Dr Eberhard Karl Schongarth

Security Police Commander

Eberhard Karl Schongarth was born in Leipzig on 22 April 1903. He studied law achieved a doctorate and first joined the Nazi Party in 1922 but left the same year. After serving in the army during 1924 he worked as a university professor in Leibnitz.

He rejoined the NSDAP in 1933 and joined the SS on the 1 March 1933 as well as the Prussian Gestapo in 1935. From November 1935 to 1936 he was assigned to the press section in the Berlin Gestapo and during the first half of that year also acted as a political lawyer.

He was in charge of the Gestapo office in Arnsberg from May 1936 through 1937 and was commissioned as an SS-Untersturmfuhrer on the 9 November 1936.

He was assigned to the SD Hauptamt (later the RSHA) from November 1936 to October 1939 and was promoted to SS-Obersturmfuhrer on the 30 January 1938, to SS- Hauptsturmfuhrer on 20 April 1938 and to SS-Sturmbannfuhrer on the 1 August 1938.

Schongarth was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer on Himmler’s orders on the 10 September 1939. Schongarth headed a number of Gestapo offices in Bielefeld during 1937 -1938 then Dortmund in the first quarter of 1938 and Munster.

He was the Senior Inspector of the Sipo and SD in Dresden from early October 1939 until he went to the General Government in January 1941. Scongarth was promoted to SS-Standartenfuhrer on the 1 January 1940 and was also made an Oberst der Polizei on the 1 March 1941

Schongarth was based in Krakow he was Senior Commander of the Sipo and SD to mid-June 1943, he was promoted to SS-Oberfuhrer on the 30 January 1941. Dr Schongarth was characterised by an outstanding fast intellectual grasp, strong willpower and an impressive appearance. Schongarth was a bulky figure, which commanded respect and obedience.

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