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Post by ansata1976 » 05 Jun 2009, 16:18

I need more informations(date and place of birth) about:

Sturmman Kurt ZUEHLSDORF
Matrozer Josef MERTENS
Unterscharfuhrer Joacim GOLTZ
Rottenfuhrer Heinz BRULING
Oberfahnrich Erich Pallme KOENIG

Military Court held at London District P.O.W Cage, 6-8 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8, on 2-7, 9-12 July 1945 upon the trial of 8 German Prisoners-of-War
Committing a civil offence, that is to say, the murder of FELDWEBEL WOLFGANG ROSTERG, on 23 December 1944 at No. 21 P.O.W Camp, Comrie, Scotland.

Sentence Prisoner Remark
Death by Hanging Zuehlsdorff
Death by Hanging Herzig Commuted to Penal Servitude for Life
Death by Hanging Mertens
Death by Hanging Goltz
Death by Hanging Bruling
Death by Hanging Koeing
Not Guilty Wunderlich
Not Guilty Klien

None of the accused called any witnesses. They all gave sworn evidence themselves, except BRULING who made a unsworn statement

Zuehlsdorff, Mertens, Goltz, Bruling and Koeing were hanged at H.M.P. Pentonville on Saturday 6 October 1945. These five executions is the largest number carried out in one day at the same prison in the UK.

and i need the date and place of birth of :

Emil Schmittendorf
Armin Kuehne

Kuehne and Schmittendorf were found guilty and were executed on the 16th November 1945 at Pentonville Prison in London.
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Re: UK Trial

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Post by ansata1976 » 05 Jun 2009, 18:50

and I need the date and place of birth of:


Name : Date executed: Name of victim:


Walter Beyer 10 July 1945 Johannes Kunze

Hans Demme 10 July 1945 Johannes Kunze

Hans Schomer 10 July 1945 Johannes Kunze

Willie Scholz 10 July 1945 Johannes Kunze

Berthold Seidel 10 July 1945 Johannes Kunze

Erich Gauss 14 July 1945 Horst Günther

Rudolph Straub 14 July 1945 Horst Günther

Helmut Fischer 25 August 1945 Werner Drechsler

Fritz Franke 25 August 1945 Werner Drechsler

Guenther Kuelsen 25 August 1945 Werner Drechsler

Heinrich Ludwig 25 August 1945 Werner Drechsler

Bernard Reyak 25 August 1945 Werner Drechsler

Otto Stengel 25 August 1945 Werner Drechsler

Rolf Wizuy 25 August 1945 Werner Drechsler
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Re: UK Trial

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Post by Heimatschuss » 05 Jun 2009, 21:26

Hello,

all subsequent information from www.volksbund.de

Nachname: Beyer
Vorname: Walter
Dienstgrad: Hauptfeldwebel
Geburtsdatum: 02.11.1911
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 10.07.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Walter Beyer ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 10 Grab 31


Nachname: Demme
Vorname: Hans
Dienstgrad: Unteroffizier
Geburtsdatum: 22.12.1920
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 10.07.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Hans Demme ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 10 Grab 29


Nachname: Schomer
Vorname: Hans
Dienstgrad: Unteroffizier
Geburtsdatum: 04.10.1916
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 10.07.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Hans Schomer ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 10 Grab 28


Nachname: Scholz
Vorname: Willi
Dienstgrad: Obergefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 11.12.1921
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 10.07.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Willi Scholz ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 10 Grab 27


Nachname: Seidel
Vorname: Berthold
Dienstgrad: Feldwebel
Geburtsdatum: 01.03.1914
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 10.07.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Berthold Seidel ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 10 Grab 30


Nachname: Gauss
Vorname: Erich
Dienstgrad: Unteroffizier
Geburtsdatum: 05.07.1913
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 14.07.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Erich Gauss ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 10 Grab 26


Nachname: Staub (sic!)
Vorname: Rudolf
Dienstgrad: Grenadier
Geburtsdatum: 09.02.1906
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 14.07.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Rudolf Staub ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 25


Nachname: Fischer
Vorname: Helmut
Dienstgrad: Obergefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 20.09.1922
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.08.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Helmut Fischer ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 24


Nachname: Franke
Vorname: Fritz
Dienstgrad: Gefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 08.12.1923
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.08.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Fritz Franke ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 23


Nachname: Külsen
Vorname: Günter
Dienstgrad: Maat
Geburtsdatum: 17.07.1923
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.08.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Günter Külsen ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 22


Nachname: Ludwig
Vorname: Heinrich
Dienstgrad: Matrosengefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 14.09.1919
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.08.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Heinrich Ludwig ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 21


Nachname: Reyak
Vorname: Bernhard
Dienstgrad: Obergefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 28.11.1923
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.08.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Bernhard Reyak ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 20


Nachname: Stengel
Vorname: Otto
Dienstgrad: Obergefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 09.02.1919
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.08.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Otto Stengel ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 19


Nachname: Wizny (sic!)
Vorname: Rolf
Dienstgrad: Obergefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 07.10.1921
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.08.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort:
Rolf Wizny ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Fort Leavenworth/Kans. (USA) .
Endgrablage: Block 11 Grab 18


Best regards
Torsten
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Re: UK Trial

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Post by ansata1976 » 05 Jun 2009, 22:10

Thank you, and

Sturmman Kurt ZUEHLSDORF
Matrozer Josef MERTENS
Unterscharfuhrer Joacim GOLTZ
Rottenfuhrer Heinz BRULING
Oberfahnrich Erich Pallme KOENIG
Emil Schmittendorf
Armin Kuehne
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Post by ansata1976 » 07 Jun 2009, 17:47

Has anyone more information about men sentenced in the USA:

Herbert Hans Haupt, Edward Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Werner Thiel, Heinrich Heinck, and Richard Quirin, were executed on August 8, 1942 in the District of Columbia's electric chair in Washington, D.C.

and informations about :

Corporal Josef Jakobs (30 June 1898 – 15 August 1941) sentenced and executed in England

I need date and place of birth.
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Post by David Thompson » 07 Jun 2009, 18:44

ansata1976 -- You asked:
Has anyone more information about men sentenced in the USA:

Herbert Hans Haupt, Edward Kerling, Hermann Neubauer, Werner Thiel, Heinrich Heinck, and Richard Quirin, were executed on August 8, 1942 in the District of Columbia's electric chair in Washington, D.C.
These Nazi saboteurs are well-covered on the internet. A google search for Haupt's name gave 1240 entries. You can get a good start with this article, and follow through on the links it gives:

Ex parte Quirin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Quirin

For a transcript of their trial by a US military commission see:

The "Saboteurs"
http://www.soc.umn.edu/~samaha/nazi_sab ... exnazi.htm
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Re: UK Trial

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Post by Mundhenk » 05 Aug 2010, 14:34

Dear ansata1976, dear readers

may I ask why you are so interested in the Pentonville hangings?
I can give you information about Armin Kuehne, he's my grandmother's cousin and I just received his birth certificate.

So here's all I have:

Geburtsname: Kühne
Vornamen: Armin Robert Franz

Geschlecht: männlich

geboren: 28.01.1927 in Gera
gestorben: 16.11.1945 in London, Großbritannien

Vater: Hermann Friedrich Herbert Kühne [29.12.1904 - 14.06.1957 (7 Kinder)]
Mutter: Helene Zimmermann [01.10.1903 (7 Kinder)]

Anmerkungen: Daten vom Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge:
Dienstgrad: Gefreiter
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 16.11.1945
Todes-/Vermisstenort: Pentonville Prison, London

Armin Kühne wurde noch nicht auf einen vom Volksbund errichteten Soldatenfriedhof überführt oder konnte im Rahmen unserer Umbettungsarbeiten nicht geborgen werden.

Armin Kühne wurde im Gefängnis wegen Mordes gehängt.
Quelle: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/penton.html
Unusually, 5 young prisoners of war were hanged at Pentonville on Saturday, the 6th of October 1945. They were Joachim Palme-Goltz, Josep Mertins, Heinz Brueling, Erich Koenig and Kurt Zuchlsdorff. All 5 were in their early 20’s. They had been convicted of the murder of Sergeant Major Wolfganf Rosterg on Saturday, the 23rd of December 1944, who they had beaten and hanged within their prisoner of war camp as they suspected that he had given them away to the authorities for attempting to escape. While they admitted that they had killed Rosterg, they viewed the killing as the execution of a traitor (hence presumably why they hanged him) rather than murder. They were tried at Kensington Palace Gardens before a military tribunal and quickly convicted. Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Steve Wade and Harry Allen, carried out the executions. It is assumed that there was one triple and one double hanging at hour and a half intervals, in the order that they are mentioned above. A further two were to be hanged for a similar offence the following month after trial by court martial at Kensington Palace Gardens. They were Armin Keuhne (21) and Emil Schmittendorf (31) who were executed by Albert Pierrepoint on Friday, the 16th of November for battering to death Gerhardt Rettig in a P.o.W. camp near Sheffield because they believed he had betrayed them over an escape plan.

Quellen: Geburtsregister: 80/1927, Gera I (vormittags um dreieinviertel Uhr)

Can you please tell me more about his trial and execution? Please feel free to send a mail to [email protected]
I found information on http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/penton.html, there he is described as 21 years old. in fact he was just 18.

Kind regards
Marco Mundhenk
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Re: UK Trial

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Post by ansata1976 » 19 Aug 2011, 21:26

Emil Schmittendorf
25.05.1914 in Melsdorf
Feldwebel
executed 16.11.1945 in Pentonville Prison, London

Joachim Goltz
19.01.1925 in Stensch
Unteroffizier
executed 06.10.1945 in Pentonville Prison, London

Josef Mertens
08.11.1923 in Bickendorf
Gefreiter
executed 06.10.1945 in Pentonville Prison, London

Kurt Zühlsdorff
05.02.1925 in Lübeck
SS-Sturmmann
executed 06.10.1945 in Pentonville Prison, London

Erich Palme-König
08.07.1924 in Wien
Oberfähnrich
executed 06.10.1945 in Pentonville Prison, London
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Post by ansata1976 » 03 Feb 2021, 18:08

The Tonkawa Case Trial
Hauptfeldwebel Walter Beyer (02.11.1911 in Hamburg) sentenced to death (executed 10.07.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Unteroffizier Hans Demme (22.12.1920 in Kassel) sentenced to death (executed 10.07.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Unteroffizier Hans Schomer (04.10.1916 in Mayen) sentenced to death (executed 10.07.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Obergefreiter Willie Scholz (11.12.1921 in Protsch) sentenced to death (executed 10.07.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Feldwebel Berthold Seidel (01.03.1914 in Hamburg) sentenced to death (executed 10.07.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)

The Camp Aiken Case Trial
Unteroffizier Erich Gauss (05.07.1913 in Comeiler) sentenced to death (executed 14.07.1945 in Fort Leavenworth USA)
Gefreiter Rudolph Straub (09.02.1906 in Würmlingen) sentenced to death (executed 14.07.1945 in Fort Leavenworth USA)

The Papago Park Case Trial
Obergefreiter Helmut Fischer (20.09.1922 in Ravensburg) sentenced to death (executed 25.08.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Gefreiter Fritz Franke (08.12.1923 in Zielenzig/Neumark) sentenced to death (executed 25.08.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Maat Günter Külsen (17.07.1923 in Düsseldorf) sentenced to death (executed 25.08.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA))
Gefreiter Heinrich Ludwig (14.09.1919 in Essen) sentenced to death (executed 25.08.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Obergefreiter Bernhard Reyak (28.11.1923 in Neuss) sentenced to death (executed 25.08.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Obergefreiter Otto Stengel (09.02.1919 in Aunkofen) sentenced to death (executed 25.08.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
Obergefreiter Rolf Wizuy (07.10.1921 in Grimma) sentenced to death (executed 25.08.1945 in Fort Leavenworth, USA)
The Papago Park Case Trial.jpg
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Re: UK Trial

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Post by ansata1976 » 03 Feb 2021, 18:11

Trial ??.08.1945 in London
Feldwebel Emil Schmittendorf (25.05.1914 in Melsdorf) sentenced to death (executed 16.11.1945 in London)
Gefreiter Armin Robert Franz Kühne (28.01.1927 in Gera) sentenced to death (executed 16.11.1945 in London)
Unteroffizier Heinz Ditzler (?) acquitted
Soldat Jürgen Kersting (?) acquitted

Trial 02.07.1945 – 12.07.1945 in London
SS-Sturmmann Kurt Zühlsdorff (05.02.1925 in Lübeck) sentenced to death (executed 06.10.1945 in London)
Unteroffizier Rolf Herzig (?) sentenced to death (commuted to life imprisonment) (released after 8 years)
Gefreiter Josef Mertens (08.11.1923 in Bickendorf) sentenced to death (executed 06.10.1945 in London)
SS-Unterscharführer Joachim Goltz (19.01.1925 in Stensch) sentenced to death (executed 06.10.1945 in London)
SS-Rottenführer Heinrich-Wernhard Brüning (?) sentenced to death (executed 06.10.1945 in London)
Oberfähnrich Erich Palme-König (08.07.1924 in Wien) sentenced to death (executed 06.10.1945 in London)
Obergefreiter Herbert Wunderlich (?) acquitted
Oberfeldwebel Hans Klein (?) acquitted
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