Anton Leonard Dunkern ( German: Anton Leonhard Dunckern ; June 29, 1905 , Munich , German Empire - December 9, 1985 , Munich , Germany ) - German lawyer, SS brigadeführer , head of the SS and police in the French city of Metz .
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Biography
Anton Dunkern was born on June 29, 1905 in the family of the bailiff Leonard Dunkern and his wife Maria. He studied law at the University of Munich , which he graduated in 1930 after passing the first state exam. In 1933 he passed the second state exam.
In 1923 he participated in the Beer Coup as part of the [2] . For participation in this event on June 22, 1934, Adolf Hitler awarded him the Order of the Blood . In September 1930 he joined the NSDAP (party ticket No. 315 601) and the SS (No. 3526) [3] . From mid-July 1934 he served in the Gestapo in Lignitz and Breslau . In March 1935 he headed the Gestapo in Saarbrücken . From February 15, 1937 to 1938 he also led the Gestapo in the city of Neustadt . He was a political adviser to Gauleiter Joseph Burkel .
World War II
In July 1940, after the end of the French campaign, he returned to Germany as the former leader of the Einsatzgruppe 2 . Then he took the post of head of the Security Police and SD in the Saar-Lorraine region. From the beginning of October 1942 to November 18, 1944 he was the head of the SS and police in Metz. Dunkern was captured by the Americans on the night of May 19 to 20, 1944 during the occupation of Metz and was personally interrogated by General George Patton [4] . Until the beginning of April 1945 he was imprisoned in Great Britain .
After the war
After being held in British captivity, he was transferred to a camp in the United States , and from there in the summer of 1946 to the general camp in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . From the fall of 1947 to 1953 he was held in a military prison in Metz . In the summer of 1953, the French military tribunal in Metz was sentenced to 20 years of labor camps, but a year later he was released ahead of schedule [2] . He returned to Germany and practiced law in Munich . In January 1962, he contracted encephalitis , which caused paralysis and hospitalization. At the end of the same year he was discharged from the hospital and then lived at his Schlüterhof estate in Freising . In the early 1970s, the Munich prosecutor's office investigated him for alleged involvement in the deportation of French Jews. On May 7, 1971, the investigation was terminated. He died in 1985 after a long illness.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 123491533 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Ernst Klee, 2007 , S. 122.
- ↑ Hans-Walter Herrmann, Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Gerhard Paul, Hans-Henning Krämer. Widerstand und Verweigerung im Saarland 1935-1945 . - Bonn: Dietz Verlag, 1991 .-- S. 208. - 504 p. - ISBN 9783801250119 .
- ↑ Interrogates a SS General, 1944 . eyewitnesstohistory.com . Date of treatment February 12, 2019.
Literature
- Ernst Klee. Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich . - Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2007 .-- ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Dieter Wolfanger. "Anton Dunckern. Der erste Gestapo-Chef des Saarlandes und spätere Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Lothringen-Saarpfalz ": [ him. ] . - Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte. - 1992. - Bd. 18. - S. 303–324.
Links
- Anton Dunckern (Polish) . dws-xip . Date of treatment February 12, 2019.