War Crime Trials in Belgium 2

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Trial in Mons 11.08.1948

1.) Eduard Strauch (17.08.1906 in Essen)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Obersturmbannführer
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)
died 15.09.1955 in Uccle (prison)

2.) Heinrich Knappkötter (21.10.1902 in Soest)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Oberscharführer, Kriminalsekretär
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)
died 06.11.1966 in Soest

3.) Wilhelm Siegfried Müller (16.04.1903 in Emden)
Kriminalkommissar Sipo Charleroi
death sentence (reduced to 15 years imprisonment)

4.) Fritz Wohler (05.11.1906 in Berlin)
Sipo Charleroi, Kriminaloberassistent
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)

5.) Arthur Emil Ernst Sielaff (16.11.1906 in Zanow)
Sipo Charleroi, Kriminalsekretär
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)

6.) Walter Michelsen (25.07.1903 in Strausberg)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Untersturmführer; Kriminalobersekretär
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)

7.) Benno Valentin Kranich (02.05.1892 in Kapheim)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Unterscharführer
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)
died 26.05.1954 in Hamburg

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Trial in Luik 28.06.1947 – 31.07.1948

1.) Heinrich Goltz (?) SS-Hauptscharführer 15 years imprisonment
2.) Ernst Kilat (?) SS-Schütze 12 years imprisonment
3.) Franz Scziera (?)10 years imprisonment
4.) Ernst Mahl (?) 10 years imprisonment
5.) Richard Rosenke (?) 10 years imprisonment
6.) Edgar Leithold (?) 10 years imprisonment
7.) Alfred Schairer (?) 10 years imprisonment
8.) Max Zagler (?) 10 years imprisonment
9.) Kasimir Liebersbach(?) 10 years imprisonment
10.) Heinz Tremmel(?) acquittal

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Helmut Vits (26.02.1911 in Bochum)
Sipo Brussels (Ref A dep.IV), SS-Rottenführer, Kriminalangestellter
Sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in 1951

Max Hermann Boden (09.12.1891 in Bautzen)
Sipo Brussels, SS-Sturmscharführer, Kriminalsekretär
sentenced to 12 Years imprisonment (reduced to 8 years imprisonment) (Trial 05.06.1950- 14.06.1950 in Bruxelles)
died 1974

Trial ??.11.1948 in ?
Richard Winter (?) death sentence (released 1954)
Guard camp Hannover-Misburg

Trial 1950 in ?

1.) Karl Lohde (?) 10 years imprisonment
2.) Wilhelm Bothe (?)
3.) Hans Tonowski (?)
4.) Karl Rittmeyer (?)
5.) Alfred Puchmüller (?)
6.) Willy Hahn(?)
prison guards in Wolfenbüttel

additional information are requested

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Trial 1951 in ?

1.) Alexander Freiherr von Falkenhausen (29.10.1878 in Blumenthal)
General der Infanterie
sentenced 09.03.1951 to 12 years hard labour
died 31.07.1966 in Nassau (Germany)

2.) Bernhard von Claer (07.12.1888 in Berlin)
Generalleutnant
acquittal
died 29.03.1953 in Göttingen

3.) Georg Bertram (31.08.1882 in Danzig)
Generalleutnant
sentenced 09.03.1951 to 10 years hard labour
died 27.10.1953 in Bad Pyrmont

4.) Eggert Reeder (22.07.1894 in Poppenbüll)
SS-Gruppenführer
sentenced 09.03.1951 to 12 years hard labour
died 22.11.1959 in Wuppertal

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Max Boden born Bautzen

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Franz Ludwig Straub
25.02.1889 in Bergrothenfels
head of Gestapo in Belgium
Sentenced to 15 years hard labour 1950 in Bruxelles
released 1951
died 1977

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Trial in Bruxelles 13.07.1950

1.) Karl Lohde (?) 10 years imprisonment
2.) Wilhelm Bothe (?) acquittal
3.) Hans Tonowski (?)15 years imprisonment
4.) Karl Rittmeyer (?)10 years imprisonment
5.) Alfred Puchmüller 12 years hard labour
6.) Willy Hahn (?) 3 years imprisonment
prison guards in Wolfenbüttel



I am interested in more information about the men (date and place of birth and death) and their trials:

Franz Lohmann life imprisonment 1948
Erwin Kuhner 20 years 1948
Franz Schmitz death sentence 1948
Wilfried Helm Trial 1948
Bittner Gestapo Seraing 10 years changed to 20 years
Oscar Schmidt death sentence
Wilhelm Funck life imprisonment 1948

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Josef Hensinger (?) Sipo Kortrijk sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in Gent 24.10.1949

Otto Siegburg (28.07.1895 in Oberhausen) Sipo Brüssel death sentence 28.12.1949 in Brüssel (commuted to 15 years imprisonment) died 01.021952 in Bottrop

Wilhelm Krumkamp (1906 in Essen) Sipo Brüssel sentenced to 10 years imprisonment 08.02.1950 in Brüssel

Otto Ernst Koeppelmann (?) prison guard in Dortmund death sentence 22.03.1950 in Brüssel

Felix Lauterborn (1895) Sipo Antwerpen death sentence 1947 (commuted to life imprisonment 1950)

Anton Sommer (? in Köln) sentenced to 10 years hard labour 16.11.1949 in Brüssel

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Trial “Sipo/SD Dinant in Namur 13.10.1949
1.) Bernhard Schubring (?) Sipo/SD Dinant death sentence
2.) Josef Limpach (?) Sipo/SD Dinant 5 years imprisonment
3.) Wilhelm Asthalter (15.12.1910) SS-Untersturmführer Sipo/SD Dinant life imprisonment
4.) Walter Lepien (?) Sipo/SD Dinant acquittal

Trial “Sipo/SD Brüssel“ in Brüssel 1950
1.) Franz Straub (25.02.1889 in Bergrothenfels) Kriminaldirektor + SS-Sturmbannführer Sipo Brüssel (head IV) sentenced to 15 years hard labour
2.) Helmut Vits (26.02.1911 in Bochum) Kriminalangestellter + SS-Rottenführer Sipo Brüssel (Ref A IV) sentenced to 8 years imprisonment
3.) Heinrich Cuypers (29.05.1908 in Mönchengladbach) Kriminalassistent + SS-Oberscharführer Sipo Brüssel (Ref A IV) sentenced to 7 years imprisonment
4.) Walter Altenhof (?) Kriminalsekretär + SS-Untersturmführer Sipo Brüssel (Ref A IV)
5.) Emil Spaete (1900) Sipo Brüssel sentenced to 6 years imprisonment

Trial “Sipo/SD Liège/Aarlen“ in Liège 27.03.1950
1.) Eduard Strauch (17.08.1906 in Essen) head Sipo Belgium
2.) Julius Lippert (09.07.1895 in Basel) Kreiskommandant Aarlen
3.) Heinz Böttcher (?) head Sipo Aarlen
4.) Arthur Lucke (?) Kriminalsekretär Sipo Liege
5.) Rudolf Knauseder (?) SS-Scharführer Sipo Liege
6.) Werner Graber (?) SS-Scharführer Sipo Liege
7.) Karl Ostheimer (?) Feldwebel Geheime Feldpolizei

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Trial in Mons 11.08.1948
1.) Eduard Strauch (17.08.1906 in Essen)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Obersturmbannführer
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)
died 15.09.1955 in Uccle (prison)

2.) Heinrich Knappkötter (21.10.1902 in Soest)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Oberscharführer, Kriminalsekretär
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)
died 06.11.1966 in Soest

3.) Wilhelm Siegfried Müller (16.04.1903 in Emden)
Kriminalkommissar Sipo Charleroi
death sentence (reduced to 15 years imprisonment)

4.) Fritz Wohler (05.11.1906 in Berlin)
Sipo Charleroi, Kriminaloberassistent
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)

5.) Arthur Emil Ernst Sielaff (16.11.1906 in Zanow)
Sipo Charleroi, Kriminalsekretär
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)

6.) Walter Michelsen (25.07.1903 in Strausberg)
head Sipo Charleroi, SS-Untersturmführer; Kriminalobersekretär
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)

7.) Benno Valentin Kranich (02.05.1892 in Kapheim)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Unterscharführer
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment)
died 26.05.1954 in Hamburg

8.) Gustav Fortan (23.08.1901 in Wezemaal)
Sipo Charleroi, Sipo Brussel
death sentence (reduced to life imprisonment 31.01.1949)
released 23.09.1961

9.) Ernst Dungen (?)
Sipo Charleroi, Sipo Brussel
death sentence in absence

10.) Eugene Koch (?)
Sipo Charleroi
death sentence in absence

11.) Alois Bredow or Breden (?)
Sipo Charleroi
death sentence in absence

12.) Gross (?)
Sipo Charleroi, translator
death sentence in absence

13.) Alfred Gnichwitz or Glichwitz or Gruchwitz (?)
Sipo Charleroi/Gestapo Charleroi
life imprisonment

14.) Franz Sellner or Fellner (?)
Sipo Charleroi
3 years imprisonment

15.) Jan Van Damme (?)
Sipo Charleroi, SS-Vlaanderen
20 years hard labour

16.) Gustav Kumming (?)
Sipo Charleroi
20 years hard labour

17.) Rene Bracke (?)
Sipo Charleroi, translator
12 years imprisonment

18.) Karl Heinrich Mehden (02.06.1908 in Niederschelden or Siegen)
Sipo Charleroi/Gestapo Charleroi
12 years imprisonment

19.) Karl Schallos (?)
Sipo Charleroi, translator
12 years imprisonment

20.) Wilhelm Drees (?)
Sipo Charleroi/Kripo Charleroi
2 years imprisonment

21.) Giovanni Braida (?)
member SD Charleroi
sentence?

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Leo Schmandt (30.12.1904 in Berlin)
German Kapo in Breendonk
Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, released 1951 in Mechelen

Willy Alfred Giersch (14.07.1907 in Berlin)
German Kapo in Breendonk
sentenced 19.12.1946 to 15 years imprisonment in Mechelen

Walter Obler (02.02.1906 in Wien)
German Kapo in Breendonk
death sentence (executed 12.04.1947 in Mechelen)

Sally Lewin (01.01.1899 in Wongrowitz)
German Kapo in Breendonk
death sentence (executed 12.04.1947 in Mechelen)

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Gustav Schneider (08.08.1920 in Temeschburg)
Arbeitseinsatzführer in Breendonk
sentenced to 5 years imprisonment 1950

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Schmandt, Obler and Lewin sentenced 7 May 1946
Obler and Lewin executed by shooting 12 April 1947

Schneider trial in Antwerp 9 Feb 1950

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Trial 11.12.1948 in Brüssel
Richard Winter (15.03.1897 in Ferdinandstein)
Guard camp Hannover-Misburg, member Waffen-SS
death sentence (released 1954)

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Ernst Otto Köppelmann (?) prison guard in Dortmund death sentence (reduced to 15 years hard labour) 22.03.1950 in Brüssel