Info on Oberkrimininalassistent Martin Opitz and others

[panzerschreck]

Hello Mulisch,

This is what I've found on Esser, apparently not Abteilung II C but another one. Can't read everything because it's in Norwegian language....

Esser, Wilhelm (Karl Johann Josef) (1908—?). SS-Hauptsturmführer og Kriminalrat, kom til Norge 30.4.1940 som sjef for Referat IVc, senere IV2a (Gestapo) ved Sipo- hovedkvarteret i Oslo. Esser, født i Drammen, var tysk borger og hadde studert medisin og jus i Kiel og Berlin før krigen. Det var Esser som forhørte engelskmennene som ble tatt etter den mislykkede glidefly-operasjonen mot Vemork, og han var også vitne til henrettelsen av dem på Trandum. Esser tjenestegjorde hos Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei på Furulund de siste månedene av krigen. Under rettsoppgjøret fikk han en dom på 8 år.


Greetings,
Mike

Quick translation:

// Esser, Wilhelm (Karl Johann Josef) (1908 - ?) SS-Hauptsturmführer and Kriminalrat, came to Norway 30.4.1940 as head of Referat IVc, later IV2a (Gestapo) at the Sipo headquarters in Oslo. Born i Drammen [a Norw. city], Esser was a German citizen and had studied medicine and law in Kiel and Berlin before the war. It was Esser who interrogated the Englishmen who were caught after the failed glide plan operation against Vemork and he also witnessed the execution of them at Trandum. Esser served by Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei at Furulund the last months of the war. After the war he was sentenced to 8 years. \\

[panzerschreck]

Information on Esser according to Tore Pryser: "Hitlers hemmelige agenter", Universitetsforlaget, 2001:

Wilhelm Esser
Born: 1908 in Drammen (German father, Norwegian mother)
Student (medicine and law): 1929-1933
Joined the NSDAP in 1930
Joined the SS in 1931

1933-1938: Gestapo in Berlin and later in Kiel
30.04.1940: transferred to Norway
1.1.1943: SS-Hstuf. and Kriminalrat
Led several "Referater" in Abt. IV BdS Norwegen, amongst other 2A (sabotage, violence)

/Henrik

[Mikedc]

Hello Henrik,

Many thanks for the translation, that's a big help indeed. And also thanks for the extra info on Esser, he was indeed Leiter several Referate(IV C, IV 2a, IV 5 and IV 1 c).


And I have some more info on Paul Opitz.
Between ?? 1937 and June 1938 he was Führer from 12. Sturm(HQ at Schweidlitz)with III. Sturmbann(HQ Waldenburg)from 43. SS-Standarte(HQ Frankenstein)within SS-Abschnitt VI 'Mittelschlesien'(HQ Breslau).


Greetings,
Mike

[Phil Nix]

Paul Opitz born 1.6.1898 Party Nr 503770 SS Nr 40404 USF 19.1.35 Osf 20.4.36 Hsf 30.1.38 Beim Pioniereinheit 10 1938
Paul Opitz born 17.9.1897 No Party Nr SS Nr 332024 Ltn der Reserve WW 1 Awarded IK 1 and 2 and Wound Badge in Black BeimRHSA 1942 Sbf 20.4.40
Wilhelm Esser born 15.1.1908 Party Nr 246483 SS Nr 2740 Usf 20.4.35 Osf 30.1.36 Beim SDHA 1938
Phil Nix

[Mikedc]

Hello Phil,

Thanks for the extra info on the two Opitz-persons and the extra info on Esser...Especially his full DoB is nice to know...


Mike

[Peter J. Hertel]

Hstuf. Wilhelm Esser was a very talented man, if you get my drift, with all the service offices he was in charge of under the BdS in Oslo.


IV 1 a – Kommunissus - Marxsismus
IV 1 b – Mil.Org. - Heimatfront
IV 1 c – Illegal Propaganda
IV 2 a – Waffen illeg.u.legale
IV 2 b – Spionage - Funkabwehr
IV 3 – Schwedenflüchtlinge - Geiseln
IV 5 – Sprengstoffbestimmungen - Plannung von Grossaktion in Verb. mit IV S


Happy Holidays!

Peter

[Mikedc]

Hello Peter,

Thanks for telling us about the other departments he headed, that's usefull info for sure.

Holidays are going good so far, doing a lot of work in and outside my house that I couldn't do earlier this year and for the rest I just relax a bit before I start working again on January 7th.....
And yes, I also enjoyed the food on Christmas-eve and on the first Christmas-day. Today, the second Christmas-day, I tempered it a bit because otherwise I probably will explode


Nice Holidays for you and your family as well,
Mike

[radevich]

Hello Mulisch,

I was going through this old thread of mine and I've found a certain Hugo Podlech in my files who could be the Podlich I was looking for here, more then the Podlich you came up with.

Here's what I've about Hugo Podlich.
Member SS(nr. 322.115).
SS-Untersturmführer.
He worked at the Staff from the BdS in Krakau.
On 30-1-1943 he got promoted to SS-Obersturmführer.
He was head of the Sicherheitsdienst within Einsatzkommando 1 in Oslo.
He was also the adjudant from H. Fehlis.
Last rank probably SS-Hauptsturmführer.


Greetings,
Mike

Podlech
Befehlsblatt des Chefs d.Sich.Pol. u. d. SD Nr. 55/43 from 20.11.1943 als Ostuf. Pol.Insp. (Warschau) „ernannt zum Pol.Ob.Insp.“

[George_W]

SS-Obersturmbannführer Oskar Podlich (*01/06/1908 Striegau) from SD is not the same man as SS-Obersturmführer
Hugo Podlech (*29/11/1906 Ebersbach/Ostpr.) who was an administrative officer attached to KdS Warschau as Pol.Ob.Insp.

George

[Puck]

SD-Befehlsblatt 27/41 from 19.7.41: SS-Stubaf Podlich zum Befh.Metz

Didn't check the promotions yet, just rifling through the SD-Befehlsblätter
(unfortunately 3 months got lost....)

Regards Puck

[smetanin albert]

Add O.Podlich:
Leiter SD-La Kattowitz

[K.Kocjancic]

Does anyone have any more info on Paul Opitz, that in 1941/42 served in Slovenia, as a head of Sonderkommando?

[steve248]

The information below refers to Paul Opitz; KOA Martin Opitz was at Greeko Zakopane/Poland and I have no information that he served in Slovenia or Yugoslavia.

spring 1942
“Sonderbeauftragter des Chefs der SIPO u.d. SD” fighting partisans in Upper Carniola and Lower Styria (“Sonderbeauftragter des Chefs der Sipo u.d.
SD und Führer eines Gebirgskommandos der Sipo zur Partisanenbekämpfung in Oberkrain und der Steiermark”)
source: US NARA, RG 263, CIA Name File of Paul Opitz
source: Siegfried Grundmann, Der Geheimapparat der KPD im Visier der Gestapo, pp 126-130

July-autumn 1941
Leiter des fliegenden Kommandos des RSHA zur verschärften Grenzüberwachung [no location quoted, but likely to be Slovenia]
autumn 41-1942
Sonderbeauftragter des CdSSD, Führer eines Gebirgskommandos der Sipo zur Partisanbekämpfung in Oberkrain und Untersteiermark
source: BA Ludwigsburg, B162/16671

I would say that some of the above must have come from his SSO, which I have not seen.

[George_W]

I have:

KOA Martin (second name possibly Paul) Opitz who served in GPK Zakopane, born 25.11.1913 Dresden, Heimatdienststelle: Stapo Dresden. Served in Zakopane between 1939 and 1941, also in Krakau and Lemberg.

George

[Michal78]

A photo of O. Podlich.
Michal