SS-Gruf. Robert Bergmann

[laurens]

Does anyone has some info about Brigade Führer Robert Bergmann, Adjutant of Ernst Röhm.

Does he survive the Röhm-putsch? And if he did, what was his function or further role in the SS.


Any help will be much appreciated!

Laurens

[laurens]

Here's the only picture that I have.

[Phil Nix]

Bergmann survived the Purge but was dismissed from the SS he worked in industry during the war. Dr Benno Martin SS OGF asked that he be re-admitted into the SS but Himmler wrote to say that the mater would be reconsidered at the end of the war.
Philmil

[laurens]

Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Laurens

[Lea]

that's Robert Bergmann.

[J. Duncan]

I have discovered while looking through Eleanor Hancock's notes to her biography of Ernst Röhm that this man was Röhm's "best friend" and that he even saved Röhm's life during the Great War. Röhm apparently states this himself. Did Bergmann first begin in the SA and then go over to the SS? It is interesting to note that if he was so close to Röhm personally, why was he under Himmler's direct leadership and not Röhm's?

[Michael Miller]

Here is some interesting material on Bergmann: http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/archiv/zs/zs-0827.pdf

And here is the biographical sketch of him that appears in my book Leaders of the SS & German Police, Volume I. Although he was not an SA leader per se, because of his close connection to Röhm and the SA, I will be including an expanded biography (with a lot of additional information, most of it from Bavarian military archives) of him in the eventual Leaders of the Storm Troops, Volume II (which will cover SA-Ogruf. from P to W and SA-Gruf. from A to K).

Bergmann, Robert
SS-Gruppenführer

Born: 05.05.1886 in Nürnberg / Franken / Bayern.
Died: 04.02.1966 in Altdorf.

NSDAP-Nr.: 44 269 (Joined 21.06.1926; expelled, 01.10.1934; expulsion overturned, 12.11.1938)
SS-Nr.: 7 099 (Joined 27.04.1931)

Promotions:
01.10.1905 Einjähriger-Freiwilliger
09.09.1915 Leutnant d. R.
27.04.1931 SS-Truppführer (mit Wirkung vom 22.04.1931)
19.06.1931 SS-Sturmführer (mit Wirkung vom 10.06.1931)
27.11.1932 SS-Sturmbannführer (mit Wirkung vom 02.11.1932)
01.07.1932 SS-Standartenführer
01.03.1933 SS-Oberführer
01.07.1933 SS-Brigadeführer
09.11.1933 SS-Gruppenführer
00.00.1942 Bereichsleiter der NSDAP

Career:
00.00.1899 – 00.00.1902 Attended Präparandenschule (preparatory school) in Neustadt a. A.
00.00.1902 – 00.00.1904 Attended the Lehrerseminar (teaching college) in Altdorf bei Nürnberg.
00.00.1904 – 00.08.1914 Employed as a teacher in Fischbach bei Nürnberg.
01.10.1905 – 30.09.1906 Entered service as an Einjähriger-Freiwilliger, assigned to 14.Bayerischen
Infanterie-Regiment (Base: Nürnberg).
29.09.1914 – 00.11.1918 World War I service, assigned to 10.Bayerischen Infanterie-Regiment ”König”, ultimately as a Kompanieführer, then as Ordonnanzoffizier assigned to 12.Bayerischen Infanterie-Division. Wounded in action on 3 occasions (00.05.1915, 13.06.1916, and 04.10.1917).
00.00.1918 – 00.00.19__ Hauptlehrer in Altdorf bei Nürnberg.
25.04.1919 – 31.07.1919 Ordonnanzoffizier to Hauptmann Ernst Röhm in Freikorps Epp.
00.00.19__-00.00.19__ Possible service with Freikorps “Maltzahn.”
21.09.1926 Joined the NSDAP (Ortsgruppe Altdorf).
00.00.1927 – 00.00.1928 SA service.
08.08.1929 – 00.00.1930 Ortsgruppenleiter of NSDAP Ortsgruppe Altdorf.
00.00.19__ Gauredner der NSDAP.
01.10.1929 Joined the NS-Lehrerbund (NSLB membership Nr. 112).
00.00.1930 – 00.00.1932 Bezirksoberleiter of NSDAP Bezirke Nürnberg-Land and Schwabach; honorary
member of the Nürnberg Stadtrat.
27.04.1931 Joined the SS.
18.06.1931 – 27.11.1931 Führer (m.d.F.b.) of 2.Sturm / I.Sturmbann / 3.SS-Standarte and
Verwaltungsführer of I.Sturmbann / 3.SS-Standarte (Base: Nürnberg).
27.11.1931 – 25.06.1932 Führer (m.d.F.b.) of I.Sturmbann / 3.SS-Standarte.
01.07.1932 – 20.04.1933 SA-Standartenführer z.b.V. assigned to the Stab Obersten SA-Führung.
31.07.1932 – 06.12.1934 Member of the Reichstag (Wahlkreis 26, Franken).
20.04.1933 – 09.11.1933 Adjutant to the Stabschef der SA (Ernst Röhm).
09.11.1933 – 30.06.1934 Personal Adjutant to the SA-Stabschef and Chef of Abteilung A2
(Sonderreferate / Special Department) and A3 (Kommandant des Stabsquartiers / Commandant of Staff Headquarters) assigned to the Stab Obersten SA-Führung (HQ: Barerstrasse 11, München).
30.06.1934 – 03.11.1934 Arrested along with his superior Röhm and other SA leaders at Bad Wiessee by Hitler and his entourage; transported by truck to Stadelheim Prison near München and held there for four months.
09.08.1934 Proposal submitted by Gestapo for Bergmann’s expulsion from the SS.
00.08.1934 Expelled from the SS by order of the Führer (with effect from 30.06.1934).
01.10.1934 Via interim injunction from Rudolf Hess, Bergmann was expelled from the NSDAP in accordance with the decision of the II.Kammer (2nd Chamber) of the Obersten Parteigericht (Supreme Party Court) due to violation of § 4 Abs. 2a and b of the statute of the NSDAP. The reasons given by the Court were as follows“You have neglected to inform the Führer about the highly treasonous pursuits of former Stabschef [Ernst] Röhm, although you- as his Adjutant- were informed about his activities. Thereby you have acted in opposition to the efforts of the Party and broken the oath of allegiance you have sworn to your Führer. Due to this defamatory act, in terms of § 4 Abs. 2a and b of the statute, your ejection from the Party was ordered.”
06.12.1934 Expelled from his seat in the Reichstag.
ca. 00.12.1934 – 00.00.1935 Employed as rector of a Volkshauptschule (public primary school) in Nürnberg.
00.00.1935 Involuntarily pensioned from his teaching position).
12.11.1938 By decision of the 2.Kammer of the Obersten Parteigericht, Bergmann’s
expulsion from the NSDAP (01.10.1934) overturned, and he was deemed rehabilitated.
01.05.1939 – 12.12.1939 Reentered full-time service with the NSDAP, assigned to the duties of a Mob.-
Sachbearbeiter (Mobilization Specialist) with the NSDAP Gauleitung in Franken (Nürnberg).
12.12.1939 – 00.00.19__ Mob.-Beauftragter (Mobilization Representative) of NSDAP Gauleitung
Franken.
01.03.1940 – 00.00.194_ Gaueinsatzführer (Regional Operations Leader) of the Volksdeutsche
Mittelstelle in Gau Franken.
21.02.1941 – 00.00.194_ Ortsgruppenleiter of NSDAP Ortsgruppe Altdorf.
01.05.1942 – 00.00.194_ Gauamtsleiter z.V. of NSDAP Gauleitung Franken.
01.07.1942 – 00.10.1944 Kreisleiter of NSDAP Kreis Nürnberg-Land (m.d.F.b. until 00.03.1944, then
permanent).
23.09.1942 Proposal submitted by the Führer of SS-Oberabschnitt Main, SS-Gruppenführer Dr. jur. Benno Martin, for Bergmann’s readmission into the SS.
05.10.1942 Disposition of application for readmittance to the Allgemeine-SS deferred “bis nach Kriegsende” (until the end of the war).

Decorations & Awards:
00.00.191_ 1914 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse
00.00.191_ 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse
00.00.191_ Bayerisches Militär-Verdienstorden IV. Klasse
00.00.1918 Verwundetenabzeichen, 1918 in Schwarz
ca. 1934 Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
00.00.1933 Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP
ca. 1932 Frontbann-Abzeichen

Notes:
* Religion: Lutheran.
* Married with one daughter (Resi) and one son.

[J. Duncan]

Thankyou Mike.
Below are pasted notes from Hancock's book that illustrate the close relations between the two men:

He was the closest to Robert Bergmann: Röhm, Geschichte eines Hochverräters, p. 39. In a 1934 speech, Röhm called Bergmann “the best comrade of my life”: quoted in 26 May 1934, Heinz Wulff, “Der Stabschef besichtigt Frankens S.A.”, Der S.A.-Mann, 3/21, 26 May 1934, p. 2.

23.
Röhm, Geschichte eines Hochverräters, p. 47. Röhm always regarded Bergmann as having saved his life: 13 April 1948, Robert Bergmann, “Lebenslauf.”, Amtsgericht München Entnazifizierungsakten Hauptkammer Nürnberg

[HM]

Can anyone provide me with the date of marriage and maiden name of Robert Bergmanns wife.

They had (at least)three children, E. an “Leutnant in der Landespolizei, H. was a “Führeranwärter im RAD”, and R. an Assistenzärztin in Görlitz”;

HM.

[HM]

Anyone please.

There must be some additional info in his PA.

HM.