Gauleiter Albert Forster 1902 - ?

[Researcher]

Trying to find the date of death of Gauleiter Albert Forster.
Searching the web brings up 1948, 1950, and 1954.

All I know for sure he was convicted and sentenced to death by a Polish Court in Danzig : April 27th or 29th 1948.

Some say he was executed. Others have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment and he died on 31st March 1954.

Please can someone give the answer for sure?!

Regards
Reseacher

[WojtekK]

Correct date is: 28.2.1952. This date came from book Dieter Schenk - "Hitlers Mann in Danzig. Gauleiter Forster und die NS-Verbrechen in Danzig-Westpreussen." Date is correct in 100 % because in book is photo Forster's deceases act, which came from polish secret agency.

[Georges JEROME]

HI Wojtek,

does this book deal with Georg Ebrecht and Polizeichef Schafer ?

Georges.

can you give full references of this book

thanks

Georges

[WojtekK]

Dieter Schenk - "Hitlers Mann in Danzig. Gauleiter Forster und die NS-Verbrechen in Danzig-Westpreussen." Bonn 2000

Book was published in Germany & Poland (in USA or UK I don't know).
Book is a biography of Albert Forster. In book are some infos about Ebrecht and Schafer and others SS-men in Gau Danzig-Westpreussen. Book is very good!!!

Regards

Wojtek

[Greyfinn]

I confirm, very good and meticulously made study....(part history of my city - so I carefully veryfied details)
Regards
Greyfinn

[Researcher]

Thanks guys

Can you confirm the date he was sentenced to death.

Was he hanged?

regards
Researcher

[David Thompson]

Here's what I've got, which includes contemporaneous newspaper sources for his sentencing on 29 Apr 1948.

Forster, Albert (26.7.1902-1952?) [SS-Obergruppenfűhrer (hon.)] -- NSDAP: 1924 (joined 1923); SS: 158; journalist with the antisemitic newspaper "Der Stürmer" 1926; Reichstag deputy (Mitglied des Reichstages) for electoral district (Wahlkreis) 26 Franconia (Franken) 14 Sept 1930-May 1945; NSDAP Provincial Leader (Gauleiter) of Danzig (Gauleiter des Gaues Danzig) 15 Oct 1930-7 Oct 1939; Prussian State Councilor (Preussischen Staatsrat) 15 Sept 1933-8 May 1945; Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia (Gauleiter des Gaues Danzig-Westpreussen) 26 Oct 1939-8 May 1945; Reich Defense Commissioner (Reichsverteidigungskommissar) for Gau Danzig-Westpreussen 16 Nov 1942-May 1945; Governor (Reichstatthalter), Danzig-West Prussia {sought as a war criminal by Poland 23 May 1945 (LT 24 May 1945:3:d); taken prisoner at Hamburg by British troops 27 May 1945 (NYT 28 May 1945:1:6); extradited to Poland on war crimes charges; put on trial by the Polish National Supreme Court; convicted and sentenced to death by hanging 29 Apr 1948 (NYT 30 Apr 1948:5:6; NYT 5 May 1948:18:6; LT 7 Apr 1948:3d; LT 30 Apr 1948:4c); variously said to have been executed at Warsaw on 28 Apr 1948 (Encyclopedia of the Third Reich pps. 284-5), 28 Feb 1952 [official Polish statement] (ABR-Gaue), 31 Mar 1954 (SS: Roll of Infamy p. 47) or in Dec 1955 [German Red Cross statement] (SS: Roll of Infamy p. 48). Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP [9 Nov 1944]; Leaders and Personalities of the Third Reich vol. 1, p. 272).}

[WojtekK]

Correct date is: 28.2.1952. Date is correct in 100 % because in book is photo Forster's deceases act, which came from polish secret agency.

This is in 100% true

no comments

Wojtek

[Researcher]

Hi WojtekK

I believe you. honest! The correct date is 28.2.1952 . . . OK!

All I want to know is, does the book say he was executed

Thanks
Researcher

[dylan]

hi Researcher

book of dieter schenk gives him executed.
his polisch file gives the same time executed as the book.

regards dylan

[WojtekK]

from this book (Dieter Schenk - Hitlers Mann...): Forster was hanged in Central Prison in Warsaw (Warszawa, Rakowiecka street) 28.2.1952 on 14 o'clock. Execution was over on 14:30 o'clock.

Regards

Wojtek

[Greyfinn]

Hello guys,
In nearst future I'll scan photo and article from local nwespaper from Gdansk/Danzig , issued after his execution....but firstly I have to go to library to find it (maybe it won't be easy).
I saw many years ago photo of Albert Forster after execution .
Regards
Greyfinn

[Researcher]

Hi Greyfinn

Don't go to any trouble. We have established the execution date for sure.

Was the trial in Gdansk or Warsaw?

Regards
Researcher

[WojtekK]

The trial was in Gdañsk (court: NTN - Najwy¿szy Trybuna³ Narodowy)

Wojtek

[Wilfried Abenaschon]

What were the charges? And why has he been killed so long after?
Willab