Karl Boemelburg

Karl Boemelburg (1883 - 1946) was the chief of the Gestapo in France during the Second world war.

Biography

Before the war

1883 . - Birth in Germany.
Years 1930. - He is police chief with the direction of the kripo to the seat of Berlin. At the beginning of the month of November 1938, it is sent to Paris to inquire into the murder of the adviser of embassy Ernst vom Rath. Then the business having been solved quickly, Boemelburg becomes embassy attach3e from Germany to Paris until the month of January 1939, where it is expelled by the general inspector of the judicial police Antoine Mondanel due to assistance provided to the organization Frenchwomen of extreme-right-hand side and the agents of the 5th column.

Paris

June 1940. - It returns in France during the German invasion like advising criminal.
August 1940. - Lieutenant colonel S, it is named by Heinrich Müller like his staff representative and chief of the Gestapo (section IV of BdS for France) with the rank of criminal director.

He was an important person in the hierarchy of the German police force. Before the war, he had worked with Lyon and Saint-Etienne what enabled him to be expressed in good French.

During the years that it passes to Paris, its activity results in repression and the interrogations but as the fashionable evenings and the small presents offered by Henri Lafont coming from the traffics of the black-market and different the spoliations.
One from the wishes from Boemelburg was to have a poultry breeding, Lafont finds to him a farm in the surroundings of Giverny, as it makes exploit by his men.

Its offices are located successively:

* Street of the Willow plantations, until 1942,

* 82 Which occurred Foch.

Its assistants are the Sturmbannführer Kieffer, (to advise criminal), Heimboldt and Wolf.

section IV J in charge of the deportation of the Jews depended on Boemelburg. Aloïs Brunner, sent in 1943 by Müller, of it was the person in charge.

Vichy

November 1943. - Reached by the age limit, Boemelburg is replaced by Stindt, and is transferred to Vichy, where it represents Karl Oberg
June 1944. - To replace the captain S Hugo Geissler killed during a fixing close to Murat (Cantal), he becomes the chief of the Gestapo in southern Zone.

Sigmaringen

August 28th 1944. - It ensures the transfer of the marshal Pétain Sigmaringen, and becomes the chief of the safety of this micro state of operetta.
April 29th 1945. - It authorizes the departure of the Marshal towards the Suisse.

Disappearance

Boemelburg disappears in 1945 and will never officially be found, just like its chief in Berlin, Heinrich Müller. There does not exist practically any information on him in the files, setting with share only one photo catch in group. He dies in 1946.

References

Jacques Delarue, History of the Gestapo ED. Beech, 1962.
Jean Paul Cointet, Sigmaringen ED. Perrin, 2003.
Cyril Eder, countesses of the Gestapo ED. Grasset, 2007.

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