Alfred Krumbach

Alfred Krumbach (born April 12, 1911 in Berlin , † March 20, 1992 in Pforzheim ) was a German policeman, Gestapo detective and SS member.

Life

Krumbach first grew up in East Prussia and then attended school in Stettin . There he joined the NSDAP (membership number 567.909) and the SA in 1931 . In 1935 he was accepted into the service of the criminal police and transferred to the Gestapo. In the SS (membership number 280.142) he reached the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . He had been employed in Tilsit since 1940 and was promoted to detective inspector there in 1941. From 1941 to 1942 he was involved in mass murders of Jews and Soviet prisoners of war.

At the end of the war, Krumbach received false papers from the Reich Security Main Office and was taken into British captivity as an alleged Wehrmacht soldier. After his release he worked in Barsinghausen from 1947 to 1951 as a civilian employee for a unit of the British Army. He then worked as an employee in Hanover, where he took his name again, at Kreditreform . In June 1953 he was accepted into the protection of the constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia .

When he testified as a witness at the Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial on July 30, 1958 , he was immediately arrested by the examining magistrate.

On February 5, 1963, Krumbach was legally found guilty of participating in the killing of 827 people by the jury court of Dortmund and sentenced to four years and six months in prison.

literature

• Markus Mohr , Hartmut Rübner : Determination of opponents. Social science in the service of internal security. Unrast, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89771-499-1 .
• LG Dortmund, October 12, 1961 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XVII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . University Press, Amsterdam 1978, No. 547, pp. 1-40 Subject matter of the proceedings: mass and individual shootings of several thousand Jews and communists (men, women and children) on a 25 km wide strip in the Memelland, immediately beyond the East Prussian Lithuanian border in the first three months after the German troop invasion of the Baltic States. Shooting of 10 Jewish women and children imprisoned in the Wilkowischken police prison (early 1942). Shooting of at least 300 Russian prisoners of war near Pogegen in execution of the 'Commissar's Order' (July / August 1941)