STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2768, sig. 109-16/3

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OBERST DER PROTECTION POLIZEI BERNHARD GRIESE was born on 17 January 1887 in Ribnitz (Mecklenburg). After several awards in the world war he retired as a lieutenant from the army. From 1919 he was in the service of the German police. At the beginning of this war he again made himself available to the police from retirement. — Colonel of the Protective Police of Griese, as the leader of a group of thrusters, achieved German forces trapped after heavy night fighting, built his soldiers in the defensive ring, who were heavily claimed by the hard wrestling, and forced the opening of the access road the next day through a sharp driveway. RUDOLF MÜHLENKAMP was born on 9 October 1910 as the son of a government councillor in Metz-Mon- tenich. After attending the high school, he worked in the automotive industry. For many years he has been at the service of the protective squadron. -Sturmbannführer Mühlenkamp, as leader of an advance section in a hard fight, overran three armored trenches of the Soviets and invaded the western part of a city on the Don River. Inexorably he continued to reach the river, thus creating the decisive conditions for the transition of two divisions. He was born in Hohenhameln (Pleine County) in 1891, the son of a farmer. Already in the World War 1914-1918 he distinguished himself as a young Offzier. As a proven free corps fighter he joined the ranks of the police. -Standartenführer and Colonel of the protective police Gieseke prevented on the containment front of Leningrad from his own decision and by ruthless use of his person at the head of a reserve company which he quickly put together--doubted breakthrough attempts of far superior enemy forces. -HAUPTSTURMFührER HANS DORR as son of a farmer born on 7 April 1912 in Sontheim in the Allgäu, learned the butcher's trade. In May 1933 he joined the protective team. Infantry training courses followed and the visit of the 4y-Junkerschule Tölz. - 44-Main-Sturmführer Dorr, with a small battle group of his own, made the transition in heavy fire of the opponent on rafting bags in spite of the toughest enemy resistance on the Cuban front, and formed a bridge head on the other side of the bank, which was of decisive importance for the further deployment of his division. -STURMBANNFührER AND MAJOR THE PROTECTION POLICE KARL SCHÜMERS is from Düsseldorf. He was born there as the son of a police officer on 17 October 1905, worked for several years at a bank and entered the police service in 1927. - 44-Sturmbannführer and Major of Schumer's protective police thwarted at the top of the Ladoga Sea in tough close-ups south-east of the village of Laduga, quickly by him assembled shock squads twice in decisive moments of battle, local intrusion of stronger Bolshevik forces in bold counter-strike.