Franz Sauer (1893-) was a German SS officer and a member of Adolf Hitler's 27-man SS-Begleitkommando des Führers during the 1930s.
Biography[]
Franz Sauer was born in the German Empire in 1893, and he served in the Imperial German Army during World War I before joining the Nazi Party during the Interwar period. He was friends with the civil servant Paul von Hartmann during their youths, and they reunited in 1938, by which time Sauer had become an SS officer and a member of Adolf Hitler's 27-man SS-Begleitkommando des Führers. He grew suspicious of his old friend due to Hartmann's involvement in the Oster conspiracy, and he attempted to foil Hartmann's plan to smuggle an incriminating document (revealing Hitler's expansionist designs on the rest of Europe) to the British, only for the secretary Helen Winter to hide the document and prevent Sauer from finding it.