Paul Worm

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Paul Worm
Paul Ernst Worm.jpg
Birth date 13 February 1893
Place of birth Russenau, Kreis Marienwerder, Province of West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date 7 April 1946 (aged 53)
Place of death NKVD Special Camp No. 4 in Bautzen, Allied-occupied Germany
Place of burial Karnickelberg Burial Site
Allegiance  German Empire
 Weimar Republic
 National Socialist Germany
Service/branch War and service flag of Prussia (1895–1918).png Prussian Army
Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png Imperial German Army
Freikorps Flag.jpg Freikorps
Polizei in der Weimarer Republik.jpg Police
Flag Schutzstaffel.png SS
Years of service 1912–1914
1914–1918
1919
1919–1938
1938–1944
Rank SS-Brigadeführer
Service number NSDAP #1,410,685
SS rune.png #307,789
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Iron Cross
Wound Badge
Silesian Eagle
War Merit Cross
Relations ∞ 24 December 1923 Frieda Ulrike Klauder
Other work Member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund (1919–1921)
Member of the Lebensborn Society

Paul Ernst Worm (13 February 1893 – 7 April 1946) was a German officer of the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army, the Freikorps, the Police and the SS, finally SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei during World War II.

Life

Worm as commander of the Radom Police Regiment
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Paul Worm.jpg

After attending school and achieving his Abitur, Worm joined the 2nd Ermland Infantry Regiment No. 151 in Sensburg. After basic training and company service, he attended war school and was commissioned in November 1913. On 20 October 1914, during WWI, he was wounded. Upon regaining his health, he was seconded to the Fliegertruppe, trained as an aerial observer, and served with Field Aviation Battalion 37 from 19 May 1915 to 28 April 1919. He then served with the Freikorps Maercker (Freiwilliges Landesjägerkorps) under Major General Georg Ludwig Rudolf Maercker; among other things, the Freikorps protected the National Assembly in Weimar against communist and Spartacist attacks.

On 9 October 1919, he was discharged from active military service and transferred to the police force. During the Weimar Republic, he served in West Prussia (Marienwerder)—initially as a company commander in the Security Police, and subsequently in the Protection Police (first in Elbing, then at various other duty stations)—before working from 1927 onward as a precinct chief within the Berlin Police Administration, and from 28 October 1931 as a police instructor in Sensburg.

On 1 December 1932, he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 1,410,685). From mid-April 1934 to late May 1935, he served as the liaison officer between the State Police and the Government of Gumbinnen. From late June 1936 to mid-March 1938, he served as a desk officer within the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and headed the Schutzpolizei (Protection Police) Group within the Personnel Office attached to the Staff of the Chief of the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police).

On 1 July 1938, Worm also joined the SS (SS membership number 307,789) and was assigned to the Staff of the SS-Oberabschnitt (SS Main District) Südwest. From late March 1938 to late April 1939, he served as Commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) in Stuttgart; subsequently—following the Anschluss of Austria into the National Socialist German Reich—he served in the same capacity in Vienna. From late May 1939 to mid-February 1940, he served as Commander of Police Regiment Mähren (2nd).

SS-Standartenführer and Oberst der Schutzpolizei (Colonel of the Protection Police) Paul Worm was from 25 October 1940 to 24 June 1942 commander of the Radom Police Regiment and, concurrently, commander of the Order Police in the Radom District, succeeding Ferdinand Heske (1892–1958). On 9 July 1942, he took over command of the Police Regiment Center (13th) and was severely wounded on 27 January 1943 during anti-partisan warfare (Bandenbekämpfung). On 1 September 1944, he was retired.[1]

Death

Although he had already been retired since September 1944, he was arrested and interned by the Russians in May 1945. Eleven months later he was dead—a fact, however, that was not discovered until the 1990s. For a long time, 1956 was considered to be the year of his death. While the circumstances of his death in the Soviet NKVD torture camp remain unknown, they can be surmised. By 1950, more than 27,000 prisoners had passed through Special Camp Bautzen. Over 3,000 victims of the camp and of the communist regime of violence are known by name; they are honored on memorial plaques in the chapel. The exact total number of victims buried there between 1945 and 1949 remains unknown, as many can no longer be located.

Promotions

  • 10 April 1912 Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)
  • 1912 Fahnenjunker-Unteroffizier (Officer Candidate with Corporal/NCO/Junior Sergeant rank)
  • 18 December 1912 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 20 November 1913 Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) with Patent from 19 November 1911
  • 27 January 1917 Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
  • 20 January 1920 Charakter als Hauptmann a. D. (Honorary Captain, Retired)

Police and SS

  • 9 October 1919 Polizeioberleutnant (Police 1st Lieutenant)
  • 13 July 1921 Polizeihauptmann (Police Captain)
  • 28 October 1931 Polizeimajor (Police Major)
  • 1 April 1934 Major der Landespolizei (Major of the State Police)
  • 3 April 1935 Major der Schutzpolizei / Schupo (Major of the Protection Police)
  • 30 January 1937 Oberstleutnant der Schupo (Lieutenant Colonel of the Protection Police)
  • 9 March 1938 SS-Bewerber (SS Applicant)
  • 1 July 1938 SS-Obersturmbannführer
  • 30 October 1940 Oberst der Schupo (Colonel of the Protection Police)
  • 9 November 1940 SS-Standartenführer
  • 9 November 1943 SS-Oberführer[2]
  • 1 May 1944 SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei (Major General of the Police)

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ↑ Thierry Tixier: Allgemeine SS – Polizei – Waffen SS, Volume 2, 2016
  2. ↑ SS Seniority List, 30 January 1944, Entry No. 655, p. 72 (29)
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