On this date, 6 December
1952, SS & Police Leader, Jakob Sporrenberg was executed by hanging in
Poland. I will post information about this SS War Criminal from Wikipedia.
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| Jakob Sporrenberg |
Jakob Sporrenberg (16 September 1902 – 6 December 1952) was a SS-Gruppenführer
und Generalleutnant der Polizei in Minsk, Belarus and Lublin, Poland. After
the war, Sporrenberg stood trial in Poland and was convicted in 1950 of war
crimes and sentenced to death. He was executed in December 1952.
Biography
Jakob
Sporrenberg was born on 16 September 1902 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Sporrenberg
joined the NSDAP
in 1925. In 1929 he was appointed an SA officer and one year later joined the
SS, rising to the rank of SS-Brigadeführer by 1933. In January 1940, he
was promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer
(Generalleutnant). From 1941 to 1943, he was SS and Police Leader (SSPF) in Minsk. In 1943
he was assigned to the staff of General Erich von dem Bach to combat partisans.
Sporrenberg
subsequently succeeded Odilo Globocnik as SS and Police Leader of Lublin,
in the Generalgouvernement of occupied Poland in
August 1943. In this capacity, Sporrenberg organized the Operation "Harvest Festival" there.
In
November 1944 Sporrenberg and several of his staff were redeployed to Norway.
There Sporrenberg served as SS and Police Leader of Süd-Norwegen (South
Norway). In May 1945, Sporrenberg and his staff were captured by British
forces. Their interrogation shed much light on Globocnik's activities in
Lublin. One outcome of his interrogation was the transfer of Sporrenberg from
the PWIS Detachment (Norway) in Oslo to the MI19 interrogation
centre in Kensington Palace Gardens, London, known as
the "London Cage"; for further questioning by the War
Crimes Interrogation Unit. This established his participation in a number of
war crimes committed in Poland and the Soviet Union.
Post-war
Sporrenberg
was extradited to Poland in October 1946, and sentenced to death by a Polish
court in Warsaw in 1950, the sentence being carried out on 6 December 1952 when
he was executed by hanging.
Sporrenberg
has since been linked to the alleged German secret project Die Glocke
(The Bell) by Polish writer Igor
Witkowski, who claimed to have discovered the existence of Die Glocke
from transcripts of an interrogation by Polish authorities of Sporrenberg.
Witkowski claims to have gained access to read the transcripts through an
unnamed contact in the Polish intelligence service. The interrogation and its
contents have no primary documentation aside from Witkowski.
Awards
- Anschluss Medal
- Sudetenland Medal
- Golden Party Badge
- Iron Cross (1939) Second and First Class
- War Merit Cross (1939) with Swords Second and First Class
- Sword of Honor of the Reichsführer-SS
- SS-Ehrenring
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