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Emil Maurice

Emil Maurice

Male 1897 - 1972  (75 years)    Has no ancestors and no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Emil Maurice 
    Birth 19 Jan 1897 
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 Feb 1972 
    Person ID I652157  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2009 

    Family Angela Maria Geli Raubal,   b. 4 Jun 1908, Linz, Ober-Österreich, Österreich Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Sep 1931 (Age 23 years) 
    Family ID F286189  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2009 

  • Notes 
    • was an early member of the Nazi Party . A watchmaker, he was a close associate of Adolf Hitler with a personal friendship dating back to at least 1919 . With the founding of the Sturmabteilung in 1920 , Maurice became the first Oberster SA-Führer (Supreme SA Leader).
      In 1923 , Maurice also became the SA commander of the newly established Stabswache which was a special SA company tasked to guard Adolf Hitler at Nazi parties and rallies.
      In 1925 , two years after the failed Beer Hall Putsch , Emil Maurice and Adolf Hitler refounded the Stabswache as the Stosstrupp Adolf Hitler which was renamed, later that year, as the Schutzstaffel (SS). At that time, Hitler became SS Member nr. 1 and Emil Maurice became SS Member nr. 2. Maurice became an SS- Führer in the new organization, although the leadership of the SS was assumed by Julius Schreck , the first Reichsführer-SS .
      He reportedly had a brief relationship with Geli Raubal , Hitler's niece.
      When the SS was reorganized and began to expand in 1932 , Maurice became a senior SS officer and would eventually be promoted to the rank SS- Oberführer . While Maurice never became a top commander of the SS his status as SS Member effectively credited him as the actual founder of the organization. Heinrich Himmler , who ultimately would become the most recognized leader of the SS, held SS Member
      Maurice's stagnant SS career, after Himmler had become Reichsführer-SS , has lead historians to uncover evidence that Himmler suspected Maurice as being part Jewish . Himmler had lobbied for Emil Maurice to be removed from the SS, although Hitler never approved this due to Maurice's early membership in the Schutzstaffel.



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