SOME OF THE PRISONERS HELD AT
SPECIAL CAMP
11
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NAME:
SS-Gruppenführer
und Generalleutnant der Polizei Jakob Sporrenberg
PW NO:
B193537
RANK: SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant
der Polizei
CAPTURED: Norway
DATE: 11 May 1945
PERSONAL
D.O.B:
16 September 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH : Düsseldorf
DIED
: 6 December 1952,
PLACE OF DEATH: Hanged: Warsaw,
Poland
NATIONALITY:
RELIGION:
OCCUPATION:
HEIGHT:
WEIGHT:
NEXT OF KIN:
NSDAP-No: 25 585 (Joined 1922; left, then rejoined, 15 December 1925)
SS-No: 3 809 (Joined 1 October 1930)
Promotions:
- SS-Sturmführer: 15 December 1930
- SS-Sturmbannführer: 21 November
1931
- SS-Standartenführer: 9 November
1932
- SS-Oberführer: 9 November 1933
- SS-Brigadeführer: 30 January 1936
- SS-Gruppenführer: 1 January 1940
- Generalleutnant der Polizei: 7
July 1943
- 1919: Interrupted mechanic training
to serve in the Freikorps for 1½ years.
- March 1924-August 1925: Imprisoned
by the French for sabotage in the French occupied Ruhr area of Germany.
- 25 August 1925: Joined the Sturmabteilung
(SA).
- 25 August 1925-September 1930:
Member of SA-Standarte 39.
- 1 August 1929: Joined the Hitler
Youth as Hitler Youth leader for Düsseldorf.
- 1 October 1930: Joined the SS.
- 15 December 1930-21 November 1931:
Leader of SS-Sturm 54.
- 21 November 1931-4 July 1932:
Leader of I./20. SS-Standarte in Düsseldorf.
- 4 July 1932-20 July 1933: Leader
of 20. SS-Standarte in Düsseldorf.
- 20 September 1933-20 September
1936: Leader of SS-Abschnitt XX (headquarters in Kiel).
- November 1933-September 1936:
At the same time, commanded the SS garrison in Kiel.
- April 1938-May 1945: Member of
the Reichstag.
- Autumn 1935: On duty with the
Army as a Leutnant der Reserve in Infantry Regiment 26.
- 1937-September 1939: Transferred
to the Reich Central Security Main Office (RSHA) as Inspector of the Security
Police (Sipo) and the Security Service (SD) for Königsberg.
- 26 September 1939-18 June 1940:
Leader of SS-Oberabschnitt "Rhein."
- 1 October 1939-24 July 1940: At
the same time, served as SS and Police Leader "Rhein" (headquarters in
Wiesbaden).
- 18 June 1940-30 April 1941: Leader
of SS-Oberabschnitt "Nordost" (headquarters in Königsberg).
- May 1941-June 1941: Underwent
training with the Ordungspolizei [Order Police] and Reich Central
Security Main 4Office.
- 21 July 1941-14 August 1941: SS
and Police Leader "Weißruthenien" (headquarters in Minsk, Russia).
- August 1941-March 1943: Special
Assignment Officer to Gauleiter Erich Koch.
- 16 August 1943-25 November 1944:
SS and Police Leader "Lublin" in Poland.
- 21 November 1944-May 1945: SS and Police Leader "Süd-Norwegen" (South Norway).
- Known POW Camp transfers:
- 3rd October 1946 transferred to LDC (London District Cage)
- Extradited to
Poland 1946 (exact date unknown), tried before the Appellate Court
in Lublin (not Warsaw) and sentenced to death 16th September 1950.
The execution was actually carried out on the 6th December 1952. Source:
Kobierska-Motas "Extradition of war criminals from the four zones
of occupied Germany, 1946-1950" Warsaw 1992, page 216.
Postwar Prosecution: