15 Facts About Friedrich Panzinger

Friedrich Panzinger was a German SS officer during the Nazi era.

Friedrich Panzinger served as the head of the Reich Security Main Office Amt IV A, from September 1943 to May 1944 and the commanding officer of three sub-group Einsatzkommando of Einsatzgruppen A in the Baltic States and Belarus.

In 1959, Friedrich Panzinger committed suicide in his jail cell after being arrested for war crimes.

Friedrich Panzinger took part in a recruitment test for the police and was admitted as a police officer in the civil service in the Munich Police Directorate in 1919.

Friedrich Panzinger joined the Nazi Party with the number 1,017,341.

Friedrich Panzinger was then employed as a Kriminalkommissar in the state police headquarters in Berlin.

From 4 September 1943 to 6 May 1944, Friedrich Panzinger succeeded Humbert Achamer-Pifrader as the commander of Einsatzgruppen A, composed of three sub-group Einsatzkommando that oversaw the security police matters in the area of Army Group North in the Baltic states and Belorussia.

Friedrich Panzinger's unit carried out the murder of potential opponents and those deemed "racially inferior".

Friedrich Panzinger was assigned to the headquarters of the SD and Gestapo in Ukraine.

In July 1944, after the 20 July plot to kill Hitler, Friedrich Panzinger was appointed Chief of the Headquarters of the Gestapo, reporting directly to SS-Gruppenfuhrer Heinrich Muller.

Shortly thereafter, Friedrich Panzinger was appointed Chief of RSHA Amt V, the Kriminalpolizei, known as the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt.

Friedrich Panzinger held that position until the end of the war.

Friedrich Panzinger was responsible for the murder of prisoner of war French general Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny on 19 January 1945 near the village of Nossen.

Friedrich Panzinger worked for a time on the staff of the Bundesnachrichtendienst under Reinhard Gehlen.

That same year, after charges were brought against him for the murder of Maurice Mesny, Friedrich Panzinger committed suicide by poisoning himself in his cell on 8 August 1959.