Schneidemühl Gestapo

[George_W]

Hi,

Bernhard Pape
18/11/1913 born Heiligenstadt/Th
1937-1940 Stapo Königsberg
1940 promoted KK
1940-1942 Stapo Schneidemühl
1942-1944 KdS Lemberg, Abt IV N
1944 with EG H in Slovakia, BdS Slovakien Abt IV N
1945-1947 under British internement

1981 still alive and lived in Oldenburg

George

[rongali]

Hi George,

Thank's.

In fact, my parents were from Zolkiew a little town 30 km from Lemberg. Mother told me about an brutal SS name Pape which was apparently living there (or may be comming every day from Lemberg?). There was a big Aktion in novemberg 1942 and Zolkiew was judenrein in mars 1943.

I wonder if it is the Bernhard Pape we find in Lemberg in 1942 ? Have you an idéa ?

You write "1940-1942 Stapo Schneidemühl". What does-it mean ? Where was he ?

Mother also told me about a chief of gendarmerie name Kather. And a Landskommisar named Rockendorf. Both also found in Zolkiew. I never found any trace of them. May be you will ? Do you know what was exactly a Landskommisar ?

Regards

AS

[steve248]

Pape was the subject of two war crimes investigations, 1966-1974 that involved his service with Einsatzgruppe H, Slovakia, 1944-1945. Neither investigation came to trial.
Possibly he was investigated for crimes in Poland but I have nothing about that.
Pape died 3 Nov 1984, Oldenburg i.O.

[rongali]

Hello Georg and Steve

Thanks for your informations.

Like I told, Zolkiew is a little town ( at the begining of the war 10000 inhabitants , 5000 jews, the others polish and ukrainiens) about 30 kms from Lemberg.

Almost all the jews were killed. Some were hidden and survived. This included my mother now dead. All the survivors told exactly what happened. Some wrote books. They gaved the names of the germans who prevailed there. During the "aktions" camed a lot of SS from Lemberg. I found who they are and what hapenned to them.

They all say that the chief of the SS in Zolkiew whas Pape who had headquarters in Zolkiew. He apparently lived there for a time. He was very brutal, crual, killing children under the eyes of their parents etc.

I contacted the Bundesarchiv in Ludwigsburg. They told me that there was no investigation about crimes in Zolkiew and Pape is most probably SS-Hauptsturmführer Bernhard Georg Pape. I don't find another SS named Pape in this region at that time.

You said : 1942-1944 KdS Lemberg, Abt IV N. What is " Abt IV N" ?

He is never mantionned whith Zolkiew ? Of corse , like you said, since he commited crimes in Zolkiew he did not mentioned about it. Do you know what he said when he was was interrogated ?

The book of Dieter Pohl : "Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien 1941- 1944" is in german, no traduction in english or french. I don't understand german. May be somebody can check if he write something about Pape ? Or other germans who commited crimes in Zolkiew.

Best

[steve248]

Department (Abt - Abteilung) IV N was responsible for the Gestapo network of informers.

This department was present in every Gestapo office.

The Dieter Pohl book (and the similar one by Thomas Sandkühler) have not been translated from German.

I am not aware of anything about Pape in English (other than a single line in an interrogation report by someone else).

[rongali]

Hello
Does anyone know what was a Landskommissar in a occupied city ? His task ? Was he SS ? Wehrmacht ? Nazil ? Civil ?

Thank's

[rongali]

Hello,
I am always in search of the main SS Zolkiew (30km from Lemberg in Galicia ); It may be SS-Hauptsturmführer Bernhard Georg Pape.
But I just read a testimony where het is called "Von Pape" not only Pape.It is said that he is 69 years old (is it possible to have an SS so old ? );
Another witness said he camed from Bielefeld .

Can anyone tell me what he thinks ?

Arnold

[smetanin albert]

from SSO Sachse

[George_W]

Adolf Henry Jonny Behrmann
SS-Stubaf. KD
born 19.04.1892 Hamburg
SS Nr 375 129
NSDAP Nr 3 673 439
Promoted to SS-Stubaf. on 30.01.1942.

1943, transfer of SS-Stubaf. KR Behrmann from Stapo Hamburg to Stapo Danzig [BBL 9/1943]

1945, SS-Stubaf. KR Behrmann listed with KdS Danzig promoted KD [BBL 1/1945]

In 1947 KD Adolf Behrmann was interned by the British authorities (3 CIC) and was the subject of Polish extradition request.

George

[smetanin albert]

Add Info
(from SSO Krüger)

[George_W]

Thank You for posting that document.

KK Leideritz – head of GPK Kolomea (KdS Lemberg)
KK Eisel – head of III C with KdS Lemberg, later the head of AdS Czortkow (KdS Lemberg)
KK Hildemann – head of AdS Czortkow (KdS Lemberg)
KR Kraus – head of Abt.IV with KdS Lemberg
KK Heyduk – head of AdS Sokal (KdS Lemberg)
KK Raizner – no informations, probably attached to Abt.IV with KdS Lemberg
KK Cygan – no informations, probably attached to Abt.IV with KdS Lemberg
KK Kutschmann – attached to III A with KdS Lemberg, later head of Gestapo in GPK Drohobycz and AdS Tarnopol with KdS Lemberg
KK Krüger – head of GPK Stanislau (Stanislawow) with KdS Lemberg
KK Pape – head of III N, later IV N with KdS Lemberg
KK Hofmann – no informations, probably attached to Abt.IV with KdS Lemberg

According to BBL 20/1944 KK Hofmann was transferred to KdS Lemberg from Stapo Breslau.

Before being posted to KdS Lemberg, KK Leideritz was attached to KdS Lublin, KK Eisel was attached to KdS Krakau and KK Hildemann was attached to KdS Lublin (head of GPK Biala Podlaska)

George

[smetanin albert]

About Raizner and Cygan

[George_W]

Paul Adolf Raizner died 03.01.1974 in Göttingen.

Cygan was interrogated in 1978, residing in Stockach/Baden at that time.

Unfortunately i don't have any informations about their assignation (position) inside KdS Lemberg.

George

[George_W]

Erich Hofmann

George