Poland War Crime Trials

[ansata1976]

Is it possible to get a list of names of men and women arrested by the polish authorities- not extradited(German and Volksdeutsche) .

[George_W]

As far i know, there is no such list.

George

[ansata1976]

This could be a start for such a list. Add ons are very welcome:

Franciszek Mielke
25.02.1892
Aufseher in prison Naklo.
Trial 18.05.1946 death sentence for shooting of Poles
sentence reduced to life.
Died in prison 27.08.1948

Franz Lawitschko
22.04.1899
Kommandant Orpo in Stary Sacz
Todesstrafe wegen Beteiligung an Gewaltverbrechen, Mord ,Festnahmen, Razzien,
executed 11.01.1955

Jan Butz
16.11.1902
Mitglied SA in Piwniczna
death sentence 16.11.1945 wegen Mishandlung, Teilnahme bei Razzien
Died in prison 08.12.1945

Pawel Nowak
22.05.1907
Volksdeutsch
Trial 25.02.1947 death sentence wegen Denuziation, Beteiligung an und Inhaftierung eines Polen in Szczakowa.
executed 02.12.1947

Ernst Minter
27.10.1905
SS-Mann, Kommandof. camp Gieszcze Puste
death sentence wegen Beteiligung an Gewaltverbrechen im Lager
executed 02.06.1947

Karl Herzik
10.09.1906
member Selbstschutz and Schupo in Krakau and Tarnow
death sentence 24.11.1945
executed 18.03.1946

Josef Wolny
25.12.1893
SA Wielun
executed 27.04.1946

Adolf Orlowski
01.03.1906
Waffen SS and Guard in prison Radogoszcz
executed 22.03.1946

Else Betke
11.09.1911
guard in camps in Inowrocław, Kutno, Zamosc
death sentence 07.06.1945
executed 16.07.1945

Heinrich Süssdorf
06.03.1907
Gendarmerie Tarnobrzeg, Debica
executed 08.07.1948

Oskar Berg
03.10.1909.
Death sentence 22.03.1947 wegen Mishandlung, Denuziation und Aussiedlungen in Pryjoma Kreis Dzialdowa
executed 24.10.1947

Max Ködel
26.11.1892
Kommandant der Schutzpolizei in Jarocin
trial 13.06.1947 sentenced to 10 Years imprisonment
died in prison 25.09.1949

Reinhold Lucht
21.04.1887
death sentence ,reduced to life
died in prison 08.06.1949

Adolf Schlag
08.07.1912
member Selbstschutz
death sentence 04.11.1948
executed 22.11.1949

Paul Schmidt
28.03.1910
Gendarmerie Nowe/Neuenburg
death sentence wegen Beteiligung an Festnahmen und Razzien.
executed 17.06.1947

Josef Krazel
10.08.1922
Gendarmerie
death sentence 27.09.1948
executed 17.01.1949

Michael Rode
16.01.1921
Gendarmerie Kreis Konin
death sentence wegen Beteiligung an Gewaltverbrechen und Mord, Inhaftierungen
executed 28.04.1948

Otto Bunn
21.10.1914
Selbstschutz Kulm
death sentence 23.04.1947
executed 04.06.1947

Hermann Ramm
22.01.1873
death sentence 04.12.1945 wegen denunziation im Szamotuly
executed 04.02.1946

Robert Weizner
02.11.1865 ??
Hilfspolizei im Kreis Dirschau
death sentence 23.03.1946
executed 17.04.1946

Georg Will
08.08.1900
Kreisleiter im Kreis Rippin
death sentence 25.11.1948
executed 02.07.1949

Oskar Melzer
21.02.1908
Funktionar der Hilfspolizei in Konstantynow
death sentence 14.11.1946
executed 13.05.1947

Emil Hein
18.06.1895
NSDAP Mitglied in Wymyslow
death sentence 12.09.1945
executed 17.07.1945

Ernst Dickmann
07.07.1911
Leiter des Bezirksamtes in Kamienna Gora
death sentence 10.12.1945 for murder of 93 prisoners
executed 22.01.1946 in Wroclaw

Jan Siering
31.01.1924
Gendarmerie Zamosc Stary
Death sentence Trial in Zamosc 18.03.1947
executed 28.06.1947

Horst Gunter Winkler
09.05.1917
death sentence 28.06.1948 reduced to life

Jakob Morhardt
23.03.1899
SS-Wachmann Fünfteichen (Miłoszyce)
executed 08.11.1947

Hugo Förster
22.09.1903
first he got life sentence 14.09.1948
after this he received death sentence for torturing Jewish laborers in a glass factory at Piotrkov
executed 19.06.1949

Fritz Kühn
24.06.1903
Selbstschutz Grudziądz
executed 20.02.1946

Gerhard Kusch
28.09.1906
Selbstschutz Terespola
executed 18.08.1947

Maximilian Kwast
15.08.1909
interpreter Gestapo Zakopane
executed 18.08.1948

Bernhard Lell
01.06.1906 in Płachty
Gestapo Lublin
executed 15.04.1950

Paul Petrausch
21.07.1899
Railway official
executed 09.08.1946

Alfons Pietruszewski
02.01.1915
Kapo Mauthausen Camp
executed 20.12.1947

Friedrich Pawlowski
02.10.1899
Oberkapo Sachsenhausen
executed 02.08.1948

Gustav Schmatzler
17.01.1895 in Neudorf
SS-Hauptscharführer Gestapo Jaslo
executed 16.03.1946

Alfred Zilz
04.11.1911
Selbstschutz Białochowa
executed 10.04.1947

Zygmunt Zapart
18.11.1925
Kapo Gusen
executed 20.01.1949

Max Weiss
22.06.1897 in Breslau
SS-Oberscharführer Groß-Rosen
executed 10.06.1948

Friedrich Thomke
23.07.1912
Gendarmerie Niedrzwica
executed 01.01.1960

Emil Strehlau
12.03.1904
SS-Rottenführer Stutthof
executed 08.11.1948

Hans Antweiler
25.05.1919 in Köln
Waffen SS (Dirlewanger)
executed 05.08.1946

Eduard August
11.04.1909 in Lodz
guard Ghetto Lodz
executed 28.01.1946

Alfred Bakinstoss
06.05.1920
Vollstrecker des Mordes an Juden in Siedlce, SS-Mann
executed 06.08.1946

Paul Bergmann
06.01.1906
Member Waffen SS and Guard in prison Radogoszcz
executed 26.03.1946

Julius Bialas
26.06.1916 in Fünfkirchen
Gendarmerie Rzeszow
executed 23.11.1946

Paul Bunk
06.04.1903 in Kotzine
Oberwachtmeister Gendarmerie Radom
executed 05.12.1949

Bernhard Czolba
07.12.1910
Gestapo Gdansk
executed 09.04.1949

Karl Ferdinand Drews
29.07.1903 in Gribuo
member Wehrmacht
executed 13.11.1947

Franz Fikus
06.05.1911
SS- Oberscharführer Stapo Oppeln
executed 18.08.1950

Johann Franke
20.06.1899
official in Tarnow
executed 01.06.1946

Reinhold Fraschke
13.03.1906
Police Lodz
executed 19.08.1946

Josef Gorniewicz
04.07.1923
Gestapo chief ghetto Baranowicze
executed 26.11.1947

Oskar Gustav Grudzinski
08.10.1900
Hilfspolizei in Tomaszow Mazowiecki
executed 13.12.1945

Else Hain
20.09.1913
Lagerführerin Peterswaldau (Pieszyce)
executed 17.10.1946

Ernst Julitz
29.05.1896
Gendarmerie Kamieniey Polskiej
executed 04.12.1945

Otto Kappa
05.09.1903
deputy commander of the gendarmerie in Miechow
executed 22.12.1947

Michael Klein
28.09.1910
Hilfspolizei in Skrzyszewo
executed 26.10.1945

Emanuel Jasmuth
05.09.1889
Gestapo Raciborzu(Ratibor)
executed 09.04.1948

Albert Jopek
23.04.1899
Arbeitslager Potulitz
executed 10.01.1947

Martin Klütsch
20.12.1912 in Köln
SS-Untersturmführer Gross Rosen
executed 03.07.1949

Heinrich Köster
18.08.1910 in Kostorz
Schupo Tschenstochau
executed 19.02.1946

Siegmund Studzinski
02.11.1898
member Sipo
executed 07.12.1949

Johann Neils
23.11.1884
Polizei Rzeszow
executed 16.09.1949

Tadeusz Michalski
29.12.1901
Gestapo Wielun
executed 03.06.1948

Johann Kropfitsch
17.07.1903
Police Tomaszow
executed 29.02.1952

Rudolf Kramp
04.10.1892
Lodz Ghetto Administration
executed 25.01.1946

Gerhard Kampert
07.08.1911
Gestapo agent
executed 21.02.1948

Alfons Himmel
15.01.1909 in Zabrze
Gendarmerie Lipsko
executed 1949

This could be a start for such a list. Add ons are very welcome.

thank you dylan for great information

[ansata1976]

Hermann Szabelski
11.02.1907
Gestapo Tschenstochau
Death sentence 05.06.1946
suicide in prison 10.07.1946.

Alfred Mucha
13.10.1910
death sentence 30.08.1945 for murder and maltreatment of jewish
executed 29.04.1947 in Bedzin

Frieda Bölter
18.01.1899
death sentence 16.05.1946 in Torun/Thorn
commuted to 15 years imprisonment 01.06.1946
died in prison 31.03.1953

Gustav Berger
30.10.1899 in Lodz
Obergruppenführer , Fire Brigade of the Marinebekleidungsamt
23.07.1946 death sentence special court in Lodz for Maltreatment of polish people
19.08.1946 commuted to life imprisonment

Willy Filkenberger
1940-1944 member German Police
sentenced to 6 years imprisonment 1946 in Krakau

Felix Kaczmarek
19.11.1917
sentence to death reduced to 15 years
still in prison 1957

Tichter Albert
16.08.1874
death sentence 12.09.1946
executed 19.10.1946

Pollatz Erich
28.11.1906 in Pedzewo
Selbstschutz Bydgoszczy
executed 16.08.1946

Jan Fuchler
15.08.1891
Guard in prison Radogoszcz
Death sentence by the Special Criminal Court in Lodz 25.02.1946
Commuted to 15 years imprisonment 09.03.1946
Released 03.05.1954

Casimir Orlowski
15.03.1925
Kapo im Lager Sikawa
Death sentence by the Special Criminal Court in Lodz 29.10.1947
Commuted to Life imprisonment 08.05.1948
Died 26.05.1951 in Prison

Rudolf Leuna
27.03.1901
Member Waffen SS and Guard in prison Radogoszcz
Sentenced to Life imprisonment 2. März 1949
Released 17.06.1957

Ernst Hildebrand
1888 in Gotha
Head of the Police in Jaslo
sentenced to death
sentence reduced to life and released in 1956

Paul Gustav Schubert
07.10.1919
Commander Police (OrPo) District Galicyjski
executed 14.06.1948 in Wroclaw

Otto Krimmer
Oberleutnant
Commander Gendarmerie District Krakow
03.08.1907 in Backnang
death sentence 30.07.1945
executed 1946????

Max Heimberg
13.11.1911
death sentence 15.05.1945 for war crimes
executed 12.07.1946 in Lublin


This could be a start for such a list. Add ons are very welcome. Every additional name with dates can help to create such a list.

e.g I need more information about:

Wilhelm Perl SS-Mann Trial Warszawa 1947 death sentence
Otto Ronthaler SS-Mann Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Wilhelm Decker SS-Mann Trial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Paul Manderl or Mander SS-Mann Trial Raciborzu 1948 death sentence
Otto Lau Gestapo Trial Torun 1949 death sentence
Hubert Scholz Gestapo Trial Torun 1949 death sentence
Rudolf Otto Broese Gestapo Trial Torun 1949 death sentence
Arthur Müller Bahnschutz Skarzysku-Kamiennej Trial Radom 1948 death sentence
Maximilian Schindler police deutsche Volksbund Trial Katowice 1949 death sentence
Alfred Kühne German Police in Warszawa Trial 1947??? death sentence
Arnold Fischer volksdeutsch Gestapo Kielce Trial Kielce 1947
Robert Kahla volksdeutsch Gendarm Trial Warschau 1948 death sentence
Willy Domnowski Selbstschutz Brodnicy Trial Grudziadz 1949
Karl Lehrke who betrayed Jews to the Germans. Sentenced to death 1947 in Stettin
Herman Schmaltz German security police sentenced to death 10.10.1945 in Warsaw
Hans Ritter member Gestapo Radom sentenced to death 03.06.1945 in Lublin
Hans Schroder leader of the labor camp at Stettin sentenced to death 1947 in Stettin
Karol Ertner Schupo Lodz death sentence 23.02.1947
Elisabeth Lacis member staff Arbeitserziehungslager Sikawie death sentence 04.01.1946
Paul Heinrich Theodor Müller 30.01.1896 SS-Obersturmführer KZ Buna/Monowitz Trial Nysie 1947
Felix Brenek Gendarm Trial 1947
Maximilian Brzesko Gendarmerie Falenicy/member Gestapo Trial Warschau 1947
Richard Baran Trial Warschau 1947
Wilhelm Schnabel Trial Wroclaw 1947 death sentence reduced to 15 years imprisonment
Josef Kandzie chef Kripo Trial Nowy Targu 1949 death sentence
Reinhold Dimm Selbstschutz Trial Grudziadzu 1947 death sentence 57/5
Teofil Milke GestapoTrial Lodz 1947 death sentence
Karl Lehnert blockleader Wiener Neudorf Trial 1947 death sentence

and other names of member Selbstschutz, SS, Gestapo, Wehrmacht, Police and Gendarmerie

[Researcher]

Somethings wrong here?

Emil Hein
18.06.1895
NSDAP Mitglied in Wymyslow
death sentence 12.09.1945
executed 17.07.1945

[ansata1976]

Emil Heyn
18.06.1895
NSDAP Mitglied in Wymyslow, Selbstschutz Zacharzynie
death sentence 17.07.1945
executed 12.09.1945

[ansata1976]

Erwin Botzenhardt
13.12.1908
Oberwachtmeister Gendarmerie Lublin
Death sentence 03.12.1949 in Lublin
executed 24.06.1950

[George_W]

You should add:

Moser, Hilmar - SS-Gruppenfuehrer
Jopke, Wilfried - SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer and Gestapo officer
Laubner, Wilhelm - Gestapo
Nowack, Franz -Gestapo
Naporra, Kurt Bruno - Gestapo
Otto, Alfred - SS-Untersturmfuehrer and Gestapo

All handed over by the Russians.
They were tried in Poland but not executed.

George

[Researcher]

Hi George

Do you have date of birth and trial date for Jopke and Naporra?
I am also missing the Place and date of trial for Otto - did he die in prison?
I have Fritz Nowak (Gestapo Warsaw) 8 yrs imprisonment in 1949. Is this Franz Nowak?

Best regards
Researcher

[George_W]

Hello Researcher,

Yes, it is Fritz Nowack - my mistake.
born 30/01/1906 Breslau.

Jopke - born 15/07/1906 Ohlau - sentenced to 15 years.
Naporra - born 28/10/1905 Berlin - sentenced to 10 years.
Unfortunately i don't have the trial dates.
Alfred Otto - in 1968 he was still in Warsaw prison.
I have him as "lived in West Germany" in 1978 so he should have been released.

Best
George

[ansata1976]

Hi,

I am interested in more information about the trials (in Lublin) of:

Monika Kurzweil (in 1943, in Majdanek, where she served as a storekeeper, contributed to the death of 32 woman prisoners and children)

Fritz Frischolz (during the German occupation, as the camp warden, persecuted the prisoners in KL Dachau)
SS-Oberscharführer born 05.06.1909

Gerhard Jaeckel (during 1943 –1945, on the territory of Lublin province, as a member of NSDAP, S.A. and SS, took part in pacifications of civilians)

Rudolf Weber (in summer 1942, shot 2 Jewish girls to death in the Lublin ghetto)

[dylan]

Hallo Ansata,

Fritz Frischholz 5/10/1911 SS Oberscharf. Majdanek
Trial 3/08/1948 : 8 Years prison released 10/03/1955.

Dylan.

[ansata1976]

I am interested in more information about the trials (in Lublin) of:

Monika Kurzweil (in 1943, in Majdanek, where she served as a storekeeper, contributed to the death of 32 woman prisoners and children)

Gerhard Jaeckel (during 1943 –1945, on the territory of Lublin province, as a member of NSDAP, S.A. and SS, took part in pacifications of civilians)

Rudolf Weber (in summer 1942, shot 2 Jewish girls to death in the Lublin ghetto)

Józef Król (contributed to the shooting of 2 Jews by the German gendarmerie in Biskupice, the county of Lublin in early 1943), Trial 1949-1955????

Józef Ryters (during the occupation served in SD in Radom participating in the liquidation of the local ghetto and mass arresting)

Henryk Lenc or Heinrich Lenz(during the German occupation in Krakow and Złoczów, as the German gendarme, actively participated in round-ups and penalty expeditions as well as in the liquidation of the local ghetto and murders of several dozen Jews)

Ernst Fenke(during 1943-1945, in Staszów, and on the territory of the County of Sandomierz, as the German gendarme, murdered several dozens of Poles and Jews)

Emanuel Zurbin (from April 1940 to January 15, 1945, served for the German gendarmerie, participated in the execution of 35 Poles and was persecuting Polish civilians)

Hermann Frey (during 1940-1944, on the territory of the County of Kielce, the County of Końskie and the County of Radzymin, participated in the round-ups for Polish partisans and the shooting of Poles and Jews), 1945-1952,

Johann Holzer (during 1940 –1944, as a member of Schutzpolizei in Kielce and Ostrowiec, participated in the killing of Poles and Jews and in persecuting them)

Edward (or Eduard) Schmitt (during the German occupation, as a member of Gestapo in Chełm and Kraśnik, arrested numerous civilians; most of them later died in concentration camps, was beating and kicking the arrested)

[ansata1976]

Gerhard Jaeckel
Oberleutnant der Schutzpolizei
during 1943 –1945, on the territory of Lublin province, as a member of NSDAP, S.A. and SS, took part in pacifications of civilians
Sentenced to 10 years in prison by the district court Lublin 17.12.1947

[ansata1976]

Maximilian Zillenbiller
16.06.1910
Lower rank officer of 1 platoon 2nd police squad in the village of Bondyrz…
sentenced to death 1949 in Zamosc for participation in the mass murder of Jewish civilians and expropriating their property
fate unknown