English Translation

6-1a Guardian of impunity Guardian of blamelessness. To the memory of the 4-upper group leader S ch a r f e, head of the main office 4-court. On 29 July 1942 the chief of the Hauptamt 1⁄2 court, 7-upper-group leader and general of the weapons-71⁄2 Paul S c a r for e , died at the age of nearly 66 years. He could have lived longer if, according to his physical condition, he had put down his work. But he also did more than his duty in the war, as the Reichsführer 4ł had ordered, and did not spare himself. The former young active officer, who later worked mannlich for Germanism in the popular struggle of the eastern region, did not hide from his national position as a police officer and intervened in the fight against communism in such a way that he was not wearable for the Weimar system. He found early the way to the Führer and Reichsführer-71⁄2, for which he built up the disciplinary, difficult and honorable secretion of the 4. He designed the Discipline and Complaints Regulations, as well as the Schied and Honorary Court Regulations of the f. In addition, he created the special criminal jurisdiction for the 4 and the police, which now exists for almost three years. 4 Obergruppenführer Scharfe was the right man for his difficult position as head of the Hauptamt 1⁄2-Gericht. He assumed that the cohesion and validity of the 4 rests on the comradeship. He knew that the disciplinary and criminal system had to appear first to many as a foreign body. He also always cared very much when he had to punish old combat-proven 41⁄2 men. But he forced himself to the necessary hardship, because he had realized that all human indulgence must cease where the heart of the community demands a painful intervention, even if it is often painful. He who is a member of the Order must know that he has taken on increased duties and that he who has misleaded these orders and taken damage to his honour has lost the right to continue to belong to our community. He who forced the guiding idea of selection to often bitter but necessary decisions. 1⁄2-upper group leader Scharfe lived and worked according to the Führer's words: "As a leader be hard in your own impeachment, decided in the representation of the necessary, helpful and good to your subordinates, never petty in the assessment of human weaknesses, great in the recognition of the needs of others and modest in yours!