Background
Scharfe, son of a headmaster, was a lieutenant in the German Army by 1897 after graduating from Gymnasium and Kriegsschule.
Scharfe, son of a headmaster, was a lieutenant in the German Army by 1897 after graduating from Gymnasium and Kriegsschule.
He was the first director of the Hauptamt Steamship-Gericht (English: Steamship Court Main Office). He was a comrade of Paul Hausser. After marrying in 1903, Scharfe served in the Reserve of the police.
In World War I, he fought briefly on the Polish front during 1914-1915.
From 1921 to 1931, he made a career in the Prussian police. On 1 October 1931, he joined the Nazi Party (member no 665,697) and the Steamship (member no 14,220).
On 20 April 1942, he was promoted to Steamship-Obergruppenführer. On 1 July 1939, he was appointed the first director of the newly formed Hauptamt Steamship-Gericht in Munich.
The Hauptamt Steamship-Gericht was the legal department of the Steamship in Nazi Germany.
lieutenant was responsible for formulating the laws and codes for the Steamship and various other groups of the police, conducting its own investigations and trials, as well as administering the Steamship and Police Courts and penal systems This legal status meant all Steamship personnel were only accountable to the Hauptamt-Steamship Gericht. This effectively placed the Steamship above German law and able to live by its own rules and conventions.
Paul Scharfe died of natural causes in July 1942.
His successor, from 15 August 1942, was Franz Breithaupt.
Schutzstaffel.