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Ernst Otto Fick (5 February 1898 in Kirchdorf an der Iller - 29 April 1945 in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a German SS Brigade Leader (SS Brigadeführer) and Major General of the Waffen-SS. [1]

Life

Ernst Otto Fick was born in Kirchdorf an der Iller, [2] the son of Gustav Adolf Fick (13 March 1867 - 21 March 1950) and his wife Bertha (maiden name Jakob; 28 May 1871 - 24 February 1917). On April 29, 1934, he married Stenographer Gertraud Dapperger (21 March 1914 - 20 February 2010). [3]

Fick volunteered for military service in 1915 while still in school and participated duringWorld War I. After the war he joined the Freikorps (German volunteer military units). From 1919 to 1931, he ran a branch of his father's general store and was also the administrator of his parents' property. In 1928 he became a member of the Nazi Party NSDAP (membership number 124.087). When his parents' business went bankrupt, he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 2,853) and worked full-time as a consultant for the staff of the Reichsführer-SS and as an instructor for the SS-Verfügungstruppe, combat troops for the Nazi Party reporting directly to Adolf Hitler and precursor to the Waffen-SS. From spring 1935 to 1937 he was a member of the staff at RuSHA (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, the "Race and Settlement Main Office") and then taught in the field of ideological training at the SS Junkerschule Bad Tölz and at the SS Junkerschule Braunschweig until 1939. [4]

During the Second World War he commanded the Ideology School at Sennheim. [5] From the beginning of January 1944 until his death he was an inspector for ideological education of the entire SS and police. In addition, he was Amtsgruppenchef (office group C) in the SS main office. [5]

Fick was shot and killed with his driver by soldiers of the US Army on April 29, 1945 during the liberation of Oflag VII A (a German Army POW camp for Polish Army officers) [6]

See also

individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police. Volume 1: A – G (Abraham - Gutenberger). Bissendorf 2003, p. 304.
  2. ^ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police. Volume 1: A – G (Abraham - Gutenberger). Bissendorf 2003, p. 305.
  3. ^ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. Volume 1: A – G (Abraham - Gutenberger). Bissendorf 2003, p. 306.
  4. ^ Hans-Christian Harten: Himmler's teacher. The ideological training in SS 1933–1945 , Paderborn 2014, p. 56
  5. ^ a b Hans-Christian Harten: Himmler's teacher. The ideological training in the SS 1933-1945 , Paderborn 2014, p. 369
  6. ^ Solveig Reason: [https: // www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/offizierslager-in-hitler-deutschland-bilderfund-aus-dem-oflag-murnau-fotostrecke-110219-17.html World War I Photo Find Sport and Art in the Nazi Camp ]. Spiegel-Online from January 16, 2013


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