Trials in Russia

[ansata1976]

August Bittner
Sonderführer
14.01.1894 in Schwenz
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Rolf Burchard
Sonderführer
06.11.1907 in Riga
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Georg Robert Richard Weissig
Oberstleutnant
03.05.1896 in Wolfsau
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Hans Hermann Koch
SS-Obersturmführer
17.02.1914 in Stuttgart
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Bruno Mittmann
Polizei-Wachtmeister
22.02.1901in Hennersdorf
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Paul Willy Eick
Hauptmann
24.04.1897 in Werder
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Heinz Johann Fischer
Obergefreiter
1923 in Obersdorf
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Ernst-August Falk
Oberleutnant
19.05.1917 in Wendisch
executed 30.01.1946 in Minsk

Georg Truckenbrod
Oberst
07.11.1891 in Beikheim
executed 29.01.1946 in Kiew

Johann Scheiflinger
Unteroffizier Sicherheitspolizei Stryj
Exexcuted for war crimes 24.12.1951 in Moskau



but i need more information about the defendants of the trial in Kiew:

Hauptmann Oskar Walliser
SS-Obersturmbannführer Georg Josef Heinisch
Wilhelm W. Hellerforth
Emil Friedrich Jogschat
Emil Knoll
Willi Meyer
Hans Wilhelm Isenmann
Fritz Bekenhof
Johann Paul Lauer
August Schadel

Lieutenant General Eberhard von Kurowski (1909- 1957) Trial 1947 Sentence: ????

[ansata1976]

Theodor Adrian von Renteln (15.09. 1897 - 1946)
After the war, he was captured by the Russians, tried, and hanged for his crimes in 1946


I am interested in more information about place and date of the trial and he execution.
Maybe Russian forum friends can help.

[ansata1976]

Major Erwin Sigmund Graf von Thun-Hohenstein
born 04.04.1896 in Hietzing,Austria
Comander Abwehrgruppe 218 "Edelweiß"
executed 12.02.1946 in Sopron by the Russians

source:http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwein_von ... Hohenstein

[ansata1976]

Bisanz, Alfred (1890-1950?); aus Przemysl; Oberst; führte im Ersten Weltkrieg ukrain. Legion; 1. 3. 1940 Referent in BuF/GG; 1941 NSDAP; 1941 Leiter VoMi und UAbt. BuF/GDG; Leiter Gali- zischer Wehrausschuß; nach dem Krieg in Salzburg
1940 Referent in BuF/GG; 1941 NSDAP; 1941 Leiter VoMi und UAbt.
BuF/GDG; Leiter Gali- zischer Wehrausschuß; nach dem Krieg in Salzburg von Ukrainern versteckt; 1946 angeblich im sowjet. Sektor Wiens bei Schwarzmarktgeschäften verhaftet; angeblich in Lemberg oder Moskau nach Schauprozeß 1950 erschossen.


Alfred Brandt
18.05.1895 in Walsee, Kreis Gnesen
war ein deutscher Landwirt und Landrat zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Im deutsch besetzten Polen war Brandt als Kreishauptmann tätig.
Brandt soll 1945 bei Stolp durch Angehörige der Roten Armee erschossen worden sein.

[trekker]

Hello!

I am new to this forum and I wonder if you could help me find some information I have been searching for.

I am interested in Josef Kouba who was a Gestapo leader in Pettau in Unter Steiermark (Ptuj in Štajerska, part of Slovenia today) in 1942. I have just found a post by ansata1976 posted on 07 May 2010 stating that
Josef Kouba 16.03.1911 11.11.1946
was executed by Russians.
It might well be the same person. Is there any more information available about him?

With best regards

[ansata1976]

Even i am interested in more information(Position/Rank/Crime) about:


List of Austrians executed by Russians 1945-1947

1. Hermann Aken-Quesar von 21.09.1894 30.07.1945
2. Johann Augl 19.12.1894 03.10.1945
3. Ernst Bardy 12.03.1903 in Hermannstadt 30.10.1945
4. Georg Binder 02.07.1911 13.08.1945
5. Rupert Binder 01.08.1901 11.11.1946
6. Franz Böckl 1897 11.05.1947
7. Rudolf Böhm 18.04.1900 15.10.1945
8. Josef Brunner 22.08.1895 28.03.1946
9. Karl Buchner 23.12.1906 06.07.1946
10. Josef Cerjak 09.01.1898 11.11.1945
11. Leopold Czeck 10.11.1892 10.05.1946
12. Walter Dultinger 14.03.1898 01.08.1945
13. Johann Eigemann 09.07.1903 06.07.1946
14. Georg Elsinger 1925 17.07.1945
15. Anton Erhardt 20.05.1898 1945
16. Rudolf Faffelberger 28.08.1910 02.07.1945
17. Alois Farnleitner 23.06.1888 15.10.1945
18. Johann Frank 06.08.1893 16.09.1945
19. Emanuel Friedfeld (Bogner) 1920 01.07.1945
20. Ernst Friedl 31.03.1907 06.07.1946
21. Erich Ignaz Gattinger (Gattringer) 25.04.1903 03.10.1945
22. Karl Grabmüller 15.07.1902 06.06.1946
23. Karl Grasser (Graser) 11.09.1891 06.06.1946
24. Rudolf Grasser 22.08.1911 30.09.1946
25. Franz Hanke 22.12.1885 18.06.1946
26. Hans Helch 11.09.1895 11.11.1946
27. Stefan Hofko 26.12.1891 13.08.1945
28. Josef Holzhaider 06.08.1896 03.10.1945
29. Karl Humperstätter 16.05.1919 11.11.1947
30. Eva Illing 11.11.1946
31. Stefan Jankowitsch (Jankuwitsch) 14.11.1908 11.11.1947
32. Franz Kammerhofer 1892 23.08.1945
33. Josef Karlinger 02.10.1886 03.10.1945
34. Eugen Kauba 25.08.1900 01.01.1946
35. Andreas Knapp 22.01.1895 13.06.1945
36. Josef Königstetter 07.10.1911 11.11.1946 Trial in Sopron
37. Josef Körner 13.02.1906 06.07.1946
38. Josef Kouba 16.03.1911 11.11.1946
39. Karl Koukal 12.07.1923 11.11.1946
40. Adolf Krolik 1892 11.11.1947
41. Otto Küblböck 23.02.1895 1945
42. Rudolf Mooslechner 05.04.1890 05.09.1945
43. Franz Olweiner 30.09.1917 11.11.1945
44. Karl Ortner 03.10.1898 29.06.1946
45. Karl Peschek 1902 30.05.1945
46. Alois Pilz 10.05.1895 03.10.1945
47. Franz Plöchl 21.03.1896 03.10.1945
48. Johann Rabold 09.09.1899 11.11.1945
49. Anton Reiter 14.05.1900 1945
50. Maximilian Retschnig 29.06.1911 11.11.1945
51. Josef Rotter (Eisenmenger) 1913 01.07.1945
52. Johann Sallmaier 26.06.1911 11.11.1946 Trial in Sopron
53. Hugo Schäfer 16.11.1879 12.11.
54. Johann Schittl 16.06.1906 17.12.1947
55. Richard Schmidt 1910 11.11.1945
56. Anton Schober 28.05.1890 11.09.1945
57. Karl Schwarzenbacher 1909 11.11.1946
58. Franz Stanek 1900 08.05.1946
59. Herbert Staudigl 06.01.1889 11.11.1945
60. Heinrich Steinacker 05.01.1894 08.08.1945
61. Johann Steinacker 11.02.1901 08.08.1945
62. Otto (Hans Otto) Steinacker 02.09.1929 08.08.1945
63. Ernst Stelzek 10.05.1946
64. Felix Strohmaier 18.11.1898 13.08.1945
65. Erwin Thun-Hohenstein 04.04.1896 12.02.1946
66. Usirer 01.04.1945
67. Josef Uxa 19.09.1898 13.08.1945
68. Emil Weidenhof (Weidendorf) 1914 01.07.1945
69. Wilhelm Winkelbauer 01.08.1893 13.08.1945
70. Walter Wolf 09.08.1928 24.05.1946
71. Ferdinand Zahradnik 03.04.1882 10.05.1946
72. Franz Zeltner 11.01.1911 30.07.1946
73. Franz Zwickl 05.10.1928 24.05.1946
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[Waldbruder]

@Trekker:

Do you mean Kriminalsekretaer Josef Kouba (1908-2001)? From 9.5. 1941-5.12 1944 in Ptuj?
Chief of the office in Ptuj (Leiter Sipo Pettau)?

Or do you mean Josef Kouba (1911-1946)?

Why are you interested in Josef Kouba?

with friendly regards

[trekker]

@Trekker:

Do you mean Kriminalsekretaer Josef Kouba (1908-2001)? From 9.5. 1941-5.12 1944 in Ptuj?
Chief of the office in Ptuj (Leiter Sipo Pettau)?

Or do you mean Josef Kouba (1911-1946)?

Why are you interested in Josef Kouba?

with friendly regards

Thank you very much for your reply, Waldbruder.

I'm no expert on the topics of this forum. I've been visiting it for some time for curiosity and I've been impressed by amount of data and knowledge obtained by the members.

My focus is actually on my ancestors. I am trying to connect each of my ancestors to historical events of his time and to ordinary people who influenced his life but are not mentioned by history books because their role was »minor«.

So, one of my grandfathers was arrested in 1942 and was held in prison in Ptuj before being shot in Maribor. And I wondered how the war had ended for people who were in touch with him. I found in a slovene newspaper mentioned the memories of a woman who was held in Ptuj prison in 1941/1942 and was interrogated at the gestapo headquarters »by chief of the Ptuj branch Josef Kouba himself.« So I've got his name. My next step was Axis History Forum. And as I can understand from your reply Josef Kouba survived the war. Where did he serve after 5.12.1944? Was he an Austrian? Is there anything else known and available about him? Or about the Ptuj Sipo office?

And their is another person of my interest. It was remembered by my aunt being a child at the time that the chief of Gestapo office in Polstrau – Središče ob Dravi was Hunesch. Now, I cannot be sure if the name was correctly remembered. Is there any information available about the Sipo office in Polstrau – Središče ob Dravi?

I will be grateful for any piece of information shared.

Regards

[Waldbruder]

@trekker

you have PM

[ansata1976]

I am interested in more information about a trial:

13.November 1945 Sowjetisches Tribunal (against staff of Prison Roter Ochse in Halle)
18 defendants 12 death sentence 6 imprisonment

I have only this additional information:

1.) Max Schaschner (1889-1945 ) Hauptwachtmeister death sentence executed 07.12.1945

2.) Kurt Schellknecht (1892-1946) Wachtmeister

3.) Bruno Reißner (1887-1945) Direktor des halleschen Zuchthauses Roter Ochse executed 07.12.1945

4.) Kurt Sieber (1891-1945) Oberregierungsrat,Direktor of the Prison Roter Ochse in Halle executed 07.12.1945

5.) Fritz Friedrich (1899-1945) Oberwachtmeister executed 07.12.1945

6.) Rudolf Risse (1903-1945) executed 07.12.1945

7.) Rudolf Gustav Sonntag 10 years
8.) Otto Friedrich Loofs 10 years
9.) Karl Napiralla 10 years
10.) Rudolf Bernhard Ebel 7 year
11.) Hermann Julius Fehse 10 years
12.) Paul Otto Ehrig 10 years
.
.
.

I am not sure what happened with 2.) but he belonged to the Prison Roter Ochse. Maybe they were sentenced at this trial. Who were the other defendants????

[ansata1976]

Trial 09.04.1946 in Minsk
Ernst Friedl Police and SD Minsk Executed 06.07.1946 in Minsk
Johann Eigemann Police and SD Minsk Executed 06.07.1946 in Minsk
Karl Buchner Police and SD Minsk Executed 06.07.1946 in Minsk
Josef Ruiss Police and SD Minsk Executed 06.07.1946 in Minsk
Josef Körner Police and SD Minsk Executed 06.07.1946 in Minsk

[Researcher]

Re the List of Austrians executed by Russians 1945-1947

I'm guessing these are not all war criminals.

For example : Eva Illing (no. 30) was a Viennese woman who lured a Russian major to her apartment
and murdered him in October 1945. She was executed by firing squad (source = The Canberra Times newspaper)

[ansata1976]

Trial in Vitebsk:

Defendants:

Fritz Gollwitzer
27.04.1889 in Bullenheim
General der Infanterie - Kommandant LIII.-Armee-Korps
released 05.10.1955
died 25.03.1977 in Amberg

Oberst Hans Schmidt –Stabschef des LIII.-Armee-Korps

Alfons Hitter
04.06.1892 in Hochstat
Generalleutnant– Kommandant der 206.Infanterie-Division
released 05.10.1955
died 11.03.1968 in Bonn

Generalmajor Klaus Müller-Bülow 1892 – Kommandant der 246.Infanterie-Division died 1954

Oberst Hans Dilmannn – Kommandant Kriegsgefangenenlager Vitebsk

all sentenced to 25 years hard labour



High officers sentenced 1949 to 25 years hard labour:

Generalleutnant Werner von Bercken
08.02.1897 in Oppeln
Kommandeur der 558. Volks-Grenadier-Division
released 1955
died 29.02.1976 in Röttgen

Hermann Boettcher

Generalmajor Martin Bieber
10.11.1900 in Tabarz
Kommandeur der 271. Volks-Grenadier-Division
released 1955
died 19.10.1974 in Düsseldorf

Generalleutnant Gottfried Weber
31.01.1899 in Breslau
Kommandeur Generalkommando XVI. Armeekorps
released 1955
died 16. 08.1958 in Villach

Generalmajor Rolf Wuthmann
26.08.1893 in Kassel
released 1955 died 20.10.1977 in Minden

Generalmajor Rudolf Demme
03.06.1894 in Mühlhausen
Kommandeur der 132. Infanterie-Division
released 06.10.1955
died 05.01.1975 in Meckenheim-Merl

Generalleutnant Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin
06.11.1890 in Stettin
died 01.04.1952 in Russia

Wilhelm Kunze

Friedrich-Wilhelm Liegmann

Generalmajor Friedrich Niehuus
06.02.1898 in Mühlheim
died 23.11.1951in Woikowo

Generalmajor Rudolf Noack
29.08.1890 in Leipzig
Kommandeur 7. Infanterie-Division
died 30.07.1954 in Woikowo

Generalmajor Erich Preu
23.08.1884 in Römerstad
released 01.1954
died 15. März 1967 in Bietigheim

Generalmajor Josef Rauch
29.02.1902
Kommandeur 18. Panzergrenadier-Division
died 1984

Generalleutnant Karl Rodenburg
17.05.1894 in Geestemünde
Kommandeur der 76. Infanterie-Division
released 05.10.1955
died 05.11.1992 in Greven

Generalmajor Wilhelm Richard Runge
23.05.1888 in Torgau
died 1954 in a Russian POW Camp at Wolkowo

General der Flieger Veit Fischer
18.05.1890 in Landshut
Befehlshaber vom Luftgau VIII
released 1955
died 30.10.1966 in Prien

Generalmajor Leopold Graf Fugger von Babenhausen
18.07.1893
died 1966

Generalleutnant Otto Schwarz
01.06.1897 in Baiersröderhof
Kommandeur der 376. Infanterie-Division
released 12.10.1955
died 22.05.1960

Generalmajor Rolf Scherenberg
27.05.1897 in Berlin
Kommandeur der 371. Infanterie-Division
released 05.10.1955
died 10.06.1961 in Berlin

Generalmajor Fritz Schönfelder
17.01.1889 in Ebersbach
died 06.06.1953 in Lager Krasnopolje


High officers sentenced 1950 to 25 years hard labour:

Generalmajor Oskar Audörsch
27.02.1898 Rastenburg

Otto Weber

Generalleutnant Gustav Siess
11.12.1883 in Hamburg
Chef der 3. Abt. im Nachschub-amt des General-quartiermeisters / Generalstab der Luftwaffe

Generalmajor Otto Adolf Sydow
01.02.1896 Rosemarsow
Kommandeur der 1. Flak- Division in Berlin

Karl-Richard Kossmann
Chef des Stabes des VII. Armeekorps

Generalleutnant Angelo Müller
04.06.1892
Kommandant Artillerie-Regiment 31

Richard Reimann

Hermann Haehnle

Generalmajor Karl-Wilhelm Specht
22.05.1894 in Herdecke
died 03.12.1953 in Woikowo


Trial Unknown Place:

Walter Kurt 6.Infanterie-Division death sentence
Heinrich Ohligs 6.Infanterie-Division death sentence
and
5 other defendants death sentence

I need more information about this trial and the sentenced men.

[ansata1976]

SS-Obersturmführer Walter Johann Gross Trial Minsk 27.12.1949 Sentenced to 25 years hard labour

[ansata1976]

Trial Gomel 13-20 December 1947

Generalleutnant Eberhard von Kurowski
10.09.1895
Stabschef 2.Panzer-Armee und Kommandant der 110.Infanterie-Division
released 1955
died 11.09.1957 in Stanzach

Generalleutnant Arthur Kullmer
27.08.1896 in Großbockenheim
Kommandant des XLIII.Armee-Korps und Kommandant der 296.Infanterie-Division
died 28.03.1953 in Asbest im Ural

Generalmajor Günther Klammt
09.05.1898 in Löwenberg
Kommandant der 6. /260.Infanterie-Division
released 06.10.1955
died 16.05.1971 in Lübeck

Generalmajor Hans-Ernst Kohlsdorfer
Kommandant des 254.Infanterie-Regimentes der 110.Infanterie-Division
released 06. 10.1955
died 25.07.1969 in Hennef

Oberstleutnant Ernst Jensen – Kommandant des 120.Artillerie-Regimentes der 110.Infanterie-Division