Otto Schumann (11 September 1886 – 1952) was a German
SS and police general during the
Nazi era
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
. He was born in
Metz, Lorraine, on 11 September 1886. During the
First World War, he served in the German Army as an officer. After the war, he became a police officer. Otto Schumann joined the
NSDAP in 1933 and the
SS in 1939.
During
World War II, Schumann served in the SS troops in
Stettin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin language, Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Po ...
(Wehrkreis II) and
The Hague in the Netherlands. From December 1942 to September 1943, he served in Münster (Wehrkreis VI). In August 1943, Otto Schumann was promoted to the rank of SS-
Gruppenführer
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''Gruppenführer'' (, ) was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), first created in 1925 as a senior rank of the SA. Since then, the term ''Gruppenführer'' is also used for leaders of groups/teams of the police, fire de ...
. In February 1944, Schumann was sent to
Vienna, where he stayed until October 1944. Then, he took command of the ''SS-Oberabschnitt West'', in
Düsseldorf. Schumann died in
Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, in 1952.
References
;Bibliography
Further reading
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Ruth Bettina Birn: ''Die Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer. Himmlers Vertreter im Reich und in den besetzten Gebieten''. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1986; Alfons Kenkmann, Christoph Spieker: Im Auftrag, Polizei, Verwaltung und Verantwortung, Katalog zur gleichnamigen Dauerausstellung im Geschichtsort Villa ten Hompel. Essen 2001, S.176-187; Jos Smeets: De Geschiedenis van de Nederlands Politie. Verdeeldheid en eenheid in het Rijkspolitieaparaat, Utrecht 2007.
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1886 births
1952 deaths
Military personnel from Alsace-Lorraine
Military personnel from Metz
SS and Police Leaders
Netherlands in World War II
Waffen-SS personnel
SS-Gruppenführer
20th-century Freikorps personnel