Alfred Schimmel

Alfred Schimmel (born April 5, 1906 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † February 26, 1948 in Hameln ) was a German lawyer, SS-Sturmbannführer and Gestapo employee.

Life

After finishing his school career, Alfred Schimmel studied law . Schimmel became a member of the NSDAP in 1931 ( membership number 400.086). From 1935 he worked as a government assessor at the Ludwigshafen Police Department and was transferred to the Bavarian Political Police in Munich in 1936 . After transferring the Bavarian Political Police to the Secret State Police , he was appointed to the Government Council in 1937 . From 1938 he was department head (II B) at the state police headquarters in Munich . In September 1938 he received the equalization rank SS-Sturmbannführer (SS-No. 280.336).

During the Second World War , he headed the Gestapo from 1942 under the commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Strasbourg and from June 1944 was assigned to the BdS in Norway with its Oslo office .

As part of the aviation trials , Schimmel and seventeen other accused were indicted before a British military court on July 1, 1947 in Hamburg . Schimmel was accused in the proceedings "The Strasbourg Gestapo Case (Killing of Flight Lieutenant Hayter, RAF)" of having given the order in April 1944 to murder a British Royal Air Force lieutenant named Hayter, a prisoner of war . He was found guilty on September 3, 1947 and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out on February 26, 1948 in Hameln prison .

literature

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 .
Alfred Streim : The treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in the "Barbarossa case". Müller Juristischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3-8114-2281-2 .
United Nations War Crimes Commission (Ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , London, Volume 11 of the original edition from 1947 to 1949 (pdf; 5.9 MB)

Individual evidence

^ Alfred Streim: The treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in the "Barbarossa case" , Heidelberg 1981, p. 64.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 535.
↑ United Nations War Crimes Commission (ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , London 1949, Volume 11, pp. 31, 40-45.

personal data
SURNAME	Schimmel, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, SS-Sturmbannführer and Gestapo employee
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1948
Place of death	Hamelin

[1] Alfred Streim: The treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in the "Barbarossa case" , Heidelberg 1981, p. 64.

[Klee535-2] A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 535.

[UNWCC-3] United Nations War Crimes Commission (ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , London 1949, Volume 11, pp. 31, 40-45.