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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 13:25

Trial 28.10.1946 - 05.11.1946 in Belgrade
Oberst Ernst Blümel (12.11.1883 in Darmstadt) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Oberst Kurt Sieber (27.11.1885 in Ober-Adelsdorf) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Hauptscharführer Waldemar Dehm (1893) sentenced to death (commuted to 20 years imprisonment, released in March 1953)
Hauptmann Friedrich Radermacher (02.02.1892 in Eupen) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Hauptmann Franz Kunze (24.01.1892 in Gelsenkirchen) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Hauptmann Erich Heringhaus (03.03.1897 in Elberfeld) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Willi Mund (1903) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Willi Müller (1899) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Helmuth Bock (18.06.1917) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Günther Schulz (29.12.1908 in Herford) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Friedrich Epke (1890) sentenced to death (commuted to 20 years imprisonment, released in March 1953)
Margarethe Dethleffsen (17.08.1917) sentenced to death (executed 20.12.1946 in Belgrade)
Batel (?) sentenced to 12 years hard labour
Wilkens (?) sentenced to 12 years hard labour

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 13:37

"Norweger-Prozeß" 14.10.1946 - 23.10.1946 in Belgrade
SS-Obersturmführer Karl Hesse (1897) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Karl Lampe (13.01.1892 in Hannover) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Johann Josef Anninger (06.09.1894 in Amberg) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
Obertruppführer Oskar Wilhelm Karl Lindner (05.06.1899 in Berlin) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Max Leopold (26.10.1888 in Lübeck) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer August Riemer (11.09.1893 in Rastatt) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Sturmscharführer Karl Matthäus (05.05.1891) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Willibald Kranz (16.10.1904 in Ludwigshafen) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Obersturmführer Friedrich Dwelk (19.02.1891 in Dwerkaten) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Richard Arno Hager (20.12.1890 in Plauen) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
Unteroffizier Emil Kalinowski (15.02.1900 in Groß Nappern) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Obersturmführer Otto Erich Hans Seifert (18.05.1894 in Wessau) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
Hauptmann Heinrich Schulte (23.10.1896 in Campe) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Friedrich Jakob Kappus (28.12.1888 in Lahr-Dinglingen) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Friedrich Lehmann (16.10.1892 in Hornberg) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Ignaz Witek (1898) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Karl Schwander (1895) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Oberscharführer Max Gemeinhard (05.10.1891) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
SS-Untersturmführer Kurt Bretschneider (1897) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
Unteroffizier Karl Fleckstein (1900) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
Hauptmann Česlaus Ratzek (1893) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
Unteroffizier Max Reinke (1906) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)
Hauptmann Josef Zwinger (11.06.1896) sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
Obergefreiter Adolf Wenzel (?) sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
Josef Starkens (05.08.1899 in Düren) sentenced to 14 years imprisonment (died 29.12.1947 in Sremska Mitrovica prison)
Sanitätsunteroffizier Walter Müller (?) sentenced to 14 years imprisonment
Christian Schrade (?) sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
Unteroffizier Emil Brejora (02.11.1902) sentenced to 14 years imprisonment
Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Dose (?) sentenced to 9 years imprisonment
Unteroffizier Gustav Wesolek (?) sentenced to 8 years imprisonment
Bruno Wendland (?) sentenced to 6 years imprisonment
Oberleutnant Otto Barschikowksi (?) sentenced to 5 years imprisonment


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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 13:39

Trial 26.09.1949 in Belgrade
Leutnant der Gendarmerie Eduard Johann Lacker (15.07.1910) sentenced to death (commuted to 20 years imprisonment 15.03.1950) Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei Julius Paul Runkel (?) sentenced to death (commuted to 20 years imprisonment 15.03.1950)
Ludwig Hermann Wolf (?) sentenced to death (commuted to 20 years imprisonment 15.03.1950)
Wilhelm Hilger (?) sentenced to death (commuted to 15 years imprisonment 15.03.1950)
Herbert Albert Grabow (?) sentenced to death (commuted to 15 years imprisonment 15.03.1950)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Oberstleutnant Otto Wehofer (?) sentenced to death in Nis (executed 03.07.1948)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 13:43

Trial 29.05.1947 - 06.06.1947 in Zrenjanin (13 defendants – 7 death sentence)
Generalmajor Jürgen Adolph Otto Paul Wagner (09.09.1901 in Straßburg) sentenced to death (executed 27.06.1947 in Belgrade)
Franz Reith (?) Polizeipräfekt des Banates sentenced to death (executed 06.07.1947)
Paul Rusivald (1914 in Elemir), prefect of police in Zrenjanin, sentenced to death (executed 06.07.1947)
Eugen Kusing (?) Landrat in Kikinda + Pantschowa, sentenced to death (executed 06.07.1947)
Josef Herold (1911 in Zrenjanin), police officer in Zrenjanin, sentenced to death (executed 06.07.1947)
Josip Mežnar (1901 in Zrenjanin), prefect of police in Zrenjanin, sentenced to death (executed 06.07.1947)
Bosko Dekanski (?) Landrat in Alibunar (prison sentence)
Bura Rebic (?) Landrat in Kovačica (prison sentence)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 13:46

Trial 10.07.1947 - 19.07.1947 in Ljubljana
Oberstleutnant Hans Fleckner (02.10.1898 in Krefeld) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Unterführer Reinhold Gerlach (09.04.1910 in Emilienthal) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Kriminalsekretär Franz Müller (25.04.1912 in Domzalah) death sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Günther Neubert (09.04.1912 in Berlin) death sentence 19.07.1947 (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Friedrich Rainer(28.07.1903 in Sankt Veit) death sentence (executed 19.07.1947 in Ljubljana)
General der Gebirgstruppe Ludwig Kübler (02.09.1889 in München) death sentence (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Sturmbannführer Josef Vogt (30.07.1897 in Mettmann) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Walther Hochsteiner (11.06.1909 in Weitensfeld) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Glaser (29.07.1910 in Gmünd) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Leo Kuss (28.06.1901 in Scheifling) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Oberst Heinrich Christl (12.02.1894 in Arnnschweigen) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Generalleutnant Hans von Hösslin (20.09.1880 in Erbach) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Doujak (07.04.1904 in Klagenfurt) sentenced to 18 years hard labour (released 31.10.1952, died 1997)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Hradetzky (19.05.1906 in Klagenfurt) sentenced to 16 years hard labour (released 30.07.1952)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 13:48

Trial 25.05.1949 in Belgrade
SS-Obersturmführer Erich Lipczinski (28.05.1912 in Berlin) sentenced to 20 years hard labour (changed to death sentence 10.08.1949,executed)
SS-Obersturmführer Gerhard Markewitz (08.01.1920 in Celle) sentenced to 20 years hard labour

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by George_W » 07 Mar 2021, 14:51

Trial 31.07.1950 and 03.09.1951 in Belgrade
SS-Sturmbannführer Kriminalrat Karl Benno Ditges (19.11.1899 Düsseldorf) sentenced to life hard labour (released 03.1953)

Trial 00.05.1950 in Belgrade (?)
SS-Sturmbannführer Regierungsrat Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (27.07.1908 Stromberg) sentenced to life imprisonment or hard labour (released 03.1953)
ansata1976 wrote:
07 Mar 2021, 13:46
Trial 10.07.1947 - 19.07.1947 in Ljubljana
Oberstleutnant Hans Fleckner (02.10.1898 in Krefeld) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Unterführer Reinhold Gerlach (09.04.1910 in Emilienthal) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Kriminalsekretär Franz Müller (25.04.1912 in Domzalah) death sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Günther Neubert (09.04.1912 in Berlin) death sentence 19.07.1947 (execution 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Friedrich Rainer(28.07.1903 in Sankt Veit) death sentence (executed 19.07.1947 in Ljubljana)
General der Gebirgstruppe Ludwig Kübler (02.09.1889 in München) death sentence (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Sturmbannführer Josef Vogt (30.07.1897 in Mettmann) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Walther Hochsteiner (11.06.1909 in Weitensfeld) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Glaser (29.07.1910 in Gmünd) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Leo Kuss (28.06.1901 in Scheifling) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Oberst Heinrich Christl (12.02.1894 in Arnnschweigen) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
Generalleutnant Hans von Hösslin (20.09.1880 in Erbach) sentenced to death (executed 18.08.1947 in Ljubljana)
SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Doujak (07.04.1904 in Klagenfurt) sentenced to 18 years hard labour (released 31.10.1952, died 1997)
SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Hradetzky (19.05.1906 in Klagenfurt) sentenced to 16 years hard labour (released 30.07.1952)
I have one more defendant on that trial, but it is possible that he was tried later, in the separate trial:
SS-Obergruppenführer Erwin Friedrich Karl Rösener (02.02.1902 Schwerte) sentenced to death (executed 04.09.1946 Ljubljana)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 19:37

In my sources I have

SS-Obergruppenführer Erwin Friedrich Karl Rösener (02.02.1902 in Schwerte) sentenced to death 30.08.1946 in Ljubljana (executed 04.09.1946 in Ljubljana)

He was sentenced together with General Leon Rupnik (10.08.1880 in Lokve) and the police chief of Ljubljana Lovro Hacin (23.08.1886 in Trata pri Velesovem). All three were executed 04.09.1946 in Ljubljana.

In the same trial:
Miha Krek (28.09.1897) sentenced to 15 years imprisonment (in absentia) died 18.11.1969 in Cleveland
Bishop Gregorij Rozman (09.03.1883 in Dolintschitschach) sentenced to 18 years imprisonment (in absentia) died 16.11.1959 in Cleveland
Vilko Vizjak (?) sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
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Thank you for the correction.

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Mar 2021, 20:09

Do you have further information about

Major Friedrich Paul Helmmann (1904) sentenced to death 17.07.1948 in Kragujevac (executed 1948)
Oberst Friedrich Becker (1898) sentenced to death 13.09.1949 in Belgrade (executed 02.12.1949 in Sremska Mitrovica)
Leutnant Lorenz Filtzinger (1922) sentenced to death 08.10.1949 in Belgrade (Vršac) (executed 1950)

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Post by George_W » 07 Mar 2021, 20:59

I'm sorry but i don't have any informations about these men.

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Post by George_W » 14 Mar 2021, 18:25

I have the information that SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Herbert Jilski might have been extradited to Yugoslavia in July 1947 by the British authorities. Unfortunately i don't have any additional informations about the alleged trial and sentence.

As far i know Jilski died in 1979 in West Germany so he might have been sentenced to prison and later released.

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Post by susodus » 17 May 2021, 14:09

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone has any information on
Polizei-Major Paul Fahnenschreiber 09.03.1903 in Düren executed 24.01.1947 in Belgrad

Or his actions between may and october 1943.
I am researching a person who was under his command in Velico Gradiste during that period.
It would be helpful to see the records from the trial in Belgrad. I wonder what actions he was sentenced for i.e. if the person I am researching was part of these crimes or if they happened later.

I believe it must have been the Polizei Freiwilligen Regiment Serbien 2, II. Btl.

Best regards,

Susanne

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by G. Trifkovic » 17 May 2021, 17:06

susodus wrote:
17 May 2021, 14:09
Hi,

I am wondering if anyone has any information on
Polizei-Major Paul Fahnenschreiber 09.03.1903 in Düren executed 24.01.1947 in Belgrad

Or his actions between may and october 1943.
I am researching a person who was under his command in Velico Gradiste during that period.
It would be helpful to see the records from the trial in Belgrad. I wonder what actions he was sentenced for i.e. if the person I am researching was part of these crimes or if they happened later.

I believe it must have been the Polizei Freiwilligen Regiment Serbien 2, II. Btl.

Best regards,

Susanne
Hi Susanne,

the court verdict to Fahnenschreiber is kept at Archives of Yugoslavia (Arhiv Jugoslavije) in Belgrade, under the signature AJ, 110, F-824-791; it was also published in Đorđe Lopičić's Nemački ratni zločini 1941-1945.: presude jugoslovenskih vojnih sudova (Belgrade: MŽG, 2009.), Document I/4. In brief, Fahnenschreiber was found guilty of rounding up civilians and not intervening against his subordinates who committed crimes; a couple of examples:

1) his battailon rounded up all males in the village of Šuvajić outside Veliko Gradište (the correct spelling) in October 1943, after which they were sent "as slave laborers" to Germany; similar incidents occurred in the villages of Zatonje and Češnjeva Bara on 2 and 30 June 1943, respectively, as well as Zelenika in December of the same year. During these raids, he personally hit one person and ordered the beating of one other.

2) members of his battalion killed a 60 year-old and wounded three more persons in Topolovnik on 22 July 1943, followed by the murder of two persons in the village of Makce six days later, and one more at Poljane on 22 October;

2) members of his battalion raped 30 women at Požarevac on 10 October 1943.

Fahnenschreiber admitted his men were badly disciplined, but claimed he punished every transgressor known to him.

Hope this helps,

Gaius

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