Albert Ganzenmüller
German Nazi politician
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- Albert Ganzenmüller (born 25 February 1905 in Passau – died 20 March 1996 in Munich) was a German Nazi and, as the State Secretary at the Reich Transport Ministry ( Reichsverkehrsministerium ) , was involved in the deportation of German Jews.
- Career Albert Ganzenmüller had taken part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923 while still at Realgymnasium (secondary high school).
- In 1940, he had reached the rank of SA- Standartenführer on the staff of the Supreme SA Leadership.
- In 1934, Ganzenmüller became a senior railway executive ( Reichsbahn-Rat ) in Munich and in 1938 was appointed Senior Government Adviser ( Oberregierungsrat ).
- In 1940 he took over the repair and renewal of the electric railway network in occupied France.
Albert Ganzenmüller (born 25 February 1905 in Passau – died 20 March 1996 in Munich) was a German Nazi and, as the State Secretary at the Reich Transport Ministry (Reichsverkehrsministerium), was involved in the deportation of German Jews. Under Ganzenmüller's command, around three million were transported to their deaths by the Reichsbahn and at least 600,000 people were deported to several concentration camps between 1942 and 1943.
Career
Albert Ganzenmüller had taken part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923 while still at Realgymnasium (secondary high school). Afterwards, he became a holder of the Blood Order of the German Nazi Party. After graduating from the Technical College in Munich (now Technical University Munich), where he was a member of a student fraternity known as the Corps Rheno-Palatia München, he became an executive with the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German State Railways) in 1931 and joined the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung (SA or “brownshirts”). In 1940, he had reached the rank of SA-Standartenführer on the staff of the Supreme SA Leadership. He held a Doctor of Engineering degree.
In 1934, Ganzenmüller became a senior railway executive (Reichsbahn-Rat) in Munich and in 1938 was appointed Senior Government Adviser (Oberregierungsrat). He was subsequently head (Dezernent) of electrical engineering at the central office of the German State Railways in Munich. In 1940 he took over the repair and renewal of the electric railway network in occupied France. The following year, at his own request, he was transferred to the Eastern Division at Poltava in central Ukraine.
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