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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Puck » 17 Feb 2019, 19:45

not found yet:

Hauptmann Walter Behne (born 19.03.1888 in Hamburg),
NSDAP-member since 01.12.1931, SA-Obertruppführer
1933-1945 schools inspector in Hamburg
15.06.1940..01.04.1942 Wehrmacht
Adjudant Ortskommandantur 847 (since 04.1941 in Sabac, before Arras/France)
10.05.1946 extradicted from britisch zone
??.??.1947 trial in Belgrad (?) - death sentence
09.03.1947 executed in Belgrad (execution of 5 farmers in 08.1941, execution of 5 hostages, execution of 300 serbians in 10.1941)

There must have been other defendants..
Correct date of trial is not known to me...

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source added
https://www.hamburg.de/clp/dabeigewesen ... ?BIOID=252

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 17 Feb 2019, 21:09

http://www.smrtnakazna.rs/en-gb/Osudjenik.aspx?id=4433

Is this source helpful for you?

Maybe he was sentenced and executed at the same day (same like in Czech Rep. example: https://marjorie-wiki.de/wiki/Franz_Radif).


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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 18 Feb 2019, 14:39

Do you have information about:

Friedrich Paul Helmmann 1904 Major death sentence 17.07.1948 in Kragujevac executed 1948

Friedrich Becker 1898 Oberst death sentence 13.09.1949 in Belgrade executed 02.12.1949 in Sremska Mitrovica

Fritz Zimmermann 1912 death sentence 26.09.1949 in Belgrade executed 02.12.1949 in Sremska Mitrovica

Lorenz Filtzinger 1922 Leutnant death sentence 08.10.1949 in Belgrade (Vršac) executed 1950

Herbert Piske 1906 Leutnant, commander of the town in Jagodina and Cuprija death sentence 29.08.1947 in Belgrade executed 1947

Friedrich Fiedler (?) death sentence 20.11.1948 in Rijeka

Otto Auer (?) executed 01.11.1949 in Belgrade

Dr Fritz Lang (?) Hauptmann death sentence 16.09.1949 in Belgrade executed 1949

Hans Irmer 1923 Corporal death sentence 29.08.1947 in Belgrade executed 1947

Johann Tirof 1903 Hauptmann der Gendarmerie death sentence 08.02.1949 in Novi Sad executed 1949

Joseph Klein 1917 Lieutenant death sentence 18.12.1948 in Novi Sad executed 1949

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by stefan2222 » 19 Feb 2019, 15:50

Dear ansata1976 or anyone,

i need something about Major Paul König, 1st btl 704 ID,in 1941 and after. The division were in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia until 1943, and after that they moved to Greece.

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Puck » 19 Feb 2019, 16:18

ansata1976 wrote:
17 Feb 2019, 21:09
http://www.smrtnakazna.rs/en-gb/Osudjenik.aspx?id=4433
Is this source helpful for you?
Yes, it's a confirmation that it's the same man.

But I wonder about the execution date 09.03.1947 when the confirmation was on 04.04.1947 - in most of the cases in Yugoslavia had been a few weeks between sentence and probable execution.

Regards Puck

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 27 Jul 2019, 20:58

I am interested in more information about

SS-Obersturmführer Wilhelm Drecoll (09.03.1910 in Malchin) Gestapo commander in Jagodina extradited after the war to Yugoslavia
I think he was as well head of Sipo in Lillehammer

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by George_W » 27 Jul 2019, 22:53

Sipo man Drecoll was mentioned at least two times in BBL:

1944, Wilhelm Drecoll beim IdS Stettin promoted to SS-Ostuf., SS nr 290 497 [BBL 21/1944]

1943, KK z. Pr. Drecoll beim Stapo Schwerin promoted KK [BBL 49/1943].

George

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by steve248 » 28 Jul 2019, 15:53

WILHELM Johannes Drecoll
9 March 1910, Hamburg
was the SS-Ustuf (later SS-Ostuf) at BdS Belgrade, Stapo Schwerin, then Lillehammer (KdS Narvik).
An investigation was instigated in the 1970s for "Verdachts der Beteiligung an der Inhaftierung, Deportation und Totung [umlauts not working...] von serbischen Zivilisten und Partisanen sowie Niederbrennung von Doerfern 1944, als Leiter der Aussenstellen Leskovac und Jagodina".
Did not help Drecoll - he died in Hamburg on 22 July 1972

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 30 Sep 2019, 13:42

Trial 09.03.1947 in Belgrade

1.) Walter Behne (19.03.1888 in Hamburg) death sentence (executed 09.03.1947 in Belgrade)
(Hauptmann, Adjudant Ortskommandantur 847 in Sabac)

2.) Adolf Josten (13.02.1892 in Rheydt) death sentence (executed 10.04.1947 in Belgrade)
(Polizei-Major Kommandeur Polizeibataillon 64)

3.) Georg Johann Friedrich Kiessel (31.10.1907 in Nürnberg) death sentence (executed 30.12.1950 in Belgrade)
(SS-Sturmbannführer, Chief of Military Administration for Serbia)

4.) Harald Turner (08.10.1891 in Leun an der Lahn) death sentence (executed 09.03.1947 in Belgrade)
(SS-Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant, head of military administration for Serbia)

5.) Ernst-Ludwig Schulze-Langemann (02.09.1898 in Elmshorn) death sentence (executed 09.04.1947 in Belgrade)
(Major, Kreiskommandant in Zajecar)

6.) Franz Tritschler (28.12.1897 in Freiburg) death sentence (executed 24.03.1947 in Belgrad)
(Kriminalsekretär Gestapo in Belgrade)

7.) Walter Erich Herbert Viktor Vierow (01.05.1892 in Berlin) 20 years imprisonment (released 23.03.1953, died 20.03.1959 in Hannover)
(Generalmajor, Feldkommandant in Belgrade)

8.) Karl von Bothmer (23.12.1880 in Greifswald) death sentence (executed 31.03.1947 in Belgrad)
(Major, Feldkommandant in Nišu)

9.) Rudolf Berg (1901) death sentence (executed)
(policeman Geheime Feldpolizei in Belgrade, Kragujevac und Pancevo)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by George_W » 30 Sep 2019, 21:49

Small corrections and additions:

Highest rank of Kiessel in the SS was SS-Obersturmbannführer and as far i know he was deputy to Harald Turner in Yugoslavia.

I have Behne, Josten, Kiessel, Turner, Schulze-Langemann and Berg as extradited by the British authorities to Yugoslavia and Vierow as extradited by the US authorities.

George

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by steve248 » 01 Oct 2019, 08:43

Kiessel was extradited from the British Zone.

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 01 Oct 2019, 13:12

Trial 21.08.1945 in Ljubljana
1.) Ludwig Weber (10.08.1910) death sentence (executed 27.11.1945 in Ljubljana) Gestapo in Ljubljana
2.) Alois Eggert (10.06.1921) death sentence (executed 27.11.1945 in Ljubljana) Gestapo in Ljubljana

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 01 Oct 2019, 13:13

Trial 10.07.1947 - 19.07.1947 in Ljubljana
1.) Hans Fleckner (02.10.1898 in Krefeld) death sentence (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(Oberstleutnant der Schutzpolizei)

2.) Reinhold Gerlach (09.04.1910 in Emilienthal) death sentence 19.07.1947 (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(Gestapo in Ljubljana)

3.) Franz Müller (25.04.1912 in Domzalah) death sentence 19.07.1947 (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(Gestapo in Ljubljana and Litija)

4.) Günther Neubert (09.04.1912 in Berlin) death sentence 19.7.1947 (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)

5.) Friedrich Rainer (28.07.1903 in Sankt Veit) death sentence (executed 19.07.1947 in Ljubljana)
(NSDAP-Gauleiter, (Oberster Kommissar Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland))

6.) Ludwig Kübler (02.09.1889 in München) death sentence (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(General commander 97. Armee-Korps)

7.) Josef Vogt (30.07.1897 in Mettmann) death sentence (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(SS-Sturmbannführer)

8.) Walther Hochsteiner (11.06.1909 in Weitensfeld) death sentence (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(Kreisleiter)

9.) Helmut Glaser (29.07.1910 in Gmünd) death sentence (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(SS-Sturmbannführer)

10.) Leo Kuss (28.06.1901 in Scheifling) death sentence (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(Kreisleiter in Krainburg/Kranj (1942/43))

11.) Heinrich Christl (12.02.1894 in Arnnschweigen) death sentence (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(Oberst, commander Geb.Jg.Rgt. 904)

12.) Hans von Hösslin (20.09.1880 in Erbach) death sentence (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
(Generalleutnant commander 188. Geb.Div.)

13.) Hermann Doujak (07.04.1904 in Klagenfurt) 18 years hard labour (released 31.10.1952, died 1997)
(SS-Obersturmführer, dt. Landrat in Stein/Kamnik (1941-1943))

14.) Franz Hradetzky (19.05.1906 in Klagenfurt) 16 years hard labour (released 30.07.1952)
(SS-Hauptsturmführer, Kreisleiter Radmannsdorf)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 01 Oct 2019, 13:14

Trial 10.09.1947 in Belgrade
1.) Adolf Fischer (23.07.1893 in Schwerte) death sentence (executed 23.10.1947 in Belgrade)
(Generalmajor)

2.) Martin Fiebig (07.05.1891 in Rösnitz) death sentence (executed 23.10.1947 in Belgrade)
(General der Flieger)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 01 Oct 2019, 13:15

Trial 08.10.1948 in Ljubljana
1.) Hermann Farnleitner (03.04.1908 in Weiz) death sentence (executed 26.12.1948 in Ljubljana)
(Gestapo in Ptuj)

2.) Emil Vogel (08.05.1911 in Köln) death sentence (executed 26.12.1948 in Ljubljana)
(Gestapo in Brežice)

Trial 20.03.1949 in Ljubljana
1.) Otto Lurker (28.07.1896 in Griesheim) death sentence (executed 20.04.1949 in Ljubljana)
(SS-Standartenführer, Head of security service of SS in Lower Styria)

2.) Paul Duscha (30.04.1910 in Graudenz or Graz?) death sentence (executed 20.04.1949 in Ljubljana)
(chief of the Gestapo in Ljubljana)

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