Julius Schreck Information

[Gregorio Torres]

I need this info about Julius Schreck:

1. Place of birth
2. Reason of death (traffic crash or meningitis)

Thank you very much in advance and best regards from Spain.

Gregorio

[ramon]

Schreck was born in Munich, July 13, 1898. Source is Männer im Dritten Reich.

[williwo]

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[Gregorio Torres]

Thank you Ramon.
Very good photo williwo. I have this one in a cigarrete card album, but thank you very much.
And now I need the info about his real reason of death. Please, help.

Gregorio

[williwo]

Yes, it´s the photo is from the cigarette album "ADOLF HITLER".

I found no original source. Only postwar literature, and there is the reason of death cerebrospinal meningitis.

[Gregorio Torres]

Thank you again, Williwo. There is two different version in the postwar sources: sometimes they talk about a traffic crash and sometimes about meningitis. But it would be important for me to know surely the authentic reason.
Gregorio

[Gregorio Torres]

Unfortunately Rudolf Hess didn´t tell anything about this in his funeral speech.

[Erich B.]

I've read that it was meningitis in a number of references, although I'll have to check to see if I can find it in a period reference.
Erich

[ramon]

I'm still looking as well. I have examined the 28. Mai 1936 issue of Das Schware Korps which details the Schreck funeral and can find no mention as to cause of death. I will look at all May and June issue to see if anything else might be mentioned.


Ramon

[Michael Miller]

Here's his entry from The SS-Brigadeführer, 1933 - 1945, by myself and Andreas Schulz.

~ Mike Miller

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* 13.07.1898 in München / Bayern.<O></O>

+ 16.05.1936 in München (cerebrospinal meningitis).<O></O>

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53 <O></O>
(First joined, 05.10.1921; left, then reenrolled, 27.02.1925)<O></O>



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5 <O></O>
(Joined 01.11.1925)<O></O>



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21.09.1925 - 15.04.1926 (first) “Oberleiter“ (= Reichsführer) der SS<O></O>
01.11.1925 SS-Anwärter<O></O>

21.03.1932 SS-Sturmführer (m.W..v. 20.02.1932)<O></O>

20.02.1933 SS-Standartenführer (m.W.v. 30.01.1933)<O></O>

02.03.1934 SS-Oberführer (m.W.v. 27.02.1934)<O></O>

09.01.1935 SS-Brigadeführer (m.W.v. 01.01.1935)<O></O>



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00.00.191_ 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse<O></O>
00.00.191_ Bayerisches Militärverdienstkreuz __. Klasse<O></O>

00.00.193_ Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer<O></O>

00.00.193_ Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP<O></O>

09.11.1933 Blutorden der NSDAP (Nr. 349) <O></O>

14.10.1932 Coburger Abzeichen<O></O>

[00.00.1935] Totenkopfring der SS<O></O>

16.12.1935 Julleuchter der SS<O></O>

00.00.193_ Ehrenwinkel für Altekämpfer<O></O>

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m.W.v. - "mit Wirkung vom" (with effect from)

[Michael Miller]

Not certain, but I believe the cause of death (cerebrospinal meningitis) appears in his SS-Personalakte, which can be obtained on microfilm from the National Archives II in College Park, MD (one of 909 rolls which provide SS personnel files of 61,000+ officers, so there will also be many other officers' records on the roll in question; cost is around $34.95). My coauthor, Andreas Schulz, relies heavily on original SS officer records at the former BDC in Berlin, and I believe that's where he obtained the cause of death.

Best wishes,
~ Mike Miller

[Gregorio Torres]

Thank you very much Michael, Erich and Ramon.

I´ll take as cause of death the disease (cerebrospinal meningitis). But I was wondering about the origin of the other version, because a lot of postwar literature say "traffic accident".
Anyway Julius Schreck was allways a misterious person.
If you find anything else in a period reference please let me know.
Best regards from Spain, and thank you once again.