Alfred Driemel

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Alfred Driemel (* 24. August 1907 in Küstrin ; † 19th February 1947 in Berlin ) was a German Nazi , who as obersturmführer including in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and in the Stutthof concentration camp was used in a leading position and after Was executed as a war criminal at the end of the Second World War .

Life

Driemel made his living as a laborer. First he was a member of the SPD and then the KPD . Finally he turned to the National Socialists. As early as 1928 he joined the SA and from 1929 belonged to the NSDAP (membership no. 121.168) and SS (SS no. 1,848), where he rose to SS-Obersturmführer in 1939. From 1929 Driemel headed the Hitler Youth in Starnberg . In the early 1930s he committed several politically motivated crimes in Starnberg (including vandalism on a DNVP showcase , giving an anti-Semitic speech) and because of this came into the focus of the police and the judiciary. He was also involved in disputes with political opponents, for example on July 17, 1932, after a clash between SA men and members of the Reich Banner, he was hospitalized with a head injury.

After the National Socialists seized power , he joined the concentration camp service and was initially a member of the Dachau concentration camp guard from August 1933 to March 1936 . He then worked as an administrative manager in the Bad Sulza concentration camp . On April 30, 1936, Driemel wrote to a colleague of the camp SS that the new methods of the Dachau camp commandant Heinrich Deubel and his deputy Karl d'Angelo had established a "disgustingly humane treatment" of prisoners. Although forced labor, abuse and humiliation never stopped in Dachau concentration camp, Deubel and d'Angelo were dismissed from their posts on the basis of such allegations. After the Bad Sulza concentration camp was dissolved, Driemel was transferred to the newly established Buchenwald concentration camp in 1937 , where he took over the post of prisoner money administrator. According to Buchenwald survivor Eugen Kogon, Driemel “did not disdain even the smallest contributions, let alone the larger ones. A popular 'joke' of his was to inform the block elders of the Jewish bloc after the payment was over that a Jew had shit him for 10 marks , whereupon all the Jewish blocs had to deliver 10 marks each to him immediately ”. In October 1941 he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he became the third security camp leader . In May 1942 he moved to the Stutthof concentration camp, where he served as the second protective custody camp leader.

From May 1943 he was deployed in Warsaw and took part in the German-Soviet War with the 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" . On December 10, 1943, he was taken prisoner of war and taken to a camp in the Ukrainian SSR . There he posed as a soldier with the false name Schwarz , but was exposed by Soviet informants.

There was a trial against Driemel before the Soviet military tribunal of the Berlin garrison and according to Ukas 43 he was sentenced to death on December 28, 1946. The war crimes he was charged with concerned acts in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp: In addition to participating in the "shooting of around 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war in the crematorium in November 1941", 15 concentration camp inmates were mistreated as head of a work detachment. After a petition for clemency was rejected, Driemel was executed by shooting on February 19, 1947 in Berlin.

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , short biographies on the enclosed CD, p. 106 there.
  • Sibylle Friedrike Hellerer: The NSDAP in the Starnberg district. From the Appendices to the Consolidation of Power (1919–1938) , dissertation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich 2014. ( online , open PDF)
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sibylle Friedrike Lighter: The NSDAP district Starnberg. From the appendices to the consolidation of power (1919–1938) , dissertation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2014, p. 133
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study , Göttingen 2015, short biographies on the enclosed CD, p. 106 there.
  3. ↑ Sibylle Friedrike Lighter: The NSDAP district Starnberg. From the appendices to the consolidation of power (1919–1938) , dissertation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2014, p. 243
  4. ↑ Sibylle Friedrike Lighter: The NSDAP district Starnberg. From the appendices to the consolidation of power (1919–1938) , dissertation at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich 2014, pp. 133f.
  5. ↑ Sibylle Friedrike Lighter: The NSDAP district Starnberg. From the appendices to the consolidation of power (1919–1938) , dissertation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2014, p. 181
  6. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Because we don't know anything yet on https://www.welt.de from May 21, 2016
  7. ↑ Eugen Kogon: The SS State: The System of German Concentration Camps , Kindler Munich, 1974, p. 147
personal data
SURNAME Driemel, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist and SS-Obersturmführer in concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1947
Place of death Berlin