944; Entrance as a certified copy at the SS Personnel Communication Office, TGB. No. 928/44 Geh. V. April 26, 1944
  9. ↑ Heike Bernhardt: “Euthanasia” and the beginning of the war. The early murders of patients from Pomerania. In: ZfG, 44 (1996), Heft 9, S. 773–788, hier S. 773 ff.
  10. ↑ Province of Pomerania at Territorial.de.
  11. ↑ Romuald Karmakar, The Himmler project, DVD 2000, Berlin, ISBN 3-89848-719-9.
  12. ↑ Carl-Christian Dressel: Comments on the judiciary in Coburg from the establishment of the Coburg Regional Court to Denazification. In: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 19977 , Coburg 1997, ISSN  0084-8808 , S. 74.
  13. ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999-from the “good old days” to the threshold of the 21st century. against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9, p. 205.
  14. ↑ New press, May 8, 2013.
  15. ↑ Carl-Christian Dressel: Comments on the judiciary in Coburg from the establishment of the Coburg Regional Court to Denazification. In: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 19977 , Coburg 1997, ISSN  0084-8808 , S. 75.
  16. ↑ Stefan Nöth: anti-Semitism . In: advance to the wrong time. Coburg and the rise of National Socialism in Germany. Coburg 2004, ISBN 3-9808006-3-6, p. 82.
  17. ↑ See Ernst Klee: The person lexicon to the Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 398.
  18. ↑ SS Obergruppenführer Emil Matzw as part of an interrogation Cited at: Holocaust reference .
  19. ↑ Small, Extras , S. 407.
  20. ↑ This rank was at the SS until the SA disempowered in the summer of 1934 Storm leader and then in Main storm leader renamed. A renaming in the SA was made with the list of the SA defense teams in 1939/40, so that this rank in all Nazi organizations Main storm leader was.