Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by Panzergrenadier2967 » 17 Apr 2018, 16:10

One querstion: how many Germans were killed by tribunals after the war?

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by Puck » 17 Apr 2018, 23:28

About Wilhelm Wirker some more information
member SS since 28.03.1933

08.1939 - 02.1940 Wehrmacht (schwere Artillerie 607)
02.1940 - 01.1943 driver at Regierungspräsidium Chemnitz (own testimony)
in 09.1942 assigned to 84.SS-Standarte (Leoben/Austria), commanded to SS-Abschnitt II (Dresden), possibly Sonderkommando R as driver
01.1943 - 11.1943 KL Sachsenhausen, guard and Blockführer
11.1943 - 09.1944 KL Vaivara (driver ?)
10.1944 - 12.1944 KL Gross-Rosen
12.1944 - 03.1945 head Außenlager Kamenz (KL Gross-Rosen)
03.1945 Evacuation AL Kamenz to KL Dachau
29.08.1945 arrested in Chemnitz, then disappeared without trace

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by ansata1976 » 25 Apr 2018, 20:39

I am interested in more information about:

Georg Runge
born ?? in ??
Deputy commander KZ Sonnenburg
He was sentenced to death and executed in 1946 for his responsibility for a massacre by a Soviet military court in Rathenow 1946
Executed ?? in ???

Wilhelm Strauß
(?)
KZ Majdanek
Leiter des Judenlagers
executed ?? in ??

Georg Treger
??.??.1912
staff KZ Mauthausen
sentenced to death 23.05.1947 by a SMT in Zwickau (commuted to life)
released ??

Margot Schridde
(?)
sentenced to life imprisonment 1947
released 1956

Heinrich Heidt
(?)
1942 – 1945 in Ravensbrück (since 1944 Lagerältester)
sentenced to death 06.12.1945 by a SMT (commuted to 10 years imprisonment)
since 19.08.1946 in Special cam in Torgau
sentenced to death 28.01.1947 by SMT (but not carried out)
died 21.02.1952 in prison

Walter Schwarze
(?)
Feb 1941 – Oct 1943 Blockführer, Rapportführer + Arbeitseinsatzführer im KZ Gross Rosen
sentenced to life imprisonment 10.06.1948 by the SMT der Garnison Berlin

Treske (staff Gross Rosen) sentenced by a SMT

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by Puck » 25 Apr 2018, 21:13

Treske might be Richard Treske SS-Hauptscharführer, Kriminalsekretär, KL Gross-Rosen/Politische Abteilung

Margot Schridde was a kapo in Außenlager Barth (KL Ravensbrück) since 1944

Walter Schwarze born 26.03.1909 in Leipzig, died 19.01.1959 in Essen, SS-Rottenführer in KL Gross-Rosen,

Georg Runge born 1891 in Vietz, Oberinspektor, was deputy director of prison Sonnenburg since 1938, the KL was closed in april 1934

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by ansata1976 » 25 Apr 2018, 21:46

What is the date of birth and place of birth of:

Erika Knippel
Hertha Dähn
Ilse Maaß
Käte Engel
Margot Kaiser
Richard Treske
Wilhelm Strauß

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by ansata1976 » 19 May 2018, 03:39

Executed in Berlin by Russian authorities:
00.05.1945 Paul Elbers (08.07.1892 in Rees) Kriminalinspektor, SS-Obersturmführer, Gestapo Berlin
00.05.1945 Karl Fetschrien (20.12.1897 in Gilgenburg) Kriminalobersekretär,SS-Sturmscharführer, Gestapo Berlin
08.06.1945 Karl Heller (24.02.1890 in Eisenach) Kriminalsekretär, Gestapo Berlin (Abteilung II A 1)
09.08.1945 Rudolf Ramm (23.11.1887 in Dortmund-Löttringhausen) Oberbürgermeister von Pirmasens
17.08.1945 Emil Radloff (14.2.1890 in Ludwigshorst) Kriminaloberkommissar, Gestapo Berlin (II A 4), RSHA
07.09.1945 Ernst Jung (01.07.1890 in Plötzensee) Polizeirat, SS-Untersturmführer, Stapo Berlin + Saarbrücken, Kripo Metz
07.09.1945 Wilhelm-Otto Scheer (09.07.1907 in Bensberg) Kreisleiter of NSDAP in Berlin-Steglitz
12.11.1945 Ernst Rambow (08.04.1887 in Pampow) member Gestapo Berlin
12.11.1945 Dr. Otto Soehring (18.01.1872 in Berlin) Legationsrat im Auswärtigen Amt
06.12.1945 Erich Naehler (29.06.1893 in Berlin) SS-Hauptsturmführer im RSHA (Amt VI C1 + VI F 3)
06.12.1945 Alfred Saalwächter (10.1.1883 in Neusalz an der Oder) Generaladmiral
11.12.1945 Ernst Harjes (26.11.1899 in Landeshut) Kriminalobersekretär, Stapo Berlin
11.12.1945 Walther Reinhardt (21.12.1887 in Frankfurt/Main) Abwehr-Offizier, Verbindungsoffizier zum Auswärtigen Amt
17.12.1945 Gerhard Mertel (19.04.1912 in Potsdam)
25.12.1945 Georg Rindfleisch (28.07.1893 in Osielsk)
25.12.1945 Erich Schattschneider (14.04.1892 in Joachimsdorf) Unterwachtmeister, policeman in Berlin
28.12.1945 Walter Lustig (19.08.1891 in Ratibor) Direktor des Jüdischen Krankenhauses (Iranischen Straße in Berlin)
17.01.1946 Otto Drescher (24.09.1876 in Pustopedzie) ), Kriminalrat a. D., Kriminalobersekretär in Düsseldorf
17.01.1946 Karl Hasenbein (27.03.1889 in Budwethen)
17.01.1946 Dorothea Lenning (20.04.1891 in Stargard) Agentin der Abwehr
17.01.1946 Walter Roloff (01.09.1897 in Berlin)
18.01.1946 Willi Klose (09.6.1902 in Berlin)
26.01.1946 Adolf-Alphons Lewek (18.03.1901 in Posen) „Greifer“ Stapo Berlin
26.01.1946 Leopold Stargardter (02.09.1889 in Zempelburg) „Greifer“ Stapo Berlin
31.01.1946 Wilhelm Nobelmann (27.10.1896 in Torgelow) Kriminalobersekretär, RSHA (Referat IV C 4 + Referat IV A 5)
21.02.1946 Kurt Jurkscheit (06.07.1909 in Königsberg) Ortsgruppenleiter der NSDAP in Berlin
24.02.1946 Bernhard Kühl (25.05.1886 in Memel) Generalleutnant der Luftwaffe (Flak)
21.03.1946 Hans Nietschke (13.08.1914 in Berlin) member Wehrmacht
25.03.1946 Dr Claus Ungewitter (25.04.1890 in Gmunden) Reichsbeauftragter der Reichsstelle der chemischen Industrie
03.04.1946 Carl Baron von Bagge af Boo (19.10.1887 in Mitau)
03.04.1946 Herbert Hahn (05.02.1907 in Berlin)
03.04.1946 Otto Wernike (1890 in Landsberg) Hauptmann in der Wehrmacht
10.05.1946 Rudolf Skuin ( 24.08.1898 in Riga)
21.06.1946 Wilhelm Leenen (13.04.1890 in Krefeld) Werkmeister im Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Berlin-Grunewald
11.09.1946 Kurt Feitsch (11.09.1916 in Berlin) Mitarbeiter des Stabs des Horst-Wessel-Kreises der NSDAP (Gau Berlin)
07.10.1946 Ewald von Demandowsky (21.10.1906 in Berlin) Reichsfilmdramaturg und Produktionschef der Tobis
14.10.1946 Walter von Kielpinski (29.04.1909 in Chemnitz) SS-Obersturmbannführer, SD-Hauptamt
14.10.1946 Wilhelm Lehmann (28.03.1922 in Teetz) Wachmann und Hundeführer in Sachsenhausen
18.10.1946 Johannes Keller (?) member Landesschützenbataillons 307
24.10.1946 Peter-Carsten Lassen (30.08.1888 in Högel) Kommandeur des Kriegsgefangenen-Bau-und-Arbeitsbataillons 429 K
26.12.1946 Horst Schulz (26.06.1929 in Berlin) member Volkssturm
07.01.1947 Dr Ernst Frowein (25.08.1916 in Iserlohn) SS-Hauptsturmführer, doctor in Sachsenhausen
07.01.1947 Karl Horst (20.08.1903 in Neumünster) SS-Unterscharführer in Dachau + Sachsenhausen
12.02.1947 Erich Prengemann (16.08.1911 in Stettin) SS-Unterscharführer in Sachsenhausen
12.02.1947 Siegfried Schubert (29.07.1910 in Krefeld) SS-Rottenführer in Sachsenhausen
17.02.1947 Georg Howe (17.08.1906 in Stralau) Wachmann in Sachsenhausen
19.02.1947 Alfred Driemel (24.08.1907 in Küstrin) SS-Obersturmführer in Sachsenhausen
20.03.1947 Dr Ludwig Ehrsam (31.07.1910 in Meiningen) SS-Obersturmführer + doctor in Sachsenhausen + Buchenwald


unknown execution date:
Kurt Bornemann (?) Vizeadmiral der deutschen Marine
Wilhelm Bisse (09.06.1881 in Reinbek)
Rudolf Würsik (11.02.1889 in Kohlfurt) Reichsbahn-Amtmann


What was the fate of:

Gustav Linke
21.08.1900
member Gestapo Berlin
sentenced to ???? 25.02.1946 in Berlin by the Military Tribunal of garrison of Berlin

Werner Lehmann
18.01.1911
member Gestapo Berlin
sentenced to ???? 25.02.1946 in Berlin by the Military Tribunal of garrison of Berlin

What was the date of birth of:
Edmund Johann Becker
born ????
Agent der deutschen Kriminalpolizei
Executed 09.04.1945

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by steve248 » 19 May 2018, 12:42

Among the list of those executed (above):
Paul Elbers died 1 Feb 1945, Niederschönhausen (BAL, B162/16669)
Ernst Jung - I think some of the details were taken from another Ernst Jung (born 19 Dec 1890, Suhl, SS No. 356818; commissioned SS-Ustuf on 1 June 1940 who did serve in Saarbrücken and Metz); the Ernst Jung above has a discrepancy between his police rank (Polizeirat) and his SS-rank of SS-Ustuf. Polizeirat were usually SS-Stubaf.
ERnst Harjes - I have a birth date of 26 Nov 1896 (official document)

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Post by George_W » 19 May 2018, 14:12

As far i know Walter von Kielpinski served in Einsatzgruppe IV in Poland in 1939 and after that he was shortly (few months, probably until June 1940) assigned to KdS Warschau (Abt. SD).

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by ansata1976 » 19 May 2018, 17:16

Sorry I used this source:
Jung-page0001.jpg
source: Todesurteile sowjetischer Militärtribunale gegen Deutsche
(1944–1947)
Eine historisch-biographische Studie
Herausgegeben von Andreas Weigelt,
Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt
und Mike Schmeitzner
Kielpinski-page0001.jpg

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Post by George_W » 19 May 2018, 18:07

Thanks for the additional info about this man, the source you gave confirms my informations.

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Post by ansata1976 » 19 May 2018, 19:07

What was the fate of:

Gustav Linke
21.08.1900
member Gestapo Berlin
sentenced to ???? 25.02.1946 in Berlin by the Military Tribunal of garrison of Berlin

Werner Lehmann
18.01.1911
member Gestapo Berlin
sentenced to ???? 25.02.1946 in Berlin by the Military Tribunal of garrison of Berlin

What was the date of birth of:
Edmund Johann Becker
born ????
Agent der deutschen Kriminalpolizei
Executed 09.04.1945

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Re: Soviet Military Tribunals in Germany 1945-47

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Post by ansata1976 » 19 May 2018, 20:29

Franz Siebenhühner
28.12.1893 in Apolda
Kriminalobersekretär + SS-Untersturmführer,Gestapo Berlin (E 3 b),
Gestapo Kattowitz (in Karwin)
arrested 28.04.1945 in Birkenwerder
sentenced to death 04.07.1945
executed 01.10.1945 in Frankfurt/Oder
When was Franz Siebenhühner in Kattowitz (Karwin) ? In which Abteilung?

Paul Stenzel
13.11.1909 in Wensiorry
Polizei-Wachtmeister,
Januay 1941 SD Krakau
Kriminalassistent-Anwärter beim Grenzpolizeikommissariat Jaslo
Kriminalassistent bei der Gestapoleitstelle Berlin.
Arrested May 1945 in Berlin
death sentence by a SMT (transferred then to Brest)
When was Stenzel in Jaslo? What was his fate?

Erich Strauch
1907 in Oderberg (Brandenburg)
since 1928 policeman
since 1937 member NSDAP
since 1940 member Gestapo
since 1942 in area Witebsk
since 09.1943 in Gestapo in Germany
death sentence 19.11.1945 in Witebsk
executed in Witebsk.
What was the date of birth of Erich Strauch? In which place was he a member of the Gestapo? When was he executed?

Karl Mühl
15.11.1911 in Rudersdorf
Kriminalassistent, Gestapoleitstelle Reichenberg (in Trautenau)
arrested 19.05.1945 in Rudersdorf
sentenced to death 12.06.1945
executed
When was he executed?

Hugo Domke
29.03.1906 in Ottendorf
Kriminalpolizei-Oberassistent + SS-Unterscharführer in Gestapo Reichenberg (in Trautenau)
arrested 23.05.1945 in Weckersdorf
sentenced to death 12.06.1945
executed
When was he executed?

August Rottau
17.04.1890 in Dombrowka
Polizeirat + SS-Hauptsturmführer
Leiter der Abteilung IV 6 in der Gestapoleitstelle Berlin
SS-Hauptamt Abteilung IV C 2 b (Schutzhaftangelegenheiten), Abteilung IV 1 a-W
arrested 09.05.1945 in Berlin
sentenced to death by a SMT in Berlin 1945
What was his fate?

Gustav Krüger
29.01.1890 in Modgarben
SS-Hauptsturmführer + Kriminalrat
Sachgebietsleiter IV 5 c der Gestapoleitstelle Berlin,
arrested 30.05.1945 in Berlin-Friedenau festgenommen
sentenced to death 18.07.1946
executed 01.12.1946

Gustav Hoffmann
31.08.1902 in Tiflis
since 1930 member NSDAP + SA
SS-Untersturmführern
since 1937 Kriminalsekretär Gestapo Berlin
translator (russian)
19.09.1939 until 01.07.1941 SD in Krakau
15.4.1940 - 10.6.1940 in Przemysl
since 01.07.1941 Einsatzkommando der Gestapo in Lemberg/Lwow,
September 1944 until January 1945 Gestapo Tarnow
sentenced to death 01.10.1946 in Krim
What was his fate?

Trial 21.06.1945 in Moscow
1.) Willi Abendschön (28.07.1905 in Mannheim)
SS-Sturmscharführer, Kriminalobersekretär Gestapo Prag
death sentence (executed 21.09.1946)

2.) Otto Gall (09.11.1902 in Posen)
SS-Hauptscharführer, Kriminalobersekretär Gestapo Prag
death sentence (executed 21.09.1946)

3.) Werner Drees (23.12.1913 in Unna)
Kriminalangestellter Gestapo Prag Referat II P
death sentence (executed 21.09.1946)

Trial 24.09.1945 in Moscow
1.) Wilhelm Leimer (25.07.1912 in Neuwied)
SS-Hauptsturmführer, Kriminalkommissar Gestapo Prag
death sentence (executed 12.10.1945)

Where this the only men from Gestapo Prague sentenced by the Russians?
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Post by George_W » 19 May 2018, 21:16

I have:

Siebenhühner, SS-Ustuf. and Kriminalsekretär (in late 1939 and early 1940, later he apparently might have been promoted to Kriminalobersekretär), Leiter of AdS Karwina between November 1939 and February 1940 (under Stapo Kattowitz, later reorganised into Nebendienststelle Karwina subordinate to Aussendienststelle Teschen and later, in the half of 1940, eventually dissolved).

Paul Stenzel, SS-Oberscharführer, member of Grenzpolizeiposten Krosno (under Grenzpolizeikommissariat Jasło, under KdS Krakau), transferred to Krosno on 16/01/1941 from Grenzpolizeischule Pretzsch. He remained in Krosno until February 1944. Fate unknown to me.

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Post by George_W » 19 May 2018, 23:09

Regarding Leimer: i've red somewhere that he was not executed but worked for the KGB after the war.

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Post by steve248 » 20 May 2018, 08:04

Sept 1939 SS-Ustuf KS Siebenhüner noted with the newly set-up Stapo Nebenstelle Doly (Karwinie) as Leiter
source: Biuletyn XVII, Glowney Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce, pp 123-124

I think Leimer working for the Russians was Cold War propaganda despite this source:
KK Willy Leimer of the Gestapo Prague was a “Communist expert” and a key Soviet spy at the same time; promoted NKVD Colonel after the war.
source: Josef Frolik, The Frolik Defection, p. 20
[if he was a "Communist expert" why did the communists need him?)

Willy Leimer “durch AG Moosburg für tot erklärt – UR II 19/1949”
source: BAL, B162/8352, p. 27

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