WWII German Gestapo / SD Personnel Promotion File – BdS Metz – Signed by Heinrich Himmler!

Name: WWII German Gestapo / SD Personnel Promotion File – BdS Metz - Signed by Heinrich Himmler!
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Rare and historically significant original Third Reich personnel file relating to Karl Schmidt, a jurist who served within the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) and later the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). The appointment proposal bears an original period ink signature of Heinrich Himmler.

The document group concerns Schmidt’s appointment from Regierungsassessor to Regierungsrat and includes official correspondence between the Reich Ministry of the Interior and the Präsidialkanzlei des Führers und Reichskanzlers.

Particularly noteworthy is the detailed personnel record listing Schmidt’s career progression through the judicial system before entering the Gestapo and subsequently being appointed to a senior security position in occupied France.

The file records that Schmidt:

Passed the first legal examination on 30 October 1930
Passed the major state examination in 1934
Served as Gerichtsassessor and later as a lawyer in Hamm
Entered the Staatspolizeileitstelle Stuttgart on 18 July 1939
Was transferred to the State Police office at Neustadt an der Weinstraße in 1940
Was permanently accepted into the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) service on 1 October 1940
Was transferred on 1 July 1941 as Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) in Metz, occupied Lorraine

The personnel sheet further notes:

Membership in the NSDAP since 1 May 1933
Party number 2,939,452
Rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer im SD
Association with the Reichsstelle für Sippenforschung

An especially interesting feature is the official statement:

“Die Parteikanzlei hat Einwendungen gegen die Ernennung nicht erhoben.”
(“The Party Chancellery has raised no objections to the appointment.”)

The document bears official filing references, stamps, annotations, and facsimile signatures associated with the appointment process handled through the Führer’s Chancellery.

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Historical Description

This document group relates to the wartime career of Karl Schmidt, a German jurist who entered the security apparatus of the Third Reich and served within the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) during the Second World War.

Born in Stuttgart in 1906, Schmidt pursued a legal career, successfully passing both his legal examinations before working as a court assessor and later as an attorney in Hamm. Like many legally trained officials of the period, he was drawn into the expanding state security bureaucracy after the outbreak of war. In July 1939 he entered service with the State Police Office in Stuttgart and subsequently became a permanent member of the Gestapo.

The personnel records contained in this document group trace his advancement through the ranks of the German civil service and security establishment. Of particular significance is the notation recording his transfer on 1 July 1941 to the headquarters of the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (BdS) in Metz, the regional command responsible for coordinating the activities of the Gestapo, Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), and SD in occupied Lorraine.

The file further records Schmidt’s membership in the NSDAP and his rank as SS-Hauptsturmführer im SD, illustrating the close relationship between the Party, SS, and state administration during the Third Reich. The inclusion of references to the Reichsstelle für Sippenforschung and the approval process involving the Party Chancellery provides additional insight into the extensive political and racial vetting procedures required for senior governmental appointments.

At the center of the group is an official 1942 promotion proposal elevating Schmidt from Regierungsassessor to Regierungsrat, submitted through the Reich Ministry of the Interior and reviewed by the Präsidialkanzlei des Führers und Reichskanzlers. Such documents reveal the bureaucratic mechanisms through which legal professionals and security officials advanced within the Nazi state.

Today, surviving personnel records of Gestapo and SD officials are highly sought after by historians and collectors because they provide direct documentary evidence of careers, assignments, promotions, party affiliations, and administrative structures within the German security apparatus. This file offers a rare and detailed glimpse into the professional development of a wartime security official serving within one of the most important institutions of the Third Reich.