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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Researcher » 27 Dec 2021, 20:38

Please help with my search for accuracy with SS SS-Obersturmführer SEIFERT

From this thread:-

ansata1976 post #347
"Norweger-Prozeß" 14.10.1946 - 23.10.1946 in Belgrade
SS-Obersturmführer Otto Erich Hans Seifert (18.05.1894 in Wessau) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1946 in Belgrade)

ansata1976 post #341
Trial 22.10.1947 - 31.10.1947 in Belgrade
SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Seifert (18.05.1894 in Wessau) sentenced to death (executed 14.11.1947 in Belgrade)

It seems I'm not the only one confused.

I can confirm that SS-Obersturmführer Otto Erich Hans Seifert (18.05.1894 in DESSAU) was in British captivity in Norway and I believe extradited to Yugoslavia but I'm not sure when.
From a Yugoslav book I read in 1995 there was a Otto Seifert tried & executed as per Norweger-Prozeß details.

From a UK National Archives file I found a Willi Oskar Safert extradited to Yugoslav authorities in May 1946 (no date of birth) although this name could be miss-spelt.

There may well be two Otto Seifert, both tried in Belgrade but not with the same date & place of birth!


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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Puck » 27 Dec 2021, 23:46

Seifert, Otto.jpg
from Crowcass Detention List 10, September 1946
SS-Ostuf Otto Seifert in Jess Heim Camp Akershus Prison, Norway

I think he was extradicted in April 1947 - see this document from https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/144603/452
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By the way, Otto Seifert born 18.05.1894 in Dessau (not Wessau, there is no place with this name)

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by gloriavictis » 09 Feb 2022, 05:31

Aaccuracy with SS SS-Obersturmführer SEIFERT:

Apparently there was two men with the surname Seifert, both convicted on Military court of the city of Belgrade, but not with the same date of birth and not with of the same date of death. Both was executed by verdict "death by hanging", by Military court of the city of Belgrade.

Source and further information:

database of persons sentenced to death in Serbia 1804-2002 and Yugoslavia 1918-1991

http://www.smrtnakazna.rs/en-gb/home.aspx

Willi Seifert, born 1888, Obersturmführer SS, executed in Belgrade 14. 11. 1946.

http://www.smrtnakazna.rs/en-gb/Osudjenik.aspx?id=3685


Otto Seifert, born 1894, Obersturmführer SS, executed in Belgrade 21. 12. 1947.

http://www.smrtnakazna.rs/en-gb/Osudjenik.aspx?id=4305

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Puck » 05 Apr 2022, 09:11

dylan wrote:
23 Oct 2011, 23:30
Hallo Ansata,

Othmar Kallinger born 27/09/1909 in Vienna.
Official of the Bureau of yhe Reichskommissars fuer den Deutschen Volksstum.
SS Obersturmf. 1941 Slovenia.
Wanted for deportation of civilians.

Dylan.
Othmar Kallinger was also as SS-Rottenführer d.Res member of SS-Wachbataillon 6 in Oslo
so probably also linked to camp-crimes in Norway
1946 in CIC Sandbostel

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by steve248 » 05 Apr 2022, 10:47

Otto Seifert (with incorrect rank) already listed here
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25428&start=330

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Puck » 05 Apr 2022, 19:48

gloriavictis wrote:
09 Feb 2022, 05:31
Willi Seifert, born 1888, Obersturmführer SS, executed in Belgrade 14. 11. 1946.

http://www.smrtnakazna.rs/en-gb/Osudjenik.aspx?id=3685
May be this man:
SS-Ostuf Wilhelm Seifert (SS #221127) from camp Beisfjord to camp Elsfjord
(from Tagesbefehl 43/42 HSSPF Nord - 09.12.1942)
SS-Ostuf Seifert, Wilhelm (1942-11-01).jpg
Probably linked to the Beisford-Massaker (murder of 288 jugoslav POW (mostly serbs) of camp Beisfjord in july 1942)
After october 1942 camp Beisfjord was used for russian POW.

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Edit:
Just noticed: SS #221127 is definetely Otto Seifert (*18.05.1894) - so in the document above must be a typo: either the firstname or the SS-nummber!

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by [email protected] » 10 Jul 2022, 00:31

I believe Franz Schilling is my great Grandfather born in 1922 and died in US in 2000
ansata1976 wrote:
23 Mar 2012, 00:43
I am looking for the dates(birt and death) of the following men sentenced to death in Yugoslavia:


SS-Rottenführer Anton Eichinger
Oberst Friedrich Bassarke
Hauptmann der Polizei Albert Tenessen
Leutnant Otto Blöss
Major Hans Wagner
Major Eckardt Brettschneider
Oberstleutnants Anton Walter
Hauptmann Hans Götz
Hauptmann Johannes Kemper
Leutnant Josef Klein
Major Heinrich Krüger
SS-Obersturmführer Erich Lipczinski
Leutnant Hermann Lorenz
Hauptmann Karl Müller
Leutnant der Polizei Fritz Müller
Hauptmann Albrecht Rogge
Leutnant Wolfgang Pfleiderer
Major Mathias Rossembeck
Generalmajor Friedrich-Paul Hermann
SS-Sturmführer Alfred Rosendahl/Rosenthal
Leutnant Gustav Heufing
Hauptmann Franz Schilling
Hauptmann Günther Steinmann
Major Ernst Ludwig Langemann Schulze
Polizeipräsident in Kraljevo und Kragujevac Karl Reitz
SS-Sturmscharführer Josef Eckert
Zoll-Sekretär Hermann Maudanz
Polizei-Oberst Hermann Müller
SS-Oberscharführer Thomas Pfeffer

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 10 Jul 2022, 12:49

ansata1976 wrote:
23 Mar 2012, 00:43
I am looking for the dates(birt and death) of the following men sentenced to death in Yugoslavia:
...
Hauptmann Franz Schilling
...
[email protected] wrote:
10 Jul 2022, 00:31
I believe Franz Schilling is my great Grandfather born in 1922 and died in US in 2000
Hello and :welcome:

It is not the same Franz Schilling. The one in question here was born in 1897 (see this link).

Cheers,
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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Puck » 25 Nov 2022, 04:05

steve248 wrote:
30 Nov 2019, 17:36
Fritz Müller - born 8 Sept 1911, Frankfurt/Main
ansata1976 wrote:
07 Mar 2021, 12:46
Trial 09.12.1946 – 22.12.1946 in Belgrade
SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Müller (08.09.1911 in Frankfurt/Main) sentenced to death (executed 24.01.1947 in Belgrade)
Hmm, I'm believing it might be this man
SS-Hstuf/KR Fritz Müller (*08.10.1911), SS #375140
Heimatdienststelle Stapo Brüx
probably same as SS-Ustuf/SS-Ostuf Fritz Müller in RSHA - Ref II C10 in 1942/1943
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His dob is mysterious:
Landesarchiv Berlin has 08.01.1911
https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/E4VW ... 0488622685
Bundesarchiv has 08.10.1911
https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio ... ae9765b8a/
https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio ... e3c415f0c/
https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio ... b8e8c155d/

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by steve248 » 25 Nov 2022, 14:16

I think when I gave Fritz Müller his DOB as 8 Sept 1911 this was a typo. I only have him as born 8 Oct 1911.
I do not think Brüx was his Heimatdienststelle and his Sipo service before his posting to Belgrade is very thin.

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 19 Dec 2023, 20:19

What is the correct date and place of birth of:

Ignaz Witek
Karl Schwander
Kurt Bretschneider
Karl Fleckstein
Max Reinke
Adolf Wenzel
Bruno Wendland
Otto Barschikowksi
Gustav Wesolek
Heinrich Dose

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 20 Dec 2023, 20:38

ansata1976 wrote:
02 Oct 2019, 18:31
I am interested in more information about the trial and the defendants(missing names, sentences, date + place of birth...)

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

Other names of defendants are unknown to me
Trial 29.05. - 06.06.1947 in Zrenjanin (formerly known as Petrovgrad and Veliki Bečkerek) - 14 defendants, 7 death and 7 prison sentences

1. Dr Franz Reith (b. 21.11.1909 in Obrovac, Bačka Palanka), police prefect of the Banat, based in Petrovgrad - death by hanging
2. Jürgen Wagner (b. 09.09.1901 in Straßburg), military commander of Petrovgrad - death by firing squad
3. Josip Mežnar (b. 18.08.1901 in Libeliče, Dravograd), police agent in Petrovgrad - death by hanging
4. Natalija Vojković (b. 02.11.1908 in Vršac), police typist and co-investigator in Petrovgrad - 15 years in prison
5. Milivoj [Milivoje] Čejić (b. 09.01.1921 in Pavliš, Vršac), police agent in Petrovgrad, former partisan - 12 years in prison
6. Paul Ruschiwal (b. 13.07.1914 in Elemir, Veliki Bečkerek), policeman in Petrovgrad - death by firing squad
7. Josef Herold (b. 30.08.1917 in Elemir, Veliki Bečkerek), policeman in Petrovgrad - death by firing squad
8. Dr Eugen Kussing (b. 08.04.1905 in Veliki Bečkerek), district chief in Velika Kikinda and Pančevo - death by hanging
9. Dr Đuro [Đura] Rebić (b. 29.04.1897 in Gornje Dubrave, Ogulin), district chief in Kovačica and Alibunar - 12 years in prison
10. Boško Dekanski (b. 10.09.1898 in Sremska Mitrovica), district chief in Alibunar and Kovačica - 12 years in prison
11. Vladimir Aćimov (b. 16.10.1896 in Sefkerin, Pančevo), municipal clerk in Ilandža, Dobrica, Glogonj and Opovo - 8 years in prison
12. Dragoljub Novakov (b. 20.10.1910 in Dobrica, Alibunar), municipal clerk in Ferdin - 8 years in prison
13. Franz Lautner (b. 05.02.1902 in Dolovo, Pančevo), municipal clerk in Starčevo and Omoljica - death by firing squad
14. Szabo Lajos (b. 29.10.1905 in Nakovo, Velika Kikinda), municipal clerk in Novi Itebej and Mihajlovo - 8 years in prison

Notes:
Spellings should be re-checked for all non-Slavic defendant names. At the trial itself, the first defendant was Dr Reith and it was him who got most of the media attention; but in a post-trial verdict document (10.06.1947), Wagner was listed as the first defendant. Vojislava [Vojislavka] Milankov and Žarko Jakšić (both police agents in Petrovgrad) were also supposed to be tried with this group, but weren't.

Sources:
Slobodna Vojvodina, Novi Sad, 27.05. - 07.06.1947 (Zrenjanin trial reports); Jelena Đ. Lopičić-Jančić (ed.), Ratni zločini nemačkih okupatora u Jugoslaviji 1941–1945. godine – Presude jugoslovenskih vojnih sudova, Muzej žrtava genocida, Beograd, 2010, pp. 13-16; Das Totenbuch der Donauschwaben, Donauschwäbische Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Österreich (note that this source lists Velika Kikinda as Dr Kussing's place of birth).

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 21 Dec 2023, 01:53

Thank you for this great information.

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Re: Yugoslav War Crimes Trials of German Officials

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Post by ansata1976 » 23 Dec 2023, 22:04

I found an information that a man with the name Hans Genninger was sentenced to death (camp staff in Norway). Who can help me with more information??

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